Iceboating Report from PEI
Six DNs travelled from Nova Scotia to PEI this weekend to join PEI-based NIYC members on Covehead Bay, near Stanhope. Some were cruisers but there were enough racers for us to decide to sail for the Nova Ice Yacht Club’s Nova Scotia trophy – OK , we were in PEI, but have you seen any ice in NS recently? There was about 2 km of available ice with plenty of room to set a course about 0.6 mile in length.
Temperatures were below freezing all weekend. On Saturday we sailed on 7 or 8 inches of hard salt-water ice covered with about 3 inches of soft snow. The wind started at about 8 knots and built to 10 to 12 as the day progressed. Plate runners and FO1s were the order of the day. As the day wore on the snow began to drift and the ride got bumpier as the boats knocked to tops off the drifts. It was fast, powered-up sailing, and Bob Crinion had the measure of us with six bullets.
Saturday night we retired to Doug Gaudet’s for dinner where Helen treated us well; indeed, at lunch on Saturday she brought hot chili to the launch site!
Sunday morning dawned clear and windy, and as feared Saturday’s drifts had hardened into boat-breakers. There were lots of clear patches, but the prospect of tearing a plank off on a hardened drift or having an out-of-boat experience brought common sense to the fore. We loaded up and headed home. Despite sailing only one day we had a grand time, with special thanks to hosts Doug an Helen Gaudet. Photos by Doug and Helen too.
If that is the end of the season, it ended well! Great Western Challenge next?
| Races | Total | |||||||
| 1 | Bob Crinion | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Warren Nethercote | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | RET | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | Danny Mosher | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Art Samson | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | DNS | DNS | 18 |
| 5 | Wayne Matheson | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | Mike Webber | DNS | DNS | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 27 |
| 7 | Howard Garland | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | DNS | 30 |
Warren
2016 Nova Scotia Championships
March 19, 2016. Covehead Bay, PEI
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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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 4 5 Points ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 4 5 Points ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
Big Day At NAs
Big breeze saw the gold qualifier done and gold fleet race one done- That’s the good news- Bad news is a few masts gave up and a few boats need a little patching up!
Personally I had an interesting race…. Off the line from spot #18, good acceleration and clear air. Boat felt good and was going well. Tacked over to port as soon as I could.
Big lifting puffs from the left were a gift from above- I left the darling mark to port and tacked over, rounded the top mark with a decent lead.
Took off like a shot down the run and of course over stood the layline by a mile and was passed by Matt Struble, Ron Sherry, and Jost Kolb. Oops….
Passed Jost at the mark rounding, sneaked past Ron on the beat and got back into second. The CSI sled was wicked up and tuned in! Breeze was way up, easing sheet upwind was necessary to keep the mast off the ice…. Radical.
Next leg over stood again but by less- held onto second.
Next beat was able to stay to windward of Ron to the port layline then tacked for the mark. One leg to go, reminded myself aloud not to do anything stupid….
Downwind breeze was up, over stood by a bit again, boat was bouncing all over and really twitchy- here’s where it gets interesting…..
About 100 yards from the finish- Neck and neck w Ron Sherry, second place on the line. I said aloud to myself “don’t do anything dumb, second is as good as first”. I should have dropped the sheet and coasted over the line but NOOOOO, I just had to push it and haul the sheet a little- heading up to cross the line and suddenly the world was spinning- Rapidly.
Long story short I did at least a 360, maybe a 720. It happened fast. When the rotation stopped I could see orange out of my left eye- I figured that was the mark so all good there. Out of my right eye I could see a checkered flag being held by a rapidly back-pedaling John Atkins. So I was pointed the right way and had actually crossed the line (possibly stern first) to take third.
I did notice in the middle of all this that the entire silver fleet was watching along with every boat behind me, so I get points or maximum public self-humiliation. I didn’t even think about trying to play it cool about this one! The chop-busting started immediately- jokes about showing off, grandstanding for the cameras, needing a tutu for the boat since it pirouettes like a ballet dancer etc… What the hell, I still got a third!
Stay tuned for more- the second part of the day was pretty cool too…. Trust me.
T
James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
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“Deja Vu All Over Again”
No breeze again today at the DN NAs….. But at least we made it out to the race course for awhile….
The local club put on a mid-lake BBQ for everyone- many thanks to the crew that made that happen- helped ease the pain quite a bit!
No racing but more BBQ waiting when we got in- Along with a keg. In the photo see Chris Miller of LI recovering from the psychological strain of standing around on the ice all day- Obviously he is teetering on the brink of a total mental meltdown.
Should be some breeze tomorrow- Fingers crossed!
Think Ice…. T
James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
401 258 6230
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NA Day One
Hey Folks-
The qualifier race is in the books here at the NAs-
Matt Struble barely made the time limit in the light air to take the top spot- lots of other boats struggled and the scorers have their work cut out for them tonight….
We hope to have a little more breeze tomorrow- stay tuned!
As for the photos, that would be our own Oliver Moore fixing a broken hiking rack in the hotel room. Wish I’d taken photos of us dragging it up the stairwell to the fourth floor-
In any case it just wouldn’t be a DN regatta without a little hotel room repair job!
Stay tuned- Hope everyone gets some sailing out that way-
T
James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
401 258 6230
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NA Champs Started
Hey Folks- flags raised, registration under way, race one tomorrow if we have breeze….
Decent turnout- Plenty of eastern representation!
Check the photos:
-According to my car thermometer it was 70F as I drove across Ohio….
-Rick Lemberg being interviewed for French TV
-Deb Whitehorse gets a special award (a dozen roses) for being generally awesome
-flag raising ceremony.
James “T” Thieler12 Channing St.
Newport, RI. 02840
401 258 6230
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