The Consultant

by | Feb 14, 2023 | 2022-2023, Home Page

Dash and PK

4LIYC members have been diligently creating content on our Facebook page while I’ve been in Sweden. Here’s another Facebook post, too good not to post on the website, via Daniel Hearn.

4LIYC Skeeter guys, Kenny Whitehorse and Paul Krueger, flew in a heavyweight coach over the weekend in their quest for more speed. Dash Percevecz (Daniel Hearn’s grandson) reports that, “the guys have potential, but they are easily distracted by beer and pretty girls. They also need to upgrade their kit. I mean really…who considers blue jeans a performance fabric?”

MARY B Makes a Visit

by | Feb 14, 2023 | 2022-2023, Home Page, WSSA

MARY B visits the old neighborhood.

Madison’s historic stern-steerer, MARY B, has been set up on Lake Mendota for the past few weekends at the Frozen Assets Festival and the University of Wisconsin Winter Carnival. The Iceboat Foundation volunteers made the special visit, a stop in front of Mauretta Mattison’s house.

Via Don Anderson of the Iceboat Foundation

We took MARY B to Bill and Mauretta Mattison’s house for a photo shoot. Mauretta came out and took a picture, and Bill helped build many parts of this boat, including the current mast, which Bill signed.

Photo by Jeff Miller | University Communications Hundreds of people watch as fireworks launch into the night sky above an inflatable replica of the Statue of Liberty’s head, arm and torch on frozen and ice-covered Lake Mendota during the conclusion of the Wisconsin Union’s Winter Carnival on Feb. 11, 2023. The event was held along the shoreline of the Memorial Union Terrace at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Lady Liberty tradition began with a prank in 1979 by the Pail and Shovel Party.

Regatta Watch: 2023 Wisconsin Stern-Steerers Regatta Postponed

by | Feb 13, 2023 | Home Page, NIYA, Regattas

2010 Northwest on Lake Winnebago. Photo Gretchen Dorian

The 2023 Wisconsin Stern Steering Association regatta has been postponed to February 25 and 26. The next update will be Sunday, February 19. Check back here at that time. The Northwest Ice Yacht Association regatta takes precedence.

Andy Gratton

WSSA Secretary/Treasurer

4LIYC Racing Update: No Racing for Feb 11-12, 2023

by | Feb 11, 2023 | Home Page

Class A Skeeters hiking out at the 2016 Northwest on Lake Monona, Madison, WI. Photo: Joe Stanton

There will be no club racing this weekend Feb. 11-12. Ice checkers found 2-3“ of stiff snow with a layer of water underneath before reaching hard ice. Hopefully the warm temps and sun will turn the top snow to liquid and then we’ll get a hard freeze. Keep’m sharp!
4LIYC Commodore Daniel