The Governing Board, Rear Commodores, and other Western Region members held a telephone conference call this evening to discuss possible regatta sites. Though it’s more than likely there are good sites available in the Western Region, we are asking ice scouts across North America to continue to report conditions to their Rear Commodores. At this point, the primary site continues to be Wisconsin but we do have options in other regions. Next update will be Wednesday, January 18, 8:30 PM CST.
The Rope halyard Proposal passed overwhelmingly. Normally the effective date would be March 31 2017, however, the European Governing Committee specifically asked when they submitted the proposal that it be effective Jan 1 2017. The Specifications Management Agreement make is clear that if the Governing committee that requests the vote specifies the effective date be Jan 1, that that overrides the March 31 date. This is reflected in the minutes of the 2016 European Spring Meeting.
Therefor the effective date for the rope halyard proposal is Januay 1 2017 and rope halyards are legal for the 2017 Gold Cup and North American Championships.
It has come to the attention of the IDNIYRA and European governing committee that the 2014 vote to allow para aramid in the construction of tillers was conducted incorrectly. It was only sent to ballot in north America and not in Europe. This violates the specifications management agreement.
The IDNIYRA Governing Committee and European Governing Committee, with the concurrence of the technical committee have determined that the original vote allowing the use of Kevlar in the construction of tillers was not a legal vote. Therefore this specification change is reversed. Any member that constructed a tiller of para aramid (Tradename Kevlar) shall notify the governing committee of their respective continent so that tiller may be registered. Any such registered tiller will be allowed for the 2016-17 season.
Since this was originally a North American proposal, the IDNIYRA Governing Committee will resubmit this proposal to a membership vote in the fall of 2017. Any tillers that were built between 2015 and now will be grandfathered in for this season, if they are registered.
United States DN sailors traveling to the Worlds – it’s always a good idea to bring a passport no matter where the primary regatta site may be called on. Conditions change. Be prepared!
The goal is to announce the FINAL CALL BY 9 PM CST ON JAN 18. THE LATEST WILL BE NOON JAN 19.
The 2017 New England Championship was sailed on Lake Champlain on Saturday, January 14, 2017.
2017 New England Championship - January 14, 2017
Lake Champlain
Gold fleet
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Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Points
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1 US 4487 ATKINS, CHAD 1 3 1 2 2 3 ( 4) 1 1 14.00
2 US 5469 MOORE, OLIVER ( 3) 1 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 16.00
3 US 5415 MILLER, CHRIS 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 ( 4) 18.00
4 US 4690 FORTIER, DAVID (S) 8 ( 13) 5 4 5 7 5 8 7 49.00
5 US 5187 MACCORMACK, WILLIAM 4 5 4 5 7 8 8 10 (DNS) 51.00
6 US 4775 WHITCOMB III, EBEN (S) 5 ( 9) 6 7 8 5 7 6 8 52.00
7 US 5606 KNOWLES, MATT 7 8 7 9 ( 10) 6 6 5 5 53.00
8 US 637 MEADE IV, JOE DNF 12 9 (DNS) 4 4 1 4 2 56.00
9 US 4512 MADDEN, STEVE (M) 10 10 DNS 6 6 (DNS) 11 7 6 76.00
10 US 5805 GLUCKMAN, RICHARD 6 11 10 11 ( 12) 10 10 9 9 76.00
11 US 4596 MEYER, CHRIS 13 14 13 12 13 9 9 11 (DNS) 94.00
12 US 5573 FOWLER, NEIL 9 4 11 8 9 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS 101.00
13 US 5440 BISHOP, RICK 12 6 8 10 11 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS 107.00
14 US 4619 POLYBLANK, GUY 11 7 12 (DNS) 16 11 12 DNS DNS 109.00
15 US 5023 STANTON, JOHN 14 15 14 13 14 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS 130.00
16 US 4287 ATKINS, JOHN DNF 16 15 14 15 (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 140.00
17 US 4626 GERVAIS, PAUL (S) 15 DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 155.00
18T US 3301 HAAG, BOB DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 160.00
19T US 4032 SCHUMACHER, ROBERT (M) DNF DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 160.00
Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds
A pair of photographers were on Lake Monona shooting the 2017 DN Western Region regatta. They have posted their photo set on Flickr and are encouraging us to download and use as we like.
“My wife and a I had a great time Saturday and Sunday Jan. 7-8 watching the DNs race on Lake Monona and taking a few photos. I’ve put 26 photos up in a album on my Flickr page, here is the link:
Possibly somebody will enjoy a picture of themselves; the images are full-resolution and free to download with my compliments. Managed to catch both champions including #183 with quite a bit of air under one of his blades.
Thank you, we met some nice people and enjoyed being spectators.”
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