Previously: Where It All Began
If two subjects belong in the same photograph, it has to be ice yachts and the northern lights. The Dutch ice sailing club, De Robben, trailered traditional yachts to Rattvik, Sweden, for their annual ice sailing holiday at the same time the northern lights appeared. (Below is a photo from Mora, Sweden from their 2020 trip.)
Start of a Renegade race at the 2023 Renegade Championship on Lake Kegonsa. Photo: Kayla Wolf KAYLA WOLF PHOTO GALLERY
Freelance Photographer Kayla Wolf was there for the action Sunday on Lake Kegonsa at the ISA & Renegade Championship. Renegade and Nite sailors will want to make sure to look through her gallery for some fantastic shots. Link here
Nite sailors Mark Prange 550 and Tom Sweitzer 272 round the leeward mark.
PRO Joe Norton kept things moving.
Nite sailor Marek Valasek 444 finds some air and lift a runner
Renegades line up to race at the 2023 Renegade Championship on Lake Kegonsa, January 14, 2023. Photo: Will Johnston
RESULTS
A stronger breeze made it a wind hat trick on day three of the ISA and Renegade championships on Lake Kegonsa. The A & B Skeeters elected to watch the Nites and Renegades take to the course for spirited racing. All agreed they couldn’t remember when Mother Nature blessed the ISA with three sailable days. Renegaders discussed how this ISA was a record for them in the number of races (8.)
Many thanks to the Race Committee, including
Joe Norton, Jerry Simon, Scott Goetz, Paul McMillan, Afan Ottenhemier, and 4LIYC Commodore Daniel Hearn, who helped to organize the equipment. Also, many thanks to Ann Foeller, who tabulated remotely from Lake Erie’s shores and is a Toledo Ice Yacht Club member. And thank you to the many competitors who didn’t hesitate to pick up starting blocks, call numbers, and anything else to make the regatta run smoothly.
B Skeeter:1st Jason Thompson, 3rd Steve Schalk, and 2nd Jim Smith
C Skeeter, 1st Pat Heppert, 2nd Daniel Hearn
Our 2 Michigan Renegade guys, Mike Derusha and Pete Sarelis
Nite 1st: Tom Sweitzer
Nite 2nd, Dave Navin
Nite 4th, Brett Larson
Nite 5th, Peter Keck, 3rd Chad Rechcygl
Renegade: 2nd Daniel Hearn, 1st Mike Derusha, 3rd Greg McCormick, 4th Don Anderson
A Skeeter, 4th Tom Hyslop, 3rd Ken Whitehorse, 2nd Jay Yaeso, Steve Orlebeke, 1st John Dennis
Photographer Will Johnston joined us for a second year in a row for the 2023 ISA and Renegade Championship. He even hitched a ride in an airplane (friend of Jeff Russell’s) for some aerial shots. Will has generously shared a link to all of the photos. See all of them here. If you use Will’s photos for anything other than personal posts, please get in touch with me so I can give you his contact information.
DNs wait for wind on Lake Kegonsa, January 7, 2023. Photo: Jeff Russell.
It was iceboat central here in Four Lakes on January 7 – 8, 2023. The DN Western Region championship and the 4LIYC each had a course on Lake Kegonsa. Saturday’s lack of wind may not have been ideal for ice sailing, but it was a perfect day for landing a Super Cub. Renegader Jeff Russell stopped by to say hello to the DNs and then hopped over to join his fellow Renegaders at Springer’s.