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The DN Westerns, scheduled for Jan 30-31 are postponed due to a conflict with the Northwest Regatta. This means all the Minnesota DN group can either go to Oshkosh for a couple races per day or stay right at home and partake in the St Paul Winter Carnival event called the Johnson Cup right on Lake Phalen. I sailed the "course" or track last year and it was really a lot of fun. This year promises to be even better. Check out the NOR posted for details. Starting at noon on Thursday, some of us will be out practicing and testing.

Here is the DN websites posting:

The full Notice of Exhibition Event is published here at this link:

http://www.iceboating.net/node/2978

Four to six DNs raced the west end of Green Lake, WI on Friday, (Jan 22). Ice was about 8" thick and very fast.

Browner

http://dnamerica.org/forum/index.php?topic=642.msg2281#msg2281

I just got off the phone with Ken Smith and he has decided to postpone the regatta because the weather forecast is trending to worse weather for Saturday.

Cheers,

Geoff S.
US-5156

Ken Smith just posted this on the DN forum. Location to be Green Lake Wi. It is only 4.5 hours SE of Wayzata!! I sailed on it last Sat when it was an 8. See photo posted on Jan 17.

Green Lake still looks favorable. There are two or three sheets of ice all apparently suitable for a regatta, so the nites present on the lake will not be an issue regarding the Western Regional Championships.

Whoever the nite organizers are, Joe Norton and Mike Jankowski and the Green Lake Iceboat Club (over 100 years old!) will coordinate course locations.

The Nite Nationals, scheduled for January 23-24, has been postponed.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/157901/publisher_ID/36/

you know what I do...

4695

I have 440C blades for a freeskate already made that Bill Sarns did for me back in the day. Scott Root 440-244-0738 and that I have
.250 x 2"x 17"

jackieandscott01@yahoo.com,

I just returned from a one day turn-around drive to the best ice in the Midwest! Green Lake Wi was only a 4.5 hour drive from Wayzata, MN. Sailed 5 hours with at least 10 scrub races twice around on at least a mile course! The ice is slightly pebbley black ice, 5-6 inches thick, with no ridges or holes!

Western Regional cancelled so Huttner and Bloom are traveling to the Centrals in Boyne, Mich.

See you there?!

DN 5432

The DN Western Regionals have been postponed again.
The was posted by Ken Smith this afternoon:

Re: Western Regional Championship POSTPONED
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:26:55 PM » Quote

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Wednesday January 13

I am in the second and currently most successful year of developing a three runner (single in the back) ice wind surfer. I started with the usual hot rolled steel and now want to make some real runners for it (well I am sailing on a salt pond so maybe want is not the correct word). I scaled down what I saw you DN folks doing and came up with 2" x 3/16 runners these are working well and I want to repeat them in 440C every internet search comes up empty. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Winterhawk

On the hard Salty stuff in RI

Guess what?

The Central/Opti regatta is not a sure thing, certainly not in southern MI, and both Lake Geneva and Green Lake are EXCELLENT, but not expected to be quite enough ice for the ISA or for stern-steerers. Three to four inches of black, smooth ice now. The forecast is also excellent with not enough warm to thin the lakes, not enough cold to grow much ice, but enough warm to sail comfortably, and no significant snow predicted.

SO STAY TUNED.

Going to leave work early (2ish) and try to sail in the Bayport area.
Yesterday the River had an inch of snow, musta sogged up and froze.
darn snow today is gonna make it iffy, but it's worth a try; at least till it drifts.
Counting on good wind.

Kent

Local friends of iceboating report 1/2" of existing snow cover, with 1.5" of newly fallen powder snow at sunrise this morning...

Snow bands continue,

We started driving down in heavy traffic and 1/4-1/2" an hour snowfall,

Winds expected to exceed 25 mph

Consensus, the wind will be such a determining factor that no accurate assessment of what Saturday's ice will be this morning. This trip is a fools errand, and while others might disagree, fools we are not. Trip abandoned in progress.