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Now we are getting spammers... posting to our forums... arrgh..

I'll have to get going on the new 4.5 version and the anti-spammer stuff.. which can't possible work very well..

Or I could allow postings by registered users only. that's a little extreme..

hmmm.. maybe a firewall rule to block ip's from spammers.. or something more aggressive...

Looks like the spam post came from india.. I could block all of india.. but then I'd be shutting off the access for the all the iceboaters in india..

I've heard of this, but now i've got to actually deal with it..

ps.

I'm going to lake christina this saturday.. should be a hoot at the coot..

Tring to find lumber here in the Twin Cities is harder than I thought. Called several lumber yards and saw mills and can't find lumber to suit the construction of my new DN hull.

I have heard that people are substituting Bass for Sitka Spruce. Any ideas where to find lumber long enough for the task at hand, 2 @ 1"x8"x14' & one for the stringer 1"x3"x12.5'

William

in the gear:shop photo gallery..

the ones named img_****
http://iceboating.net/image/tid/21

I'll let the pictures do the talking and post something later..

-jim

this sucks.. i haven't screwed up mixing west epoxy for years and now i've managed to put two coats of gooey crap on the corners of my boat (and the extended cockpit).. at least it isn't over the whole boat.. looks like my pumps went bad.. arrghh.. i think you always have to buy new product at the start of any project, after you let the epoxy sit around.. arrrghh

The hull for "Trust Me" is pretty much done (just needing paint and hardware), so last night we weighed it. What a change! When the boat came into the shop last year it came in at a hefty 170+ lbs. Today it weighs 126!

Cheers,

Geoff S.

How did I ever get involvd with this project? As with many things, it's a long story...

Tuesday night I got the second layer of plywood in the cockpit floor and was able to really see how well I fit into the cockpit:

In the past few year I've built a couple of masts.
I've used a mast and a clam shell mold made from that mast laying the glass then pressing the mast into the shell.
This year I have some other guys intersted in building a few masts. We just completed the first 2 halves. We now just have to trim up and start with loft tube placement. The few masts that I've made have not broken but also don't bend like I want them too. The lay up this time was about 6 layers of biaxle glass. The halves bend well, but the halves have always bent well at this stage. Once glued the bend changes.

I was thinking for my mast to try: placing uni-directional carbon from the tip of the mast to 2 feet past the hound to make it stiffer and force the bottom to pop.

Ever since I got burned at the NAs last year by aligning my runners with an out of whack set of aligners, I've been thinking about how to align my chocks without relying on a "gold standard" fixture. Optically seems to be the only way to go to align things from "first principles".

Wow, I'm back at work and I don't like it at all.

Sailed Monday and Tuesday (March 22 & 23, 2004) on Elk Lake, which was great. It was a little depressing to take the boat down yesterday. The sun was bright, temp 40+, and the wind died about 3pm. I Was able to get two ladies from church that wanted to sail out on the ice before lunch. The winds were laying down but were holding at about 8 mph. The gals had the time of their lives, even got some great hikes. Jackie is from Minn. and was last on a boat about 50 years ago (home made). Joyce (wife of the Doctor that got me into this sport) has never been on an ice boat and damn near hugged me to death when it was over. She was really thrilled, especially when the runner climbed over her head.

Life is to short not to be lived and enjoyed to the fullest. To reach for that fullness, at this time of year, I think ice, I pray for ice and I live ice.

When a club hosts a regatta, it involves a fair amount of planning, driving, time, and worry. We do it because we love our sport and want our fellow ice boaters to be able to share the rewards with us. We take our charge seriously and work tirelessly to find the best ice, the best location, and hopefully, the best weather. When things go South and an event has to be postponed, or worse yet cancelled, it is not only a big disappointment to the sponsoring club, but to a whole lot of other folks that were looking forward to sailing.

Iceboating.net:
    http://www.iceboating.net
(of course!)

Iceboat.org - 4 Lakes Ice Yacht Club:
    http://www.iceboat.org

DN Bulletin Board:
    http://cerebus.winsite.com/laser/DNboard/DNmain.html

Yahoo! Iceboating Group:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceBoating/

MSN Landsailer and Iceboat Design and Construction Group:
    http://groups.msn.com/LandsailerandIceboatdesignandconstruction

Tom Speer's Home-Page:
    http://www.tspeer.com/

While I love my DN, here in the 4-Lakes club the Renegade is king (there are typically more than 20 boats on the line for a club race). So, last summer I bought a "fixer upper" Renegade. The original hope was to have it ready for the 03-04 season, but my day-job and other stuff happened and it's still sitting Jim Nordahus' shop as a work-in-progress. I'll try and keep a running commentary on the work as the boat progresses to sailable condition.

new I mean old pictures found
2000 worlds and NAs

www.totalhuntingsystems.com
toggle down on left frame
click on sports page
then Ice Boat Pictures.

I raced in the DN North American Regatta for the first time this year. I thought I'd share the experience. Originally, this was a in a combination of forward and reverse time-sequence; I edited the pieces into chronological order.

For some more of my ramblings (and a few photos), check the web page created by Debbie Whitehorse (the 4-Lakes Ice Yacht Club's webmaster) from e-mailed reports and photos during the regatta:

http://iceboat.org/images/03-04/dnna/dnna.htm

(Thanks Debbie!)