iceboating.net Minnesota Ice Sailing Association

That was a great regatta. Some really good racing. With light, shifty wind and fast ice with some hazards it was really fun iceboat racing. The temps were down around, I'm not sure but 11 to 14 F.

Saturday we got in three races in the Ice Opti, Silver and Gold Fleets before the PRO called it a day. It was cold and there was some decent wind all day long. Some of the top racers were using their speed sails.

On Sunday the weather was calling for light and variable but there was a consistent direction and more then enough wind to make the time limits. Sunday it seemed like the ice was a bit bumpier, either because we were in another location or the cold night.

The Minnesota Ice Sailing Association was well represented and took home both the Silver Fleet and Gold Fleet Trophies.

The Silver Skate was awarded to Mike Bloom, after a close battle with Terry Erwin, both from Minnesota. What does it take to win the Silver Skate?... it might take sailing two laps with out a glove..

JD successfully defended his trophy from the hard charging Peewaukee Ice Sailing Squadron(PISS) and Central Region Racer John Harper.

It was tighter Racing at the top of the gold fleet then the results show, as the lead changed places on many of the laps. Mark Christensen got faster as the day went by on Saturday and won a race. The Minnesota Ice Sailing Association had five members in the top 10 (4691, 4824, 5214, 602, 4811) and two more members are battling for the Dick Hatfield Silver Skate Trophy in the Silver Fleet. The club seems to be doing great.

Here's the link to the Official Results

and the results copied below..

Gold fleet
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Pos    Sail#         Name     Race>     1    2    3    4    5    6    7  Points
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  1   US 4691  DENNIS, JOHN     	2    1 (  3)   1    1    1    1    7.00
  2   US 4926  ORLEBEKE, STEVE		3    2    2    2 (  5)   2    3   14.00
  3   US   60  HARPER, JOHN (S)		1    3 (  4)   3    2    4    4   17.00
  4   US 5014  ISABELL, MARK		4    6    6 (  6)   3    3    2   24.00
  5   US 4824  CHRISTENSEN, MARK	6    4    1    4 (  6)   6    6   27.00
  6   US 2545  DERUSHA, MIKE		5    5    5 (DNF)   4    5   12   36.00
  7   US 5214  MCDONAGH, JIM		9    7    7 ( 11)   9    7    5   44.00
  8   US  602  MEYER, TOM (M)		8    8   11    8 ( 13)   9    9   53.00
  9   US 4811  CHATTERTON, MARKHAM	7 (DNF)  10    9    8   10   11   55.00
 10   US  294  LOENNEKE, LOUIS (M)	10   10   9 ( 16)   7   13   10   59.00
 11   US 4961  DAVENPORT, JOHN		DNF(DNF)DNF    7   10    8    7   76.00
 12   US 4868  RICHARDS, JULIE (S)	(17) 17  16    5   12   15   13   78.00
 13   US 2360  JOHNS, PETE (M)		16   15  15   13   14 ( 16)   8   81.00
 14   US 5352  HEARN, DANIEL		11   9   8   DNF (DNF)  11  DNF   83.00
 15   US  445  CAVE, BOB (S)		(18) 11  14   14   16   14   14   83.00
 16   US 2301  BIERMAN, DANIEL (S)	15   13  12 ( 18)  17   12   16   85.00
 17   US 4882  WOLLAM, RICHARD (M)	12   12  13   17 ( 18)  17   17   88.00
 18   US 3271  JANKOWSKI, MIKE (S)	14   14 (DNF) 12   15   18   18   91.00
 19   US 2170  CREIGH, JOHN (M)		(DNF)DNF DNF  10   11   19   15   99.00
 20   US 4137  SMITH, JR.,KEN (S)	19   16  17   15   19   20 (DNF) 106.00
 21   US 5414  WILCOX, WES (S)		13  DNF  DNF (DNF) DNF  DNF  DNF 123.00

Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds




Silver fleet
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Pos    Sail#        Name      Race>     1    2    3    4    5    6    7  Points
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  1   US 5432    BLOOM,    MIKE (S)    1  (  4)   3    2    1    1    1    9.00
  2   US  244    ERWIN,   TERRY (S)     2    2    1    1    2    2 (  3)  10.00
  3   US 1313     RAST,  ROBERT (S)     6    8    4 (  9)   6    4    5   33.00
  4   US  781   NORTON,     JOE (S)  ( 10)   9    9    3    3    5    4   33.00
  5   US 5455    Perce,        Hyde  ( 13)  12    8    4    8    3    2   37.00
  6   US 5156   SOBERING,   GEOFF       4    3 ( 18)   7    9    8    6   37.00
  7   US  246    ERWIN,  GRAHAM (J)     5    6    6 ( 12)  10    9    7   43.00
  8   US 4654  GRAY,  ROBERT (M)        9   10    7    6    4   10 (DNF)  46.00
  9   US 5290  HUTTNER, PATRICK (S)    11 ( 14)  11    5    7    6    9   49.00
 10   US 3433  CUMMINS,  ROBERT (M)     7    7   10    8 ( 11)  11    8   51.00
 11   US  805    PEGEL,    JANE (M)  ( 14)  13   12   10    5    7   10   57.00
 12   US 5391 VERBURGT,         TOM     3    1    5  DNF (DNF) DNF  DNF   75.00
 13   US 4140   HOEPER,   PETER (S)  ( 15)  15   14   11   12   12   12   76.00
 14   US  360 METZLOFF,        KYLE     8    5    2  DNF (DNF) DNF  DNF   81.00
 15   US 4804   Catlin,       Stece    16   16 ( 17)  15   15   14   13   89.00
 16   US 5472    Ogura,         Nik    17   17   16   14   14   15 (DNF)  93.00
 17   US 2963    Lynch,        Neal   DNF  DNF (DNF)  13   13   13   11   94.00
 18   US  905    PEGEL,   SUSAN (S)    12   11   13  DNF (DNF) DNF  DNF  102.00
 19   US 4926      unk,         unk   DNF  DNF   15 (DNF) DNF  DNF  DNF  125.00
 20   US 5352    Hearn,     Frankie  (DNF) DNF  DNF   16  DNF  DNF  DNF  126.00