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Racing This Weekend

OK, it’s only Wednesday and there is some radical weather passing through but the Powers-That-Be (or, more accurately, “the Ludicrously Optimistic”) are looking ahead to the weekend.

We may just have options…. the Canadians are looking to have their national champs up that way, and we need to get the Eastern Champs in the books. Will do our best to set it up so the regattas don’t conflict. Maybe do one Saturday and one Sunday. Not sure about specific sites yet but there are promising spots in NH, ME and NB.

So clear the calendar, gas up the car, find your passport, cross your fingers and remember we sailed until Tax Day last year! Think back to that final weekend on Champlain last season, Easterns and NE’s in two days…. It was killah!!

And of course stay tuned to this site for details.

Think Ice!!

James “T” Thieler

Posted by  |  03/02/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Racing This Weekend

Speed Master: DN Ice Yachting North Americans 2016: Matt Struble Champ | Catamaran Racing, News & Design

Hello All- thought I’d share this link- good little interview with the new NA champ along with some good pics and a video or two of his rather impressive starting technique….

http://www.catsailingnews.com/2016/03/speed-master-dn-ice-yachting-north.html?m=1

James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840

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Posted by  |  03/01/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Speed Master: DN Ice Yachting North Americans 2016: Matt Struble Champ | Catamaran Racing, News & Design

Start of the Week Odds and Island Friends

 

Thanks to Bill Converse for sending over a few more shots from Lake Wentworth.

This season we have all been traveling more than usual. And it’s not just us but some of our friends from Long Island as well. Since we have been crossing paths so much this season, thought I would pass on their most recent newsletter. Make sure you say hello the next time you see them on at the launch or on the ice.

There is still safe sailable ice out there.

Not done yet!

LRIYC February 2016 Newsletter click for full file.
LRIYC February 2016 Newsletter click above for full file.

Posted by  |  02/29/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Start of the Week Odds and Island Friends

But wait, There’s More – Moosehead

CC DN Delivery

 

Four of us from Cape Cod took the trip to Moosehead Friday night for a great sail on Saturday. We started the day very early with about 10 mph of breeze. The wind built steadily throughout day. After I took an interesting spin out after lunch, we all shortly there after decided to head for shore and the long drive home.

Thanks to the “usual suspects” from Chickie for hosting and helping us explore Moosehead’s vast icy reaches

Have trailer will travel. We are not done yet!

Rick

 

Posted by  |  02/28/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on But wait, There’s More – Moosehead

Not Done Yet…

 

Canton Gang ready for a heist

Photo credit Bill Converse

Conditions are ever changing. What looks good sometimes is not and visa versa. It’s all a matter of of not giving up and being at the right place at the right time.

Seek and ye shall find. Sailors had a good day on Lake Wentworth Saturday, and Sunday. Plenty of ice, surface about grade 6 but for this time of year, sail-able. Good wind after 2:00 P.M. Very light early.

More pictures to come.

 

 

Posted by  |  02/28/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Not Done Yet…

Big Dawgs Fall Hard

The NEIYA’s top finishers recuperating from their epic performances.

Posted by  |  02/27/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Big Dawgs Fall Hard

Heros

Bad ass video of the event from Western region hero Jim Mcdonagh.

Posted by  |  02/27/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Heros

NEIYA Headed East

All packed up and headed east, somewhere in Ohio, maybe near Toledo. Who cares, will get there when we get there.

Drive good so far, haven’t done anything silly like put diesel in a car that takes gas for fuel. In fact I took that little stunt a step further and didn’t put anything at all in the tank which left us on the side of the road for about 20 minutes waiting for AAA.

As if I hadn’t had my chops busted enough yet this trip Oliver started immediately, which is funny since he was marooned right along with me.

AAA was there in minutes and a half hour later we had breakfast w/ Atkins and his father. It was great to see his father.

Enjoying the drive through the heartland, batting the breeze about all the highs and lows of the week. Many more of the former-

We noted that Chris Miller may not have been picked as top rookie but we think he deserves a mention, 35th overall in Gold Fleet, best finish an 18th place- Very impressive.

Make next year the year!

Stay tuned for weekend options….

Think Ice! T

James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840

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Posted by  |  02/27/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on NEIYA Headed East

2016 DN NA’s – And The Winner Is…

The results are in. More recaps out tomorrow some time. It’s a long haul home to RI.

In the mean time take a look at how the NEIYA was represented on the results.

More later,

T

2016 DN North American Championship Results

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Posted by  |  02/26/2016 | Categories: 2016 Racing, 2016 Season | Comments Off on 2016 DN NA’s – And The Winner Is…

DN NAs DONE!

GREAT day of racing out here in Madison- The committee kept us hopping all day to put ten races in the books. The breeze was light in the morning and built all day- the las two races were full-on!

Matt Struble sailed very well to take first, Ron Sherry rallied to take second and yours truly was third- Chad Atkins took eighth behind Jim Hadley of NJ.

Awesome time had by all- first photo is Mike Clapp, top junior- second is Scott Valentine from LI with trophies, third is Rick Gordon from upstate NY, fourth is Warren Nethercoate from NS, fifth is a bunch of crazy Europeans, sixth is Atkins, seventh is Hadley.

All in all a lot of eastern region sailors finished in the money- Well done everyone!! Well done to Chris Miller and Hank Kaiser for completing their first NA champs- Well done boys!

Great to see all the hardcore cases out here- Thanks to all the organizers, scorers, PRO people, mark movers… Trust me, it takes an army to put on an event like this and we thank them all!

Looking forward to sailing back in home territory- think ice! T

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James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840

401 258 6230
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Posted by  |  02/26/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on DN NAs DONE!

2016 DN NA Thursday Report

Hello All,

Big day at the NAs. Breeze still up, wild full speed sailing all day.

Personally I one-upped myself.   My spin yesterday paled in comparison to today’s leeward mark spin and out-of-boat experience.   No harm done, got back in and finished the race.

Other than that a good day-  the eastern gang is doing well-   LI, NJ, RI, NY, CT, all having a blast and enjoying some moments of brilliance!  Check attached results to see how your gang is doing!

Last day of racing tomorrow,  will see what the day brings!

Put this one on your calendar for next year folks…

Think Ice!  T

2016 IDNIYRA NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 
FEBRUARY 22 - 27, 2016
LAKE MONONA
MADISON, WISCONSON
Gold fleet
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Pos    Sail#            Name           Race>     1    2    3    4    5  Points
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  1   US  183       STRUBLE,            MATT     1    1    1    1 (  2)   4.00
  2   US   44        SHERRY,         RON (S)     2 (  2)   2    2    1    7.00
  3   US 5224       THIELER,           JAMES     3    4 ( 14)   3    3   13.00
  4    G  936          KOLB,        JOST (S)     4    7 ( 11)   4    4   19.00
  5   US 1188        HADLEY,       JAMES (S)     6    5    4 (  8)   5   20.00
  6   US   60        HARPER,        JOHN (M)  ( 11)   9    3    5    8   25.00
  7   US    3        GROGAN,         JIM (M)  ( 23)   8    7    9   10   34.00
  8    G  679     SCHNEIDER,    MARTIN-BJORN    10 ( 16)   5   14    7   36.00
  9   US 5469         MOORE,          OLIVER  ( 18)  11    6   10   14   41.00
 10   US 4975         EVANS,      ROBERT (S)    13   15    9 ( 20)   6   43.00
 11    H  467 VAN RIEMSDIJK,     DIDERIC (S)     7 ( 18)  17    7   16   47.00
 12   US 5053          REIS,      GEORGE (M)    19 ( 33)  12    6   12   49.00
 13   US 5214      MCDONAGH,             JIM    14   10   13   12 ( 19)  49.00
 14    S  713      GUSTRING,     RICKARD (M)     9   17   15 ( 18)  13   54.00
 15   US 4487        ATKINS,            CHAD  (DNF)  25    8   16    9   58.00
 16   US  807       FRANCIS,              JR    12   21   10   19 ( 27)  62.00
 17   US 5166        BERGER,           CHRIS    15   14   19   15 ( 22)  63.00
 18   US  216       POTCOVA,     RICHARD (S)    16   19 ( 22)  11   20   66.00
 19    G  666         SIEMS,     TORSTEN (S)  ( 45)  22   18   22   15   77.00
 20   US 3705        HOLMAN,      ROBERT (S)  ( 42)  12   21   21   24   78.00
 21   US 5432         BLOOM,        MIKE (S)  (DNF)  13   23   17   28   81.00
 22    G  551       SEEGERS,   CHRISTIAN (M)    21   23   16   23 ( 26)  83.00
 23   US 5116         CLAPP,        DAVE (S)    20 ( 30)  27   26   11   84.00
 24   US 5352         HEARN,      DANIEL (S)    24   20   20   24 (DNS)  88.00
 25   US 3283      WILLIAMS,    J.BRUCE (GM)    22   29   24 ( 30)  18   93.00
 26   US 5298         BROWN,       SCOTT (S)    17   28   32   25 ( 35) 102.00
 27   US 5501      ORLEBEKE,           PETER    30 ( 34)  29   13   31  103.00
 28   US  637      MEADE IV,             JOE    26   24   26   29 ( 34) 105.00
 29   US 5285          TEAL,       CHRIS (S)    29   27 ( 36)  28   25  109.00
 30   US 2545       DERUSHA,        MIKE (S)     8    3 (DNS) DNS  DNS  113.00
 31   US 4926      ORLEBEKE,           STEVE     5    6 (DNS) DNS  DNS  113.00
 32   US 5219         BAKER,            KENT    25   26   33   31 ( 36) 115.00
 33   US 4148         DIXON,         TIM (S)  ( 38)  35   31   34   17  117.00
 34   US 5358         FROST,       DAVID (S)  ( 43)  31   25   33   29  118.00
 35   US 5415        MILLER,           CHRIS    28 ( 43)  28   32   30  118.00
 36   US 4882        WOLLAM,     RICHARD (M)    37   32 ( 37)  27   32  128.00
 37   US 4868      RICHARDS,       JULIE (M)    34 (DNS)  35   38   23  130.00
 38   US 4974         JONES,       STAN (GM)    27   37   34 ( 39)  37  135.00
 39   KC 5514        CURTIS,            JOHN    33 ( 44)  43   40   21  137.00
 40   US 1277        BOWMAN,        HAL (GM)    35   38   30   37 ( 39) 140.00
 41   US  610         JONES,     DONALD (GM)    31   40   40   35 ( 42) 146.00
 42   US 3433       CUMMINS,      ROBERT (M)    36   36 ( 42)  42   33  147.00
 43   US 5430       CUTTING,        BILL (S)    39   39   38   36 ( 40) 152.00
 44   US 2360         JOHNS,       PETE (GM)    40 ( 42)  41   41   38  160.00
 45   US 4335         GLICK,        DAVE (M)    41   41   39 ( 43)  41  162.00
 46   US 5369        MILLER,        MIKE (M)    32  DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  185.00
 47   US 5350     TRUESDELL,       PETER (S)    44   45 (DNS) DNS  DNS  191.00
 48   KC 2766    VAN ROSSEM,       PETER (S)    46  DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  199.00
 49T  US  472       COBERLY, J. WILLIAM (GM)   DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  DNS  204.00
 50T  US  445          CAVE,         BOB (M)   DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  DNS  204.00

Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds




Silver fleet
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Pos    Sail#         Name       Race>     1    2    3    4    5  Points
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  1   US 5507    BARNETT,        MIKE     5 (DNS)   1    1    1    8.00
  2   US 3937     VOUGHT,  DANIEL (S)  (  4)   1    3    3    2    9.00
  3   US 5486      ELSMO,       DAVID     3    2    2 (  5)   3   10.00
  4   US 4155    LEMBERG, RICHARD (M)     1    4    4    4 (  5)  13.00
  5   US 4203 FITZGERALD, PATRICK (M)     6    3    6 (  7)   6   21.00
  6   US 5435    KJOLLER,        JODY    15    6    5    2 (DNS)  28.00
  7   KC 3786 NETHERCOTE,  WARREN (M)     7 ( 10)   7    6    8   28.00
  8   US 5498     GORDON,    RICK (S)  ( 13)   5   11   11    4   31.00
  9   US 5156   SOBERING,   GEOFF (S)     8 ( 18)  10   10    9   37.00
 10   US  294   LOENNEKE,  LOUIS (GM)    12 (DNS)   8    8   11   39.00
 11   US 5633   JOHANSON,       PETER    10    8 ( 13)   9   12   39.00
 12   US 5478   GORITSKI,    JACK (M)     2   15 ( 15)  13   10   40.00
 13   US 1313       RAST,  ROBERT (M)     9    9    9 ( 14)  13   40.00
 14   US 5158     BUSHEY,    JOHN (M)    11   13   12 ( 16)   7   43.00
 15   US 4490      MADGE,    MIKE (S)  ( 18)   7   16   12   16   51.00
 16   US 5451      ALLEN,    ANDY (S)  ( 25)  11   17   15   14   57.00
 17   US   65       GRAY, ROBERT (GM)    17   12   14 ( 18)  15   58.00
 18   US 4137   SMITH JR,     KEN (M)    16   14 ( 18)  17   17   64.00
 19   US 4925  VALENTINE,   SCOTT (S)    19   16   19 ( 20)  19   73.00
 20   US 5397      LENON,    JORI (S)    20   17 ( 20)  19   18   74.00
 21   KC 5457     DUNCAN,   COLIN (M)    22   19   21   22 (DNS)  84.00
 22   US  107     KAISER,    HANK (M)    23 (DNS)  22   23   21   89.00
 23   US 5296    COLEMAN,     PAT (M)   DNS (DNS)  23   21   20   95.00
 24   US 1610      BROWN,   BRUCE (M)    14  DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  107.00
 25   US 4140     HOEPER,   PETER (M)    21  DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  114.00
 26   US 3271  JANKOWSKI,    MIKE (M)    24  DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  117.00
 27   US51161      CLAPP,     MIKE JR    26  DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  119.00
 28T  US 4271  JANKOWSKI,   JULIE (S)   DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  DNS  124.00
 29T  US 5517   THOMPSON,       JASON   DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  DNS  124.00
 30T   P   71 ZIOLKOWSKI,  LESZEK (M)   DNS (DNS) DNS  DNS  DNS  124.00

Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds

Posted by  |  02/25/2016 | Categories: 2016 Racing, 2016 Season | Comments Off on 2016 DN NA Thursday Report

Field Trip to Harken – Pewaukee, WI

Since it was blowing 30kts by lunch time we had the afternoon off.

Veteran DN sailor Steve Orlebeke invited the fleet to see where he works, which happens to be the Harken plant in Pewaukee.

So. Freaking. Cool. Giant facility, clean as a whistle, some very cool machinery…. Fascinating to see where our favorite blocks come from and how they go together. Also wild to see some of the big stuff they are working on-

Hard to do it justice but maybe the pics will help-

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Capped the day with dinner at a steak joint where Al Capone and other Chicago gangsters used to hang out when the heat was on….

Stay tuned! T

Posted by  |  02/24/2016 | Categories: 2016 Season | Comments Off on Field Trip to Harken – Pewaukee, WI