Photo: Dideric van RIemsdijk
Sharpen your runners! Breaking news from northern Sweden today. The Swedish ice sailors are first in the world as far as we know to pull the string on the hard-water and open the new season. Congratulations to our Swedish ice sailing friends.
If I’m reading the translation correctly, members of the Stockholm Ice Yacht Club in Ranängen, Sweden, have plowed the ice at their clubhouse today in anticipation of setting up NORA, a vintage Swedish stern-steerer. If only this were possible on Mendota! Source: Stockholms Isjaktklubb Facebook page.
There is no 4LIYC racing scheduled for February 6-7, 2021. Too much snow! The next 4LIYC racing update will be Friday, February 12, 2021, by 5 PM.
From left to right is Ivar Steffner, Gustav Lindén, Wilhelm Alness, Axel Steffner, Oskar Svensson, Rasmus Söderman.
From Ron Rosten, just returned from the Junior World Championship:
Parallel Universe. The gentleman standing behind Team Sweden is Uppsala’s Kjell Mattsson. Every DN in Uppsala, Sweden has been built, repaired, or upgraded in Mr. Mattsson’s shop. Does this sound familiar to anyone in Madison with an almost identical last name?
National Iceboat Authority Web Page
Location: In person at the Elks Lodge 711 Jenifer St, Madison, WI 53703
Time: 6:30 PM
YOU ARE SKIPPER NUMBER
TO ROUND THE MARK SINCE NOVEMBER 1999.
