Ron Sherry US44 2019 North American Champion
Photographer Gretchen Dorian made the trip downstate to the 2019 Gold Cup at Indian Lake and shares her photo gallery.
The photos are available for purchase on Gretchen’s website.
Awards ceremony to be at 4:30 PM at oakwood resort.
PRO John Atkins brings them home Photo: Cathy Firmbach
13 races in the books for the first day of the 2019 DN North American Championship. Big breeze, a relatively small course at .7 mile because of wind direction, and competitive fleets all the way around.
ANNUAL GOVERNING MEETING:
Time: 8 PM ET tonight 21 February at Regatta Headquarters
FRIDAY SCHEDULE 22 FEBRUARY
10 AM ET First Race
Rotation:
Bronze
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Repeating
Gold Cup Champion Michal Burczynski of Poland Photo: Cathy Firmbach
Photographer and iceboater Cathy Firmbach shared these photos from the 2019 Gold Cup Championship on Indian Lake near Lima, Ohio. cefirmbach.com
The 2019 Gold Cup had 5 women competitors and 3 received women’s trophies. Renee Fields, an experienced land sailor who sailed and raced an iceboat for the first time, placed 27th in the Bronze fleet. The top ranked North American woman, Julie Richards, finished 25th in the Silver fleet. Germany’s Anja Fiedler finished 9th in the Gold fleet.
We had previously published that Anja was the first female to finish in the top ten of a World Championship but let the record show that Lake Geneva’s Jane Pegel US805 accomplished that feat at the first World Championship sailed in 1973 on Gull Lake in Michigan. Jane placed 8th in the Gold fleet at that inaugural Worlds.
You can read about Jane Pegel’s remarkable career as a top ice sailor back when there were even fewer women competing at championships in the December 2016 DN class Newsletter, Runner Tracks.
Jane sends along the following note:
Susie and I are pleased to congratulate the women who competed in the Gold Cup and wish them well in the North Americans. But here is a correction to your report:In Susie’s scrap book she has come across an article about the first Gold Cup at Gull Lake in 1973. Jane placed 8th in the Gold fleet. Susie placed 16th in the Gold fleet.
Joerg Bohn G737, Germany Photo: Jim Williamson
A couple of announcements this morning from Lake Wawasee, Indiana.
You can check for provisional results during the regatta at the link above. The first mini-qualifier race begins at 11 AM ET today, 21 February.
iceboat.org Minnesota Ice Sailing Association Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club New England Ice Yacht Association