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We had a great day of practice today in Lipno, Czech Republic.

We have black ice that is 15-20cm thick with small bumps. (way better than Pepin - JD) JD has 1000 kronner bills in his pocket and is having a great time. Everyones equipment made it here safe with a few delays and we are looking forward to a great event.

Qualifiers start tomorrow with 180 sailors racing. Check back for more updates.

-Mike Rehe (with some help from everyone else talking my ear.)

Western Regionals Hotline recording for Thursday, announced another postponement... it's Izzy's intent to stagger the Western and Central Regionals to allow people to attend both regattas.

The snow maps show an area from about Kanas City to about Springfield IL that's not snow covered... of course there aren't many known iceboaters to call or lakes for them to check in that part of the planet...

Maybe it's time to go make some Ice!

Link to WebCam (Kamera)

A shot from the surf shop - www.lipno-windsurfing.cz thanks guys, maybe we'll see some DN's sailing past...

IDNIYRA WORLD COMMODORE, Niklas Müller-Hartburg OE 221 writes on http://www.icesailing.org/

Dear friends,

as I wrote before we were driving all night long from Rostock to Lake Lipno to check ice conditions here.

When we arrived at 06:30. Temperature was -10°C

Iceconditions: hard ice about 15cm - 20cm thick, partly bumpy. (Some areas are thinner but that doesn't concern us)

So this is the FINAL DECISION:
LAKE LIPNO; CERNA V POSUMAVI (Village); CZECH REPUBLIC.

weather forecast:

Tomorrow I fly to Germany.

I hope they take all of my stuff.. In order of importance; Trophy from last year, 16 runners, runner plank, boom and sails, wires and tools, helmet, sailing clothes, a few clothes. Lets see.... With me that makes about 500 pounds! I hope the plane gets off the ground.

Looks like we could be sailing anywhere at this time.

JD
US 4691

Another First in Minnesota Ice Sailing, A Minnesota Sailor is competing someplace in Europe in the DN World Championships beginning this weekend...

John Dennis, DN US 4691, With a Second Place last Month on Lake Pepin, MN in the North American Championships, JD is Currently ranked #2 in the World will be seeking to improve his status by just one place... Sail Fast!

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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 07:05 pm: at http://www.icesailing.org/ by IDNIYRA WORLD COMMODORE Niklas Müller-Hartburg OE 221

(OE is to KA as AUT is to AUS ) :)

Re: Lake Wawasee,Syracuse In.
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2008, 12:19:58 PM »

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Monday, Wawasee is now a 8.5 we sailed all day Saturday and found only 1 ridge ,not even in the race area. Sunday was just a little too cold and windy but really hardened up the ice. We'll see what mother nature throws at us this week and hope any snow stays away! Rick Lemberg DN4155

Original post, IDNIYRA BOARD

From the National Weather Service Forecast for Lake Minnetonka.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy and cold and blustery, with a high near 5.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -16.

Sunday: Sunny and cold, with a high near 3.

Ugh... if the numbers were only Celsius we'd be looking pleasant.

I heard a rumor that Hayward has good ice , anybody know about this??

Drove down to Milwaukee on Thursday and yes they got hosed with snow Thursday night. Looked like they had pretty good ice conditions up to that point. Pepin was snow covered but the LaCrosse area looked pretty good as well as Hudson on Friday afternoon. However, someone will need to investigate those areas much more.

4864

Were going the distance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMx4cUfidE

Sincerely,
Gavin Potts
sailordude@comcast.net

From US 5366

Lake Calhoun in MSP is 20% clear, with some junk dry snow on it.

It has been decided. We will flood part of Lake Calhoun tommorow, Saturday.

(with 5 hp, 150 gpm pump)

But with it we can pump 40m**3 of water (11,000 gallons) in an hour. This will cover an area of 160 meters x 40 meters under 6mm water, per hour.

So in three hours we will have "rained" a quarter inch on an area of 320m x 80m. (1000' x 250').

It wil be 27F in the day and 10F on Satuday night and hopefully the chance of snow is just that.

We will meet at noon on Saturday on the west side of the lake (west calhoun parkway).

The Western Region hotline reports as of Friday morning Feb 1, they again had a snow event in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Ill. The Westerns are again postponed, awaiting suitable ice.

Mike DN5369

"Macca" sends the following: The St Croix crossing the border at Hudson looks good, appears to be 60-70 % Clear Ice with shallow drifts.

Of course that means he was looking down from the bridge while driving and not standing on the ice... Which somebody needs to do.

Carpe DN

Gave Pepin an extensive look both by air and on foot 1/24 & 1/25 about 2/3 in. of new snow with an additional crust underneath, 'doesn't look good any-time soon'jw