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

1/23/08

There are 25 hockey rinks worth of clear ice on Nokomis, courtesy of the US Pond Hockey championships. Has anyone seen it?

1/24/08 - I took closer look today. A huge area is cleared but some snow blew on and there are some pretty solid berms in places. Forget it...

/Adam

When someone decides that they want to build a DN, where do they go to find the plans? I know the IDNIYRA has plans, but are those the plans you want to use to build a super dialed program? Advice is always appreciated...

m

Reports are miles of black ice in Menominee, MI

expect Green and Geneva to kick in the cold snap as well!

5 hours isn't that far for iceboating...

Something closer may present itself.

4695

We got on the ice for a week...
in terms of person /day maybe 500
in terms of people on the ice because we were there, maybe 2000
competitor injuries requiring med attention, 0
Boats broken, a few
Hearts broken, a few
near as I know, everybody got home safe, and we left nothing but runner tracks.

4695

Results are now posted at IDNIYRA.ORG.

Weeks 7 & 8 have been all about the North American Championships, which were sailed here in Minnesota.

This weekend looks chilly, but after today's and tomorrow's weather events, dry. The temperatures are forecast to reach the sailing envelope for next weekend, possibly above freezing near Lake Pepin.

At present, we have one known venue in the state with suitable ice, and a couple of suspects that may emerge.

• Lake Pepin, with about 50 square miles of ice. At present Light snow is falling there, at least one forecast says we may only see light dustings on both days, but this ice checker anticipates the 1-3 inches forecast by the NWS.Red Wing Airport Webcam
• Lake Pulaski, Buffalo needs to be checked, it could be there for us as well, an ice report is encouraged, as it looks like the snow is primarily south of the Twin Cities, and it's about 50 miles closer.This must be checked and reported

Sailing Photographer Dallas Johnson was on the ice and Shot some Spectacular Day One Photos on Pepin at the NA's, this shot shows the fleet under the legendary Maiden Rock Bluff on the Wisconsin Shore of Lake Pepin.

The fleets all proved an old iceboating legend by racing and beating trains, watching the entire DN Bronze Fleet outpacing a fast moving freight trains (visible on shore) was Epic. I saw 4 Train Races, The DN's won them all... but I think perhaps the trains may have not had the hammer all the way down.

The Indian legend of the bluff called Maiden Rock, which has some basis in historical fact, concerns a young Dakota Indian woman, Winona, who leaped to her death from the top of the most prominent bluff in the region rather than marry the brave her father, Chief Red Wing, had chosen for her.

Racing in a tough tough competitive fleet, including 7 or 8 former and current North American or World Champions, Minnesota Ice Sailing Top Sailor John Dennis, US 4691 of Mound, MN was the Second Place Finisher in an EPIC DN North Americans this Weekend, on Pepin near Historic Frontenac, MN

WCCO Coverage, Link to the wcco.com story, good interviews,

KTTC - Rochester Coverage, Gliding on Ice, good story, excellent images.

I'm looking for a used Gambit sail.
btwadey@yahoo.com

Priced for an immediate sale.
one 1/4" x 36" 440 insert steel in excellent condition first $175.00 takes it, that's about a hundred less than "retail". Very nice 19.5" crown, from a very very fast set of runners, twin broken in a violent collision a couple years ago.

email mark (at) onemorebid.com

The famous Poet, Blogging in Marble, and Iceboater, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), one of those guys known off the ice by just one name, Horace, DN MMMMDCXCV, about 2000 years ago said it best, people have been using his words for two millennia

"Carpe DN" ; )

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The ice awaits... but not for long.

4695