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no snow! more then 12" of ice! course over 1 mile!

[when I talked to JD he said ya can set a three mile beat! A fantastic sheet!"

This is the event to improve your world ranking!

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the Balance of the content in this post is dated!

Dang it.. now it's getting really serious..

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RE: DN North American Championships NOR

« Reply #8 on: Today at 04:29:56 PM »

Article by Barry Newman, Photos by Gretchen Dorian... Nice Story, it's generally accurate, if you don't count The IceMaker's long string of successfully scheduled and held Western Challenge and Fire on Ice Events.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405274870335710457504581100...

nice to see words from iceboating.net forums in a WSJ Article.

Carpe DN

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Final Results

http://www.thinkice.de/discus/messages/7/WORLDDNCHAMPIONSHIPSSWITZERLAND...

Congratulations to P114 Michal Burczynski!
Good shot of him on page 25 of the 2010 IDNIYRA Yearbook!

First Day Results
http://www.thinkice.de/discus/messages/7/WORLDDNCHAMPIONSHIPSSWITZERLAND...

Looks like it must have been a tough one out there..

The DN Westerns, scheduled for Jan 30-31 are postponed due to a conflict with the Northwest Regatta. This means all the Minnesota DN group can either go to Oshkosh for a couple races per day or stay right at home and partake in the St Paul Winter Carnival event called the Johnson Cup right on Lake Phalen. I sailed the "course" or track last year and it was really a lot of fun. This year promises to be even better. Check out the NOR posted for details. Starting at noon on Thursday, some of us will be out practicing and testing.

Here is the DN websites posting:

http://dnamerica.org/forum/index.php?topic=642.msg2281#msg2281

I just got off the phone with Ken Smith and he has decided to postpone the regatta because the weather forecast is trending to worse weather for Saturday.

Cheers,

Geoff S.
US-5156

Ken Smith just posted this on the DN forum. Location to be Green Lake Wi. It is only 4.5 hours SE of Wayzata!! I sailed on it last Sat when it was an 8. See photo posted on Jan 17.

Green Lake still looks favorable. There are two or three sheets of ice all apparently suitable for a regatta, so the nites present on the lake will not be an issue regarding the Western Regional Championships.

Whoever the nite organizers are, Joe Norton and Mike Jankowski and the Green Lake Iceboat Club (over 100 years old!) will coordinate course locations.

The Nite Nationals, scheduled for January 23-24, has been postponed.

Western Regional cancelled so Huttner and Bloom are traveling to the Centrals in Boyne, Mich.

See you there?!

DN 5432

The DN Western Regionals have been postponed again.
The was posted by Ken Smith this afternoon:

Re: Western Regional Championship POSTPONED
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:26:55 PM » Quote

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Wednesday January 13

Guess what?

The Central/Opti regatta is not a sure thing, certainly not in southern MI, and both Lake Geneva and Green Lake are EXCELLENT, but not expected to be quite enough ice for the ISA or for stern-steerers. Three to four inches of black, smooth ice now. The forecast is also excellent with not enough warm to thin the lakes, not enough cold to grow much ice, but enough warm to sail comfortably, and no significant snow predicted.

SO STAY TUNED.

The Western Region Championships are upcoming January 9-10

We will be looking for ice reports starting a week from today, on January 5 and each day following. Please e-mail or call me at kendnsmith@yahoo.com 630-240-2048 if you have ice. Eastern MN or Wisconsin would be great!

Ken Smith
Western Rear Commodore

We would like to have reports for Buffalo, Waconia, White Bear, Hudson, and Pepin by noon on Thursday. This is going to be a challenge so please help if you can. Post reports here or call 612 840 9855

JD

Ice! It'll be there.

We've had several teaser ice reports where lakes have substantially frozen and again thawed.

The forecast is for colder weather starting about now thru the Great Western Challenge Regatta.

Look forward to hearing from ice scouts as soon as Friday this week, It'll be there, and of course... it's gonna be Epic.

Carpe DN
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2009 Western Challenge

TURN IT UP LOUD!