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1 P- 36 Jablonski, Karol 2 1 7 1 1 5 [52/DNS]
2 P- 114 Burczynski, Michal 11 2 1 10 [28] 9 1
3 P- 55 Zakrzewski, Tomasz [22] 6 9 11 2 6 8
4 C- 6 Vooremaa, Vaiko 13 12 [18] 2 4 4 9
5 G- 679 Schneider, Martin-Björn 1 11 13 5 [35] 2 16
20 US- 5224 Thieler, James [36] 35 23 23 7 15 3
24 US- 44 Sherry, Ronald 26 3 19 22 30 18 [31]
36 US- 5469 Moore, Oliver 40 30 39 [47] 20 41 19

Race Venus: Haapsalu, Estonia

Regatta is complete. Rumor has it that Karol Jablonski, aka "King Karol" reigns supreme. I will post results when I get them.

Here is a brief update from Estonia:
"03/05/2014
Today we had a really beautiful weather, bright sun, not really shifty wind of 3-4 m/s speed. In those great conditions we were able to sail 4 races for fleets A and C, plus 3 races for fleet B, so in the end we have done all planed races for Gold fleet! Now we are waiting for the protest to end...."

Race Venue: Haapsalu, Estonia. Day 3 Results: Gold Fleet
1 P- 36 Jablonski, Karol 2 1 7
2 P- 114 Burczynski, Michal 11 2 1
3 G- 679 Schneider, Martin-Björn 1 11 13
15 US- 44 Sherry, Ronald 26 3 19
34 US- 5224 Thieler, James 36 35 23
40 US- 5469 Moore, Oliver 40 30 39

Three races in Gold, two each in Silver and Bronze.
More info: http://idniyra.eu/?p=2079
Results: http://idniyra.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/World-Championships-2014-Se...

Day 2: Fog. No racing.

Race Venue: Haapsalu, Estonia

Day 1: Only one Bronze fleet race completed due to poor visibility and weather conditions. The race was protested and thrown out.

Day 2: No racing due to fog.

Here is a brief report from Oliver Moore, NEIYC, who is competing in the 2014 DN Worlds in Estonia:

"Racing canceled today after one qualifier race that I think got protested because you couldn't see the weather mark. Deb Whitehorse is posting lots of updates on the IDNIYRA page for those who want to follow along at home."

Despite this update, now that the Sailors are on the ice I doubt we will hear much until the regatta is over.

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Mark "Doctor" Christensen (US 4824) did the Minnesota crowd proud at the 2014 DN North American Championships.

The regatta was a one day shoot out held on Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, New York. The four race event featured incredibly smooth 4 day old black ice covered with hoar frost, a huge course and winds in the 18 to 25 range. The 2nd day of racing was cancelled due to sustained winds of 35 mph!!!

The Doctor sailed a consistent 3-3-2-4 but could not best Ron Sherry (sailing his blue US 44). Ron narrowly won the NA's crown beating the Doctor by just one point.

Big Day….
Miracles do happen- And the weatherman ain’t always right!

Yesterday was supposed to be light and fickle but at about 1030 the breeze shifted south and increased…. And increased some more…. And then increased a little more just for kicks.

Full-on, heads-up sailing was the order if the day- Four races sailed, each one in a bit more breeze, hoar frost blowing around, fast and furious all day-

The gangs all in NY and they got the mini-qualifier in!

That's a great start to what's been a difficult regatta.

Silver fleet
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Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 Points
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1 US 4110 MILBANK, JOHN (S) 1 1.00
2 US 5350 Truesdell, Peter (S) 2 2.00
3 US 5482 Merrill, Doug 3 3.00
4 US 5022 Adams, Ed 4 4.00

Dang it.

We got a lot of snow in just a few hours. It started snowing hard at 9:00am, just like they said, and then it let up a little and now it's been snowing all day. There's probably 4" of snow. It seems light but it's really not.
Good thing some of the most proactive iceboaters from the Minnesota group are heading down to north west IOWA to save the day. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

I guess Lake Champlain and Montreal have a bad forecast now, Lake Geneva gets a 'not possible'. Lakes were checked further south but were also found to be no good.

Just a reminder that official announcements for the DN North Americans are being posted at ice.idniyra.org. Just click on the "hotline" link and it will take you to the most current update. (McD did a nice job .. . . again.)

Next update scheduled for 8 PM tonight (Thursday).

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