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Green Lake, Wi provided 36 Midwest DN racers a real treat. 9.5 ice conditions, temps in the mid 30"s and winds from 9-17 MPH over 2 days on a fast surface. We tried something new as there was only one sailable course to use, the Nite Nationals was held with the DN Westerns. They had one of the largest Nite Fleets in years counting 31. The DN's had 36 racers so both Silver and Gold started together and we split out the results and trophies based on their fleet registration designation. 7 races for the DN's and 8 for the Nites on a great 1 mile course. Scott Brown repeated for the third time as Nite National Champion. He pulled off the superman of Saturday move also racing his DN in 5 races, all in 6 or 7th place! Sunday he only raced the Nite.
Dan Haney, PRO was masterful in getting both fleets off, adjusting the course and showing off his excellent work for the Nite guests! With help of a great group of assistants, Fred Stritt, Jim McCabe and George Gerhardt. Deb Whitehorse, Anna Cummins and Loretta(from home in Michigan) did prompt scoring for both the DN's and Nite Fleets. Are we lucky to have such a dedicated group of volunteers or what! Mike and Julie Jankowski are to be commended along with a few other Green Lake folks for scouting the new ice.
Congratulations to all racers for clean racing, no protests and to all the trophy winners.

2015 Western Championship - January 17 - 18, 2015

Green Lake
Green Lake, WI

Gold fleet
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Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Points
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1 US 4926 ORLEBEKE, STEVE 2 1 2 2 1 1 (DNS) 9.00
2 US 5014 ISABELL, MARK ( 4) 4 1 1 3 3 2 14.00
3 US 2545 DERUSHA, MIKE (S) 3 2 4 3 ( 5) 2 1 15.00
4 US 4824 CHRISTENSEN, MARK (S) 1 3 3 4 2 ( 5) 3 16.00
5 US 5352 HEARN, DANIEL (S) 5 5 7 8 ( 12) 6 4 35.00
6 US 4148 DIXON, TIM (S) ( 10) 7 5 6 4 8 7 37.00
7 US 5432 BLOOM, MIKE (S) 6 ( 11) 10 5 10 4 5 40.00
8 US 5298 Brown, Scott (S) 7 6 6 7 6 (DNS) DNS 50.00
9 US 445 CAVE, BOB (M) 8 9 9 ( 12) 9 11 6 52.00
10 US 4811 CHATTERTON, MARKHAM 9 ( 14) 8 9 11 10 8 55.00
11 US 294 LOENNEKE, LOUIS (GM) ( 13) 8 11 10 8 9 11 57.00
12 US 5369 MILLER, MIKE (M) 12 ( 13) 12 11 7 13 12 67.00
13 US 2360 JOHNS, PETE (GM) 14 10 13 13 13 ( 14) 13 76.00
14 US 2301 BIERMAN, DANIEL (M) ( 15) 12 14 14 14 12 10 76.00
15 US 4203 FITZGERALD, PATRICK (M) (DNS) 15 16 16 16 7 9 79.00
16 US 5414 McCormick, Greg (S) 16 16 15 15 15 (DNS) 14 91.00
17 US 5501 Orlebeke, Peter 11 DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 101.00

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 5166 Berger, Chris ( 3) 2 1 2 2 1 1 9.00
2 US 5522 METZLOFF, KYLE 2 ( 3) 2 1 1 3 2 11.00
3 US 5536 Schmitt, Matt 1 1 ( 4) 3 3 2 4 14.00
4 US 5486 Elsmo, Dave 5 5 5 4 ( 6) 4 3 26.00
5 US 5507 Barnett, Mike 4 ( 6) 3 5 5 5 5 27.00
6 US 5290 HUTTNER, PATRICK (M) 8 8 11 10 ( 12) 6 6 49.00
7 US 1313 RAST, ROBERT (M) 9 9 8 ( 9) 7 8 8 49.00
8 US 5479 Hearn, Frankie (JR) (DNS) DNS 6 6 4 7 7 50.00
9 US 4291 KALLMAN, RICK (S) 6 4 7 7 13 (DNS) DNS 57.00
10 US 4335 Gick, Dave (S) 13 (DNS) 12 11 8 9 9 62.00
11 US 5156 SOBERING, GEOFF (S) 7 11 9 8 9 (DNS) DNS 64.00
12 US 5172 BETZOLDT, GLENN (M) 10 12 (DNS) 14 11 11 11 69.00
13 US 4271 Jankowski, Julie (S) 15 10 13 13 ( 16) 10 10 71.00
14 US 4249 KAISER, RICHARD (M) 11 7 10 12 14 (DNS) DNS 74.00
15 US 4140 HOEPER, PETER (M) 16 13 15 ( 16) 15 12 12 83.00
16 H 148 Tobias, Eric 14 14 14 15 10 (DNS) DNS 87.00
17 US 3433 CUMMINS, ROBERT (M) 12 DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 112.00
18 US53971 Gruen, Tyler 17 DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 117.00
19 US 5397 Lenon, Jori (S) DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 120.00

Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds