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We set up Snowbird III yesterday for the first time since we purchased it. You can find the photos here

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/J14/

There to help were Art Teutsch, Louise Teutsch, Henry Schantz, Jay Canter, Dominic Conti, Rick Conrad and Skip Stauber. Of course Kelly and myself were there.
The people driving by must have thought we were crazy.
It went extremely well....no problems. Can't wait until we can set it up on the ice. We may have to dress warmer, but at least it won't be rainy.
Jack

MISSING ICEBOAT ALERT - POLAR BEAR

We have a missing iceboat alert. We need help. The missing boat is a Class C Pagel Mini Skeeter named Polar Bear. There were not a great deal of these boats manufactured so it should be easy to spot. It was last seen at the Lake Geneva Yacht Club about a week before the ISA on Lake Geneva, WI. We hope it was mistaken for another boat and someone will bring it back and get their own boat. It was placed among a few other boats that were not taken. We would just like the boat back with no questions asked. Please leave it where someone can find it.

Class C Pagel Mini Skeeter - Wooden construction side by side. Stained wood cockpit and sides. Blue Deck with Orange Stripe. Named Polar Bear. Relatively new trailer. New covers.

Have you ever thought of building an ice boat from scratch, including the design? Well here it is, three years in the making and finally on the work bench. What started out to be a light weight one seat Nite, evolved into a new design, ultra light, C-Skeeter. Many thanks go out to Bob Gray for his countless hours of designing and meticulous planning, and to Skip Stauber and Jack Jacobs for there knowledge and input.

Hopefully everything will go as planned and the as yet un-named GX-1 will have its maiden voyage at the North Westerns in early December, or locally if we have early ice in the Traverse City (MI) area.

Primary Location:
Best Ice - Western Region

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Primary Location:
Best Ice - Western Region

The Minnesota Ice Sailing Association has scheduled the 2005 Western Challenge Regatta for Dec 3 & 4 2005, Best ice Western Region.

More information will be posted in the two weeks leading up to the event.

Think Ice

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Folks,

The time is quickly approaching and we will soon need to retire our ice yachts to their summer location.

The real question is when will the ice actually go out on Lake Minnetonka? Here is a link that has all the dates listed and rules for official iceout

http://www.freshwater.org/iceout.html

My vote is April 22nd @ 9:30 am.

What is your guess???

Maybe our great Webmaster could put up a function where users could log their guesstimate?

Prizes,,, none but bragging rights till the ice reforms and we all meet again on the ice.

Thanks,
Will

2 DN'ers sailed buffalo on Saturday in continually building breeze, the lake gave up 6 hours of spectacular sailing.

4 DN's sailed Sunday, 12 races sailed in continually building breeze. Until the wind was too much, and ice a bit too soft, it got pretty out of control by about 2:00. Hee Yaa!

This was truely the tightest racing of the season, with most races seeing the top three boats finish within 5-6 seconds. Picking the laylines right and keeping the boat moving in the moderately sticky conditions were the keys to winning.

Western Regional Champion 4811 Markham Chatterton won the first 2 on inserts, It was pretty amazing to watched them go away, in favor of angles in race three, as he backed out of the race on the first beat.

I NEED A SET OF SARNS RUNNERS
Will consider any Sarns runners. Can pick up in MN. or WI.
erwin@fogmn.com

did anyone sail saturday? ice conditions in Ashby area? let out a shout if there's a last hurrah anywhere! thanks. dn 904

Minnesota Ice Sailing Assn will sail this weekend, starting 0900 saturday... Sturges Park, Buffalo, MN

- We're planning on grilling brats and maybe playing some bocce or croquet in the afternoon (assuming we can't be sailing when it gets too soft) US 602 claims he's bringing the brats & the beer.

- 6-8 DN's have indicated they'd be there... maybe more.

This will likely be the last hurrah for those of you that don't want to see what it looks like around Christina this time of year... it's still cold up north.

First Start 9:00 show up early the sun comes up at 6.00

It's going to be great!

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Does any one have updates the 2005 Landsailing regetta happen right now? I know Miss Wisconson and Windjet UK craft are trying to set the world speed record which currently is 116 mph.

2005 Landsailing's Americas Cup:
March 20 to 25 2005 (Sunday noon through Friday)
Location: Ivanpah Dry Lake-Primm NV

The web site doesn't have any updates
http://www.nalsa.org/

Jimmy they need a live web cam you need to start Landsailing.

We have had some good sailing the last two days. This morning and early afternoon the winds were 9-13 mph , but the snow was crispy so I only sailed for about 1/2 hr. A couple of the local club boats had started to set-up, by then the wind was a little less. With the crispy snow sailing was tough. We went to lunch waiting for the temps to rise. When we returned the snow was MUCH softer, but so were the winds. None of the 10 minute wind averages from 1pm to 5pm went over 7 mph. The wind meter ranged from 2-8 mph...So even though the snow was fine to sail the wind wasn't cooperating. I got a couple short rides in the skeeter after lunch, but the winds were mainly ranging from 3-5 mph. You couldn't hardly tell which direction the wind was coming from some of the time it was so light. The wind was considerably higher right against shore, but that doesn't do us any good it just tricks us into going out.

I'm trying to decide if/where there might be some sailing this weekend. Does Buffalo Lake look likely?

Cheers,

Geoff S.