Attention, Attention, Attention: Membership Alert

by | Nov 4, 2019 | 2019, Home Page

“Radically Participate”, become a member and vote!

Renew Membership
As Commodore Warren Nethercote wrote previously, the important postal vote regarding IDNIYRA class governing WILL happen this month. The ballots have been printed and will soon be collated, stuffed in envelopes, stamped, and mailed to North American members on November 9, 2019. There’s been a good response to our membership drive, but there are a few who have not renewed memberships for 2020. Please take a moment to renew online today so that your vote is counted.

If you have any questions about your membership, please contact Secretary Deb Whitehorse secretary@gmail.com.

International DN History Trophy Case

by | Oct 23, 2019 | 2019, Home Page


Polish DN sailor, Romuald Rowecki P25, shared these two pictures of his DN trophy case. Note the big North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club Red Bank, NJ sticker in the back and the bold graphics from the 1977 Gold Cup. Romuald was in the first group of Europeans that traveled to North America to sail at the 1971 championship. (Runner Tracks September 2019).  Romuald also wrote an article for the May issue of Runner Tracks detailing the history of DN sailing in Poland.

Notice for Submission of Annual Meeting Proposals

by | Oct 15, 2019 | 2019, 2020, Home Page


Please submit all proposals for the 2020 IDNIYRA North American Annual Governing Meeting by October 26, 2019.
You can email them to the Secretary: secretary.idniyra@gmail.com

IDNIYRA Constitution
ARTICLE VIII – MEETING AND QUORUM
All proposals to be made at the IDNIYRA Annual Meeting shall be submitted to the Governing Committee in writing ninety
(90) days prior to the meeting

Randy Johnson US4000

by | Oct 14, 2019 | 2019, Home Page

Courtesy Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club Facebook page

Obituary
Life long ice sailor, Randy Johnson US4000, passed on October 3, 2019. Randy was a member and former Commodore of the Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club in Michigan. The entire DN community extends our condolences to Randy’s family and to the members of the Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club. Randy finished 2nd place in the Worlds event when it was held at Gull Lake in 1973 and placed 28th in Poland for the Worlds in 1975. He continued to sail competitively all his life.
Randy made sure Gull Lake grew ice every winter through his official role as the “ice seeder” for the Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club.
The memorial service to celebrate Dale’s life will be held Monday, October 28th at 11:00 a.m. at the Grace Spring Bible Church located at 8643 Gull Road Richland, MI 49083.

Courtesy of the Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club Facebook page

 

DN Sailing on Lake Baikal in March 2020

by | Oct 13, 2019 | 2019, 2020, Home Page


Become part of an international community that comes together every March to sail on one of the most remote places on the planet, Lake Baikal in Siberia. Those of you from North America who are attending the 2020 Gold Cup in Europe have an opportunity to get your DN to Lake Baikal via the Trans Siberian railway. Jorg Bohn G-737 explains it all below.
What to Know: Lake Baikal 2020

Going East!

Have your ever considered going to Lake Baikal?
Here is why it’s worth the trip!

By DN G-737 Jörg Bohn

The Baikal Short “Love“ Story!
Since 2012 I’ve traveled every year to Siberia and the Far East to go ice sailing.
In 2012, I heard about the Lake Baikal event from British ice sailor, Chris Williams K-1.
The logistics of getting our iceboats to Siberia were solved that first time with help of our Russian ice sailing friends in Moscow and the Trans Siberian Railway. We flew to Irkutsk from Europe through Moscow. We arrived in Irkutsk early Friday morning, one day ahead the event.
A minibus was waiting for us at the airport, thanks to our hosts, and took us straight to the sailing area called “Little Sea“ (Sarma), opposite of Olchon Island, to a place called Uyota. Even though, I was tired it wasn’t possible to fall asleep on that five hour ride. I had never before in my life seen such a wide open beautiful mountain landscape. Thousands of cattle and horses were scattered on both sides of the road and sometimes right in front us. Half way into our trip we stopped for a delicious meal at a roadside restaurant made by the indigenous Burjatien people.

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