2017-2018 Season Archives
2017-2018 Archives
2017-2018 Season:
- DN Regattas
- Northwest Regatta CANCELLED FOR THE SEASON
- International Skeeter Association and Renegade Championship POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 2018
Mendota Magic
Back in Madison after exhibiting at boat shows (he’s a boat dealer in his day job), 4LIYC Commodore Don Anderson has been busy making up for lost ice time on Lake Mendota. EASY RIDER and Don enjoyed a great day of sailing Wednesday and today, the MARY B stern-steerer group is setting her up n front of the Edgewater as part of Clean Lakes’ Alliance Frozen Assets Festival.
Regatta Watch: Nite National Called ON Feb 3-4 on Mendota
Photo: George Gerhardt Ready position!
This weekend, Lake Mendota will be the place to be if you embrace winter. The 2018 Nite National Regatta will be sailed on Lake Mendota February 3-4, 2018. All official information is posted on the Nite Class website.
The MARY B will be on display at the Clean Lake Alliance premier event, Frozen Assets Festival at the Edgewater Hotel. If that isn’t enough fun, UW Madison’s Hoofers Winter Carnival is also taking place. The 4LIYC will likely be club racing this weekend as well. We’ll have an announcement about 4LIYC racing by 5 PM on Friday.
Regatta Watch: Junior Worlds in Lithuania Feb 5-8
Video from DN Ice Sailing Lithuania Facebook page, January 31, 2018, Lake Rekyva.
The DN and Ice Optimist Junior World Championship will take place in Siaulai, Lithuania on Rekyva Lake.
Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club DNer, Thor Rosten, and his dad Ron, are leaving for the regatta today and taking Thor’s Meade Gougeon red DN acquired over the summer from Ron Sherry. Good luck, Thor!
Weather Watching
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“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Marcel Proust
Weather forecasting is part of the sport of ice yachting. Here are three weather websites that have been recommended and proved useful during this winter of the Zamboni:
- SpotWX: “…designed as a spot weather forecasting tool. There’s no shortage of sites out there, both government and private, which display weather maps from various models. However getting the actual numbers required for a spot forecast remains a difficult task without specialized desktop software. SpotWx was created to fill that void.”
- Tropical Tibits Forecast Models: Supplies graphical forecasts from numerical weather models.
- Windy: “Weather radar, wind and waves forecast for kiters, surfers, paragliders, pilots, sailors and anyone else.”
YOU Can Help Build a Fleet!
4LIYC DN/Skeeter sailor and UW Sailing Coach, Dave Elsmo, has been getting college age sailors into iceboats this winter but he needs your help! If you have an old DN hulls, chocks, or masts, please get in touch with Dave so he can put together some boats for these enthusiastic new ice sailors.. You can email to me debwhitehorse@iceboat.org if you don’t have Dave’s contact information.
We had 12 new sailors on the loaners boats between Saturday and Sunday. I have three students that are really interested in racing more and possibly building their own programs. I have two planks without chocks, an extra set of stays, 1 spare mast and three spare sails. Can the group find some old DN hulls,chocks, and a masts? Fun fact, Ben Witman was competitively racing on Sunday with an old fiberglass Sherry mast. Get your old parts on the ice!
Dave Elsmo
4LIYC Racing Scores Updated
Photo from the Yahara Project Instagram page, A documentary project on the Yahara Watershed.
After waiting out a snow flurry, the club was able to race on Sunday, January 28 on Lake Mendota and Tim McCormick has tabulated the standings.4LIYC Scores, Jan 30, 2018
A highlight of that day on Mendota was several college-age soft water sailors being introduced to our sport. Daniel Hearn put it best in his Facebook post:
Tip of the helmet to Dave Elsmo, who seemingly had the entire UW Sailing Team out taking turns and racing with us. Great exposure for our sport, due to Dave’s tireless ambassadorship!
2018 DN North American Championship
Photo: Gretchen Dorian
After a 5 day delay because of weather, the 2018 DN North American championship was sailed on Lake Charlevoix in Petoskey, Michigan January 24 -27. Congratulations to defending champion Ron Sherry for winning his 13th title in the Gold fleet and Steve Madden for winning the Silver fleet. Below is some drone footage from Jeff Kent.
You will find links to photos, videos, and news stories over at idniyra.org.
Results
Gretchen Dorian Photos
Sailing Scuttlebutt Report
Regatta Watch: Nite Nationals Called ON for Madison Feb 3-4
Nite Nationals called ON for February 3-4.
Via the International Nite Iceboat Association Website:
Several boats sailed a large sheet of ice on Lake Mendota today (1-28). Though the ice had a fresh 1/2″ of snow, it checked out fine. We’ll watch to be sure it doesn’t turn stiff.
Keep up to date by visiting the Nite website.
Regatta Watch: Northwest Postponed
Photo: Jeff Russell Dan Clapp sails his Class A Skeeter, INSANITY on Green Lake at the 2014 Northwest Regatta.
The Northwest Regatta has been postponed. Next update is Sunday, February 4, 2018.
Wisconsin Skeeter Racers Update
Class A Skeeter pilots Tom Hyslop & Ken Whitehorse
Wisconsin Skeeter Race results from Green Bay, Suamico, WI.
1st Ken Whitehorse
2nd Tom Hyslop
3rd Jay YaesoShort track racing, 7 races completed.
Nice day to sail, if you like to sail..
Jay
Online Ship’s Store
National Iceboat Authority Web Page
4LIYC Governing Documents
Click for 4LIYC Meeting Dates
- November 6
- November 20 Elections
- December 4
- December 18
- January 2 THURSDAY Honor Roll Nominations
- January 15 Deadline for By-Law or Racing Rules Amendment Submission
- January 29
- February 12 Business Meeting
- February 26
- March 12 Last Meeting of the Season
Location: In person at the Elks Lodge 711 Jenifer St, Madison, WI 53703
Time: 6:30 PM
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