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Laminated Ash / Pine / Ash
Coated with West 207 Special Coating (UV Resistant) and 3 coats of Spar Urethane for great durability.
Photos available.
$250 Located in Lansing, MI
Can be shipped.
sieglege@spamarrest.com 517-980-4609

Laminated Ash / Pine / Ash
Coated with West 207 Special Coating (UV Resistant) and 3 coats of Spar Urethane for great durability.
Several for sale, each with a different core thickness. Send me your weight and I will tell you the deflections. I can also custom build to your weight.
All are based on the Paul Goodwin mold and camber. Photos available.
$325 Located in Lansing, MI
Can be shipped. They are just under max length, so UPS will accept them.
sieglege@spamarrest.com 517-980-4609

At 10:00 local this ice reporter walked on Lake Phalen, St Paul, MN... and was surprised by the lack of snow cover on the ice. Presumably there are other lakes in the area in better condition.

Conditions: there is about 1.5" of light snow covering 90% of this non-motorized lake. The ice is moderately rough, it's hard without sailing to know if it's rougher snow ice/refrozen slush than Pepin was at the NA's last winter...

Lake Monona is sailable. Greg Simon and Doug Kolner checked several area lakes today.

http://iceboat.org/

Greg reports that the east end of Lake Monona rates as 8 out of 10, with over 8" of ice, and a light pebbly surface.

Greg and others will sail the lake on Wednesday. Here are the schedule of events:

Thursday, January 1: 10:00 AM 4LIYC Bloody Mary Eye Opener & Holiday Series

Friday, January 2: Tuning & Scrub racing

A decision will be made by noon on Friday whether to hold the Grand Slam Regatta in conjunction with 4LIYC club racing.

Winona Dec 26
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Fifty degrees, Drizzle

Changes snow fo Shizzle

Sail today we maybe Skizzle.

We need a good source for vinyl lettering. Hull numbers are the new thing.

Anyone?

From our newest "Ice Reporter", Urgelt, his video accurately tells the story of local conditions in the whole state Minnesota right now... Sure looks representative of everything I've seen or heard of.

Closest known boatable big ice, Springfield IL, see recent blog posts. of course, you'd have miles to go before you sleep.

a rip around with the Commodore of the IDNIYRA.

No go on the '08 National. Snowed out.

As for when the '09 will be scheduled, the pinwheel is spinning and the commodore is looking for his dart.

Browner
559

Right near the end of the video, when I round the second time I hit 63.5mph on the GPS. The video ends when I jump the small heave running thru the course..

Here's what it was like ripping around on Friday of the 2008 Western Challenge.

click on the heading to see the video

Glass whip for sale if anyone is interested.

Contact JD at 612-840-9855

So, do we have boatable ice near town or can I take a break for week 4?

Main Lake Minnetonka?
Pepin?
WBL?

Discuss!

/Adam

If you broke your boat or yourself, or if your pony threw you at the 2008 Challenge post a reply.

Seems like we had a lot of broken gear.

• John M. hurts his shoulder on a wild slide on friday
• Matt J. re-hurt his neck on friday bouncing around
• Adam K. broke his chock spinning out on friday
• Mike M. split his bow on friday
• Steve O. pulls apart the bottom skin on his new, full length boat on friday
• Tomek Z. removes both his chocks at the windward pin on saturday
• Berdnt Z. delaminated his plank on sunday
  

Photos of the 2008 Western Challenge are being posted under the images link. More are invited to post.
Check it out!
http://www.iceboating.net/image/tid/44

Mike(with a tired neck)