Western Challenge Race Results 2013

La Crosse, Wisconsin
December 7 - 8, 2013

Sherry, Sherry, & Sherry Congratulations to Mr Ron Sherry for a strong showing on Sunday in the light air. He came back to win the regatta and at the same time he had a great time getting his boys out on the ice for an epic father son weekend.

Silver Fleet went to our man in Madison, Dave Elsmo! I'm sure his enthusiasm for iceboating, and his role as college sailing coach, has really ignited the college iceboating scene around the four lakes area.

Thanks to everybody for coming together and getting the four races for each fleet in. They had to be run under tight time limits. Saturday we barely got the racing in before the sun went behind the bluffs. On Sunday we had to get started as early as possible as the wind was going light and the blizzard was fast approaching for the drive home. Thanks to everybody working as a team, we all had some nice racing.

Gold Fleet


Pos     Sail       Name                    R1     R2      R3      R4      Points
---     ----       ---------               ---    ---     ---     ---     ------
1       US 44      Ronald J Sherry         1      6       1       1       9
2       US 4691    John W Dennis           2      3       2       4       11
3       US 4824    Mark R Christensen      8      5       3       2       18
4       US 5224    James A Thieler         3      2       13      6       24
5       US 4487    Chad Atkins             5      1       8       10      24
6       US 4926    Steve Orlebeke          6      7       9       3       25
7       H  467     Dideric van Riemsdijk   4      10      4       11      29
8       US 5014    Mark L Isabell          9      4       5       18      36
9       US 4       Griffin Sherry          7      8       14      17      46
10      US 5432    Mike Bloom              16     21      6       7       50
11      S  713     Rickard Gustring        11     12      19      9       51
12      US 5469    Oliver Moore            24     13      11      5       53
13      US 5214    Jim McDonagh            17     11      10      22      60
14      KC 4536    Bob Crinion             14     19      16      12      61
15      US 4257    Jim C Gluek             DNS    9       17      8       62
16      US 602     Tom Meyer               20     16      12      16      64
17      US 4961    John P Davenport        13     18      15      19      65
18      US 4775    Eben M Whitcomb III     12     24      22      13      71
19      US 5298    Scott Brown             10     20      DNS     14      72
20      US 4811    Markham G Chatterton    DNS    14      7      DNS      77
21      KC 5514    John Curtis             15     23      23      20      81
22      US 2545    Michael P Derusha       23     22      20      21      86
23      US 5414    Wes Wilcox              18     17      DNS    DNS      91
24      US 5369    Mike Miller             DNS    DNS     21      15      92
25      US 5352    Daniel F. Hearn         21     15      DNS    DNS      92
26      US 3271    Mike Jankowski          22     25      18     DNS      93
27      US 2360    Pete Johns              19     DNS     DNS    DNS      103

Silver Fleet

Pos     Sail       Name                 R1     R2      R3      R4      Points
---     ----       ---------            ---    ---     ---     ---     ------
1       US 5486    Dave Elsmo           2      1       5       8       16
2       US 5508    Tim Sugar            1      6       6       5       18
3       US 5506    Charlie Hurd         3      7       8       1       19
4       US 5507    Mike Barnett         5      3       11      4       23
5       US 5536    Matt Schmidt         4      4       10      10      28
6       US 5166    Chris Berger         15     13      1       2       31
7       US 4257    Dave Gluek           16     9       3       3       31
8       US 5522    Kyle E Metzloff      7      5       14      9       35
9       US 1277    Hal K Bowman         11     16      4       6       37
10      R  166     Valeriy Dichenko     8      2       15      21      46
11      KC 3786    Warren C Nethercote  13     12      13      11      49
12      US 5479    Frankie Hearn        6      8       18      19      51
13      US 5519    Scott Earnest        9      DNS     2       7       57
14      US 5050    Tim Oelschlager      18     10      17      15      60
15      US 824     Andy Foster          14     11      20      16      61
16      C  49      TJ Sherry            17     17      16      20      70
17      KC 5515    Jim Foster           19     19      DNS     17      94
18      US 4140    Peter J Hoeper       DNS     DNS    9       12      100
19      US 4602    David L Kickhafer    DNS     DNS    7       14      100
20      US 5391    Tom Verburgt         DNS     DNS    12      13      103
21      US 5158    John A Bushey        10     15      DNS    DNS      103
22      US 5414    Wes Wilcox           21     14      DNS    DNS      113
23      US 4271    Julie Jankowski      20     18      DNS    DNS      116
24      US         Matthew Clifford     22     20      DNS    DNS      120
25      US 4203    Patrick J Fitzgerald DNS    DNS      22     22      122
26      US 2360    Pete Johns           12     DNS     DNS    DNS      129
27      US 5352    Team Madison Youth   DNS    DNS     DNS     18      135
28      US 3433    Robert L Cummins     DNS    DNS      19    DNS      136
29      US 5076    James Olson          DNS    DNS      21    DNS      138
30      US 5397    Jori Lenon           DNS    DNS     DNS     23      140
30      US                              23     DNS     DNS    DNS      140
31      US 5156    Geoff Sobering       DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156
32      US 5290    Patrick Huttner      DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156
33      US 5169    Pat Dillon           DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156
34      US 5464    Bruce Wegger         DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156
35      P  71      Leszek Ziólkowski    DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156
36      US 5509    Hugh Sugar           DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156
37      US 4490    Peter A Lundt        DNS    DNS     DNS    DNS      156

Comments

thanks for your patience

The delay in getting the results posted was due to the fact that I was programming the iphone app to score the races. I used this chance to speed up the data entry user interface, debug the tie routine, and create the share display to email out the results.

If you see any problems, please let me know. I'm happy to change the DNS's to DNF or whatever else is not correct.

Sounds great that your app

Sounds great that your app works. Chapeau.
Questions:
Is the result list postet by the app?
Is there a chance to port the app to Android too?
G4odie

answers

I use the built in share widget that you see on the share a photo, for example.

It pulls up the email and the copy and paste share icon and I just pass the widget the results in a text string (I used tabs for field breaks).

Evidently I can do other types of data so I guess it could be html.

Then the user fills out the email with the race results in the body of the email. Then I pasted that email into the website with pre tags.

Does that make sense?

I hope to have it publish the results straight into the Yearbook for the Continental Regattas.

As for the Android. I use the RESTKIT library to handle the data caching. I don't think there is the same library for android, but for what we are doing there probably is something like or similar. Once we get the server side working and the details hammered out, maybe someone will take that on. But I'd have to say, at this point, no plans for Android. It will work on an ipod touch or an older iphone.

Jim, thank you for doing a

Jim, thank you for doing a great job!

Think Ice,

Dideric H467

you did all the work!

Thank you for coming, well, almost, into Minnesota. You could see Minnesota from the race course. So that counts.

You and everybody that travelled so far to come and participate was really an inspiration for me.

Too bad we didn't get in that last race. I could have used a throw out more then most.