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Central Lakes Rear Commodore Kent Baker reoprts the Central Lakes Regional Championship Regatta tentatively scheduled for February 23-24, 2013 has been POSTPONED .

See the DN bulliten board @ http://dnamerica.org/forum for more information.

The Nite National 2013 Championship Regatta has been called ON for Green Lake, WI., for the weekend of Feb 16 & 17, 2013. See the 4LIYC web site @ http://www.iceboat.org for more details along with the Notice of Race (NOR), Sailing Instructions and Registration form.

White fronted geese have entered SE Iowa, which has been a harbinger of the death of the ice season in these parts. Nice while it lasted. The snow maps show NW Iowa as clear and the ice fishing shanties are still up. Clear Lake, Ia. is still sucking up vehicles.

Just cold, very cold.

I didn't do so well. I was cold and wet!

But my cool Drift HD Ghost performed great all week. Peter Crawford of Penalty Box Productions told me it was the bomb. It was freezing cold with ice pellets, rain, slush, and mounted on the runner blank and didn't miss a beat. The battery lasted all day, even when it was 4 degrees F. amazing! I used the wrist remote control and with the colored LCD it worked really good. I recommend the Drift HD Ghost. It worked good in extreme winter conditions.

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John "JD" Dennis sailing us4691 totally dominated the 2013 North American Championships with three bullets!!!
The three race regatta was sailed in light air on snow coved Lake Pepin in Lake City, MN.

This is JD's second victory at the North American Championship regatta. His first victory came in 2004 at Sandusky Ohio. JD is also the only Minnesota sailor ever to win the NA's.

CONGRATULATIONS JD!!!!

Gold fleet
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Hi folks,
I'm hoping to stir up some interest for anyone who has a boat they can put on a trailer... And wants to come sailing on Lake of the Woods, 2hrs north of the boarder. We have a long standing regatta that traditionally has had 40 plus Minnesotan boats participating, but lately those numbers have dwindled down to less than 10. Here's a bit of info about the regatta, which has both highly competitive racing divisions, and an open cruising division for those wanting to take it a bit easy... My first regatta I was only 4 months old!

For sale: Henderson Speed Suit available at NA's.
SOLD!

Link to WCCO's written article and video: http://goo.gl/VFg3B.

This is the first time in its 40 years that the DN Iceboating World Championship has ever come to Minnesota. At this championship people will race for the Gold Cup and then for the North American Championship.

“We have over 100 competitors from 9 countries,” the DN Class Secretary, Jim McDonagh, said. “We’ll be racing till we get 7 races in, in each fleet.”

Regatta complete. Polish sailors take first and second. J.D is third. Ron Sherry fourth. The Doctor is 10th.

What's your name, and where are you from?

We are looking for local RC help.

Early Sunday Morning-- through-- Tuesday.

Ideally someone who is familiar with ICE.

Local so the class don't need to pay for gas.

The class can pick up the hotel expenses, but Ideally someone local again would be great.

It would be nice if they are familiar with driving a 4-wheeler.

Duties might include moving marks, moving starting lines, assisting the scorers and RC, herding cats..

The organization has four 4-wheelers coming so we could use a lot of RC help to keep things moving.

DN GOLD CUP Called "ON!" for Lake Pepin at Lake City, MN.
See the DN website at: https://ice.idniyra.org/ for more info.

Be sure to thank the Doctor, Mike Miller and Tom V. for scouting the ice. Without their efforts, there is no way the regatta chair would bring this event to Minnesota. Also, thank Jim McDonagh for all his behind the scene efforts. He works tirelessly on our behalf.

If you ever thought about attending a big time sailing event this would be it. Over a hundred boats from 8 different countries have already registered. Sailors are assigned to one of three fleets depending on your ranking: Gold, Silver and Bronze. If you do not have a ranking you are assigned to the bronze fleet with an opportunity to move up into the silver fleet if you sail well. There will be be sailors of all abilities so you need not be intimidated by the top ranked sailors.

Attending a World Championship is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Please join us.
See you on the ice!

Just posted on DN website.
The World is coming to Minnesota just 1.5 hours away

I big thanks to Mke and Tom for braving the sub-zero tempertures for going on a Lake Pepin Adventure. Sort of a frozen huck-fin story. Sunny and very cold, with little wind, they went out to the middle of the lake to get a tan, and then the wind kicked up. A little rumbly and about 18" of ice.

They launched just south of Lake City at the nice public launch, drive on. They sailed all the way up past Hok-Si-La Park, near Frontenac.

They reported that area North of Lake City and south of Hok-Si-La to be a great area for racing.