From Warsaw
This was on the Internet this morning… . Makes me want to get one last weekend of sailing in even more. And also has me excited about the upcoming summer sailing season. Hopefully the transition will be a long one!
Stay tuned to this site and the CIBC site-we may have some spring sailing of our own on the way!
MOOSEHEAD LAKE THURSDAY??
The Truly Incurables up in Maine are still at it- Could it be that we will be able to cure our Tax Day Blues by going iceboating? Check the CIBC site and keep track of what the gang up there is looking at-
Think ICE!!
Pushaw Lake???
This has possibilities…. stay tuned to CIBC site and Ice reports emails if you are interested in the chance of a little Easter sailing…..
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It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over!
Could be more sailing coming- The Maine gang is optimistic and hard-core as ever in the quest to wring every possible day out of the season-
Anyone up for a New England and / or Eastern DN Champs this weekend?
Stay tuned, see CIBC site for any new details at https://iceboat.me
billbuchholz posted: “Bob Lombardo rode his bike across Pushaw yesterday and found about 15% of the surface to be hard slush ice. The rest was a thin dense snow. Rain later in the week might just do the job. He dug down a bit and found what we’ve been seeing in other places, l”
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DN Worlds Done!
Three races yesterday with some drifting snow and shifty breeze to keep everyone on their toes- Some folks had it figured out better than others! Congrats to Karol- Well done! European Champs start today, stay tuned. Good time being had by all!
DN Gold Cup Day 1
Day one in the books- Ron hanging in there pretty well, the rest of us doing what we can! Fleet is deep and talented here but we are learning a lot…. Ice is good, light to medium breeze, and cold temps- everything we love! Click here for results: http://icesailing.org/
James “T” Thieler
12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
401-258-6230
t_thieler@yahoo.com
DN Gold Cup!
Hey Folks- DN Gold Cup starts today in NE Poland; for the life of me I couldn’t tell you what town we are in or what lake we are sailing on. Typical American tourist. Anyway it’s been an adventure as always, lots of laughs already and the regatta hasn’t even begun yet.
Good handful of US sailors here- Berger, Cummins, Hearn, Thieler, Nethercoate (close enough), Sherry…
Lake looks good! Stay tuned for reports- In the meantime enjoy a few photos of road signs, Jorg Bohn’s van, Warren, lovely Polish countryside, and the lake. Think Ice!!
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NIYC champs!
The Nova Ice Yacht Club sailed the NS Champs/AKA Snelly cup on Saturday Feb 17 on beautiful fast ice at MushAMush Lake. Races 1-2 were very exciting in breezy air calling for the MS1 sail. Races 2-3, a bit lighter calling for the ABSS sail and races 5-6 the FO1 sail was best for the lighter wind later in the day. Everyone had their moments of glory and especially for Clyde Childs who scored a second place finish in race 3. After race 4 we took a break to enjoy great hot food and snacks provided by Claudette, we were well fed and watered and continued on to races 5-6. Races 5-6 turned out to be good light air practice. In races 5-6, positions on the race course were traded a few times due to shifting wind conditions with the outcome determined in the very last part of the downwind leg to the finish line. It was a great day of racing on Lake MushAMush.
Bob Crinion
KC 4536See pics and results
Nova Ice Yacht Club 2018 Nova Scotia Championship February 17, 2018, Lake Mush-a-Mush (-6C Clear Smooth Ice) R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R5 Total Net 1 Bob Crinion, NS 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 5 2 Tyler Garland, NS 2 2 3 3 2 3 15 12 3 Danny Moser, PEI 7 5 5 2 3 2 24 17 4 Howard Garland, NS 3 4 7 4 6 5 29 22 5 Clyde Childs, NS 6 8 2 6 5 7 34 26 6 Mike Webber, NS 5 7 8 8 4 4 36 28 7 Art Samson, NS 4 3 4 7 DNS DNS 42 30 8 Dave Whynaght, NS 8 6 6 5 DNS DNS 49 37 9 Dave Collins, NS 11 9 9 10 DNS DNS 63 51 10 Doug Gaudet, PEI 10 DNS DNS DNS DNS 6 64 52 11 Derrick Knickle, NS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNF DNS 72 60 IDNIYRA Scoring
EASTERN CHAMPS NOTICE OF RACE
With a little luck this will happen this weekend- Get your gear ready and block out the weekend! REad closely, especially last line!
NOTICE OF RACE
Eastern Lakes Regional DN Championship Regatta 2018
North American Eastern Region
Organizing Authority: International DN Ice Yacht Racing Association and the North American Eastern Region
1. Rules:
1.1 All races will be governed by the Racing Rules of the National Iceboat Authority; the By-Laws of the IDNIYRA, and Official Specifications of the DN Ice Yacht; the Notice of Race, including any amendments to the Notice of Race, (except as modified by the sailing instructions) and the Sailing Instructions.
1.2 The Sailing Instructions can be modified at the Skippers Meeting and by a notice posted on the official notice board.
1.3 Sail number does not need to match fuselage number or skippers registered IDNIYRA number but does need to be unique to each skippers sail (no duplicates on course)
1.4 Nine race series per fleet – 3 race minimum in the Gold Fleet will constitute the regatta. Fleets – Gold and possible Silver Fleet/ Plate Runner Division/Rookie Division, Volunteer split for fleets if needed. Discard race after 6 races sailed.
2. Eligibility:
2.1 All DN class yachts meeting the requirements of the Official Specifications and whose skippers meet the requirements of the By-Laws of the IDNIYRA as stated in the section IDNIYRA Regattas are eligible to enter and race in the championship.
2.2 Skipper needs to be a current member of IDNIYRA in good standing and have paid their 1 time sail number fee.
3. Site Information and Postings:
3.1 The primary site is within the North American Eastern Region
3.2 Site and Headquarters Information will be determined by the regatta organizer.
3.3 Official regatta information, updates and accommodations: dnamerica.org, theneiya.org
4. Entry and Fee:
4.1 Registration will be at the launch site on Saturday morning 4.2 Registration fee: $20 US
5. Schedule of Events:
Sat 9:15-10am on ice registration
Sat 10am Skippers Meeting
Sat 11am First start
Sunday 10:00am First start. No race will start after 4PM
6. Sailing instructions
6.1 Official Sailing Instructions will be provided at registration.
7. Prizes
7.1 We are trying to locate any and all trophies for this event.
8. Proof of Insurance
8.1 Proof of personal or race liability insurance ($300,000 US minimum) 8.2 A hard copy of the policy must present at the time of registration. No exceptions.
Polish DN Champs Video And Report!
The following post is shamelessly stolen from Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club website- Thanks Deb! Check it out….
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REGATTAS STILL TO RACE!
All,
With two of our major Eastern Region/NEIYA Championships left to sail (The DN Eastern Regionals and The New Englands) and March only a few weeks away please be ready to go for either or both of these championship weekends if you want to race. We could be dealing with rising lake levels and constant changing of surface conditions so expect the calls to be late Thursday or even mid day Friday. This is your prep warning and we are going to try to do some sailing if mother nature allows since the base is still there up north at several venues.
For the Easterns you will need to be a current member of IDNIYRA and a tleast have paid your one time sail # registration fee with the class. It will be ok to compete if you have not received the specific number from the class treasurer or installed it at the start of the event. You will however need to have a sail # that is unique to you and your craft, no duplicates. na.idniyra.org
Also, make sure you print out your $300,000 liability insurance policy to have in hand and on site. I don’t care if you sailed in the NA’s and had it there- this is a different championship and it requires the policy to be present at the time of registration, period. No exceptions. The NOR for the Easterns will be coming out later in the week so keep an eye out on dnamerica.org and theneiya.org
Best, Chad Atkins
DN US 4487
IDNIYRA Eastern Rear Commodore
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Remember NO ice is completely safe and there is always thin ice someplace. It is up to each individual sailor to determine whether the conditions are safe to sail.
Reports are not an assurance of safety and may not be complete information. Please both check with the poster (just reply) and more importantly check in with others on location.
NEVER SAIL ALONE!
James “T” Thieler
12 Channing St.
Newport, RI 02840
401 258 6230
RUNNER TRACKS FEATURES LOCAL ROCK STAR
Click the link and take a look at the new issue of Runner Tracks! All kinds of news and regatta reports, plus a great cover photo of a local hot shot!
Who is it? Here’s a hint, he won the Silver Fleet at the NA champs last month…
http://na.idniyra.org/2018/02/13/february-runner-tracks-newsletter/
NE CHAMPS POSTPONED
The conditions at Webster Lake are not good enough for official club racing but there will be unofficial scratch racing there tomorrow for those who dare-
BE ADVISED USE EXTREME CAUTION AS THERE IS OPEN WATER IN PLACES!!!
See the NEIYA ice reports for details and stay tuned to this site for updates.
Sail safe and have fun if you go!
THINK ICE!
North Sails Poster Boy
Take a look at Chad Atkins, the new face of North Sails DN One Design ripping along at the NA champs!
KEUKA CUP!
The gang in upstate NY has been busy since the DN NA champs- Looks like they ran the inaugural Keuka Cup regatta, top spot being taken by veteran DNer Guy Lovejoy.
Congrats on getting the regatta off and looking forward to sailing up that way more often!
Results here:
Keuka Cup Feb 3 / 4 2018
Boat Name Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Final
4638 Lovejoy 1 1 1 3
5498 Gordon 2 2 3 7
637 Meade 3 3 1 7
2637 Brown 6 6 4 14
5395 Farmer D. 4 4 DNF 15
4287 Famer R. 5 5 DNF 17
2018 DN North American Championship Ice Racing Regatta – YouTube
Jeff Turick made this vid from the DN NAs last week- Very well done!
Take a look….
Meanwhile, Up In VT
Jay Whitehair has completed his latest DN and is more than ready to get back into the racing game-
First photo is new boat. Not him at the helm, apparently a so-called friend of his trying to steal it.
Second photo is him at his other gig, puttin’ out fires…. Both very cool! See him on the ice soon.
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Meanwhile Over In Sweden
We have these vids from the Oxelösund Regatta / January 27th 2018 / Kisängsfjärden, Nyköping and the Meijer DN Cup 2018
Watch for the love-tap at about 20 seconds in and the spin just after the first weather mark rounding…. Great stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDuEw0kE7ak&ab_channel=mickemurare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDENsU7sKUQ&t=162s&ab_channel=mickemurare
Meanwhile Up In Maine
The Cheapskate may be a relatively new iceboat design but the fleet has grown fast and the world championships are held annually!
No details on the regatta but we do know that Bryce Geele took the title this year over last year’s champ Bob MacEwan. Keep an eye on the CIBC site for a report…. https://iceboat.me
Cheapskate Commodore Lloyd Roberts looked on with approval at the awards ceremony pictured below.
Well done Bryce! Looking forward to that report (hint hint….)
Meanwhile, Down In MD
The Deep Creek Gang has dragged another innocent civilian into their tangled web…. her name is Joan Coraor and by all accounts she is hooked big-time!
Welcome to the hard-water world Joan! Great to have you aboard. Think ICE!
DN NA CHAMPS
It wasn’t easy but not only is the DN North American Champs in the books, it was run against the odds and in fine style by the Eastern Region.
Chad Atkins and the team made some good calls in the face of challenging weather patterns and ice conditions across the continent. What seemed like a million ice reports came in from all over and to make a VERY long story short nothing looked good enough to tell everyone to hit the road. Until….
…Finally it was decided to head to Lake Charlevoix in NW Michigan. Excellent call, the ice was good and the snow held off long enough to git ‘er done!
The event ended up being knocked out in a day, five races for each fleet in a range of conditions- early in the day the ice was hard and fast and as it warmed up runners started digging in and adapting boat tune and sailing style was necessary.
The NEIYA and Eastern Region was very well represented; Thieler, Atkins, Lovejoy, Clapp, Hadley, Anderson, Miller, L’Hullier, Baby, Crinion, Curtis, Madden, Brush, Whitcomb, Nethercoate, Samson, Meade, Truesdell, Gordon, Fortier, Valentine, Duncan, Kaiser, McGowan, Connell, and Kent (and probably a few I forgot) made the trip west and waved the NEIYA flag! Not bad at all…
Sailors from the US, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Holland, Poland, and Ohio were all in attendance.
In the Silver Fleet Eben Whitcomb took fifth place, counting a bullet in Race 3. Not bad at all! Some guys from Toledo (Kjoller and Baker) took fourth and third with Don Brush edging both out for second. His finishes of 1,2,3,2,(9) were excellent but amazingly not good enough to keep Steve Madden out of the top spot with a (21),1,2,1,2. Way to rebound from a bad first race! When asked the next day to talk about his win, Steve’s response was to cryptically state that “I’M NOT LIFTING ANYTHING TODAY.” We can only surmise that he left it all on the race course! See photos for a shot of Whitcomb and Madden in the 1 and 2 starting spots….
In the Gold Fleet Chad Atkins was able to forget about the pressures of running the event long enough to take sixth spot in his new CSI/MBC hull, only one point out of fifth. After a strong morning NEIYA Commodore T Thieler counted some high numbers but still managed a fourth. Just ahead of him (AGAIN) was Steve Orlebeke from WI who sailed a strong series. John Dennis of MN missed one race with a rig failure but bounced back for second and Ron Sherry was consistent across all the conditions to take the whole show. Well done Ron! Full results here http://na.idniyra.org/2018/01/26/2018-north-american-championship-results/
I should note that Ron gave a great victory speech (he’s had a bit of practice at this over the years) and also shared some great memories of Meade Gougeon that had everyone in the room laughing through the tears. Well done again Ron- ever think of politics or stand-up comedy? Either way we all appreciate the thoughts.
A few film crews were on hand to document the action, check this site for some video already posted and stay tuned for more down the road….
There were photographers and drone pilots a-plenty, see their stuff at these links:
Jeff Kent drone footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gKJGTJmTBY
UpNorth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDnbQ2MQndo
Onboard with Pete Johns:
Video: Take a ride on an ice boat.
Gretchen Dorian stills:
http://www.gretchendorian.com/2018-DN-North-Americans/
As ever the volunteers who ran the event deserve a standing “O”! My apologies to everyone I’ve forgotten but Loretta Rehe, Deb Whitehorse, Dan Heaney, John Atkins, Bob Schumacher, Mercedes Auger, Erica Stange, Bob and Anne Foeller, Bill Coberly, Bob Grey, and probably more pitched in to get this event knocked out in one day. No small feat- We can’t thank you all enough! When asked to comment on the event Atkins uttered something that was best described as part gibberish, part scat-singing, and part the ramblings of an over-caffeinated lunatic. That said I’m pretty sure he thanks everyone who made it happen as well!
Thanks also to all the sailors who kept the faith and made it to the event! Worth the trip yet again….
Already looking forward to next year and of course all the local and regional events still to come this season. Stay Tuned and Think ICE!!
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Ice sailors from around the world race on Lake Charlevoix | WPBN
Video from today- a few NEIYA members featured!
http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/ice-sailors-from-around-the-world-race-on-lake-charlevoix
Fun Time at NA
Valentine and Treusedell rigging up, Madden and Brush enjoying some fine dining (note the elaborate plating), and Pete indulging his Swiss DNA.
James “T” Thieler
12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
401-258-6230
t_thieler@yahoo.com
DN NA Opening Ceremonies Done
Hey Gang- registration and opening ceremonies for the DN NA champs are done, which means racing starts today!
Eric Anderson was emcee, flags were held by john Curtis from Canada, Bernd Zeiger from Germany, Dideric Van Ramsdic from Netherlands, Leszeck from Poland, Stefan from Sweden, Arnaud Hullier from Switzerland (note flag is upside down) and Griffin Sherry from Detroit. That’s part of US right?
So that is seven countries represented, someone said there were 90 entrants so no a bad turnout!
Ceremony was lighthearted as always and I have to say Ron Sherry gave a very sincere, from the heart eulogy for Meade Gougeon that everyone smiling and laughing as a good eulogy should! Well done Ron.
Stay tuned, racing starts today….
James “T” Thieler
12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
401-258-6230
t_thieler@yahoo.com
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