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What a great display of iceboating. This year we saw so many great iceboats. Many we havent seen in a while. Congratulation everyone for being part of it. Thanks go out to Greg Simon and the Four lakes club for their hard work. Greg ran the racing for three very long days. Thank you Greg! Thank you Deb for the constant news feed, scoring and everything you do. Thanks to the Green lake club for all of their hard work. Thank you Joe for checking the ice. Thank you Julie, sorry we missed the party Friday night.

Karol Jablonski aka "King Karol" racing P-36 won the 2013 European Championships sailed on Siemianówka lake on the Polish / Ukrainian border. Jablonski, the reigning champion, won 4 of the six races. Tomas Zakrewski P-55 was 2nd and Peter Hamrak M-53 (Hungry) finished 3rd.
Full results at http://www.eissegeln.de/docs/pdf/Euro2013-4DayStanding.pdf

Get your butt, er, boat to Green Lake, Wisc. The regatta starts Friday, March 15, 2013, at 10am. Expect the DN class to start first.

For Sale: is a Skimmer 45, yellow metal tube frame. Everything ready and needed to sail; Frame, blades, sail, mast. Very Fun smaller ice boat. call after 5:30 pm 605-237-8607 or text anytime. or just reply here. $800.00 firm
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Keep checking the 4LIYC website @ http://www.iceboat.org for updates about the Northwest Ice Yacht Association Annual Regatta. At present, there is no sailable ice but, because it is so late in the season, the regatta will be called on every week with the hope of ice conditions improving enough to hold the regatta.
Think Ice!

Central Lakes Rear Commodore Kent Baker reoprts the Central Lakes Regional Championship Regatta tentatively scheduled for February 23-24, 2013 has been POSTPONED .

See the DN bulliten board @ http://dnamerica.org/forum for more information.

The Nite National 2013 Championship Regatta has been called ON for Green Lake, WI., for the weekend of Feb 16 & 17, 2013. See the 4LIYC web site @ http://www.iceboat.org for more details along with the Notice of Race (NOR), Sailing Instructions and Registration form.

White fronted geese have entered SE Iowa, which has been a harbinger of the death of the ice season in these parts. Nice while it lasted. The snow maps show NW Iowa as clear and the ice fishing shanties are still up. Clear Lake, Ia. is still sucking up vehicles.

Just cold, very cold.

I didn't do so well. I was cold and wet!

But my cool Drift HD Ghost performed great all week. Peter Crawford of Penalty Box Productions told me it was the bomb. It was freezing cold with ice pellets, rain, slush, and mounted on the runner blank and didn't miss a beat. The battery lasted all day, even when it was 4 degrees F. amazing! I used the wrist remote control and with the colored LCD it worked really good. I recommend the Drift HD Ghost. It worked good in extreme winter conditions.

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John "JD" Dennis sailing us4691 totally dominated the 2013 North American Championships with three bullets!!!
The three race regatta was sailed in light air on snow coved Lake Pepin in Lake City, MN.

This is JD's second victory at the North American Championship regatta. His first victory came in 2004 at Sandusky Ohio. JD is also the only Minnesota sailor ever to win the NA's.

CONGRATULATIONS JD!!!!

Gold fleet
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Hi folks,
I'm hoping to stir up some interest for anyone who has a boat they can put on a trailer... And wants to come sailing on Lake of the Woods, 2hrs north of the boarder. We have a long standing regatta that traditionally has had 40 plus Minnesotan boats participating, but lately those numbers have dwindled down to less than 10. Here's a bit of info about the regatta, which has both highly competitive racing divisions, and an open cruising division for those wanting to take it a bit easy... My first regatta I was only 4 months old!

For sale: Henderson Speed Suit available at NA's.
SOLD!

Link to WCCO's written article and video: http://goo.gl/VFg3B.

This is the first time in its 40 years that the DN Iceboating World Championship has ever come to Minnesota. At this championship people will race for the Gold Cup and then for the North American Championship.

“We have over 100 competitors from 9 countries,” the DN Class Secretary, Jim McDonagh, said. “We’ll be racing till we get 7 races in, in each fleet.”

Regatta complete. Polish sailors take first and second. J.D is third. Ron Sherry fourth. The Doctor is 10th.