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Just spoke with Will and Jimmy the location of the Gold Cup is going to be moved because of deep snow drifts. The drifts are deep enough to stop an ice boat in its tracks several boats flipped over at speed this moring when hitting snow drifts.

Possible new venues: Madision or Lake Pepin (SteveK is checking out Pepin)

Andy

Lake Winnebago, WI
28deg F
15-25mph winds

pretty good sized snow drifts..

we are back online

http://iceboating.net/live/index.html

looks like the race committe isn't setting up a course.. yet..

Will and Jimmy are going to walk around the pit area with the live web cam and take shots of all the cool boats. Keep refreshing your browser to see the photos.
Andy

Racing has been postponed until Noon.

The race committe reported sustained 25mph out on the ice. It's a little to fast for the condition of the ice, it's pretty bumpy.. so they say.. I still haven't been out..

us45 went out for a ride and gave us a little show... up.. up.. and over...
he's okay...

Quite a number of the fleet are heading out for a little rip anyway.

more to follow..

http://iceboating.net/live/index.html

how's the cam working?

Here is the link to live web cam which I left out before.

http://iceboating.net/live/index.html

Racing today (per Jimmy and Will):
One Bronze fleet race this morning top 12 move up to Silver fleet. One Silver fleet race top 12 move up to Gold fleet. Gold fleet racing after that.
I will post more when I hear something from the regatta.

Andy

I just spoke to Jimmy (U5214) and Will and they are setting up the web cam as I am typing this message.

Check out the live shots of the Gold Cup!!!!!

Go Jimmy and Will Dog!!!!!!!!!!

Andy

The Opening Ceremonies for the 2005 Gold Cup got underway on Lake Winnebago with the temps still in the negative (-2F).

8 different contries were represented and the top skipper from each country were introduced.

Racing was called off today and the next skippers meeting is set at 9:00am tuesday morning, at the race HQ Hotel.

120 boats have been registerd. 50 in the gold, 35 in silver, 35 in bronze.

The top 12 skippers from the bronze and silver will qualify up.

Tomorrow it's set to blow snot.. we'll see...

cold on winnebago
dnus5214

Experimental live feed from the Opening Ceremonies...

http://iceboating.net/live/index.html

cut and pasted from idniyra bbs
http://cerebus.winsite.com/laser/DNboard/mesgRegat/545.html

Posted by: John Davenport on January 15, 2005 at 20:17:26:

The Primary site for the GC & NA’s is Lake Winnebago out of Oshkosh,WI.

Hwy 41 North past Fond Du Lac.
Exit 116 to all hotels.

HQ is at the Hawthorne 920-303-1133 left ofer bridge and left again, on right.
Hilton Garden 920-966-1300, right and right again on 20th.
Americinn 920-232-0300, accross from Hilton.

Registration is 5pm-9pm Sunday at the Hilton Garden in the lounge.

ON THE ROAD call-in: call hilton (920-966-1300), ask for registration in bar.

From the DN Bulletin Board: http://cerebus.winsite.com/laser/DNboard/mesgRegat/544.html

Posted by: John Davenport on January 13, 2005 at 22:09:09:

After the last miracle Zamboni came through yesterday, many lakes in WI are now clear of snow. The new Primary site for the GC & NA's is Lake Winnebago out of Oshkosh,WI.

Place	Last	First			R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Total	Tot w/to
													
1	Loomis	John	S	4923	1	2	4	1	1	1	2	12	8
2	Pegel	Jane	M	805	5	1	1	2	2	6	3	20	14
3	Gluek	Jim		4257	2	3	3	3	4	2	1	18	14
4	Kiefer	Mark		4695	8	4	2	4	5	4	6	33	25
5	Bowman	Hal		1277	3	5	14	5	7	3	7	44	30
6	Hoeper	Peter		4140	4	7	6	7	3	5	5	37	30
7	Rast	Bob		1313	7	6	7	9	8	7	4	48	39
8	Kennedy	Steve		824	9	8	5	8	6	10	10	56	46
9	Renji	Clinton		581	15	9	10	6	9	9	8	66	51
10	Miller 	Mike		3559	10	10	11	10	10	DNF	12	81	63
14	Pegel	Susie		905	6	11	12	13	12	11	DNS	83	65
11	Tetzloff	Byron		5251	14	14	9	14	11	12	9	82	69
12	Linsner	Art		4436	11	12	8	DNF	14	13	13	89	71
13	Sobering	Geoff		5156	12	13	DNF	11	13	14	11	92	74
15	Jankowski	Stefan	J	5271	13	DNF	DNS	15	15	8	14	101	83
16	Creigh	John		2170	DNF	15	13	12	16	DNS	DNS	110	92
17	Huberty	Brian		4864	16	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	124	106

I just called the hotline and registration has been moved back to sunday.

The deep freeze that is forcasted for thur-fri-sat-sun is the reasoning behind the one day postponement.

That means registration now starts at 5:00pm on Sunday not Saturday.

Lake Pepin is still the primary site.

Lake City, Mn
Lake Pepin, Mississippi River

It was a great location on a huge sheet of ice nestled in the Mississippi river basin. There is a long history of iceboating on Lake Pepin so it had a great feel to it and there are large bluffs on both sides that make for nice scenery. The bluffs also effect the wind.

The race committee did a great job setting up the course, promptly moving the mark when the wind shifted on Saturday, and efficiently scored all the races. All the racers really appreciated their effort.

We had 21 boats in the gold fleet and 17 boats in the silver fleet.

from the idniyra bbs
Posted by: John Davenport on January 06, 2005 at 18:46:26:

The 2005 Western Regional Championship Regatta has been called "ON" for this weekend, Jan 8th & 9th on "Lake Pepin" sailing out of Lake City, MN. This huge lake only received 0.5" of snow from the last storm and was clear befor that. It was sailed Sunday and today. Hotel info and directions to the launch site to follow...