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The New England Ice Yacht Association

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This season has been very kind to ice boaters and we still have lot's of ice around. check the hot line for info about the DN North American Championship scheduled for this up coming weekend. Also stay tuned for the possibly of a Spring Frolic this year, Winnie looking Good this year Don't forget to review our newsletter below for more detailed reports on ice happenings throughout New England and beyond. NEIYA newletter BLACK ICE is right here. Thanks, Steve Lamb Commodore

Maine DN State Championship February 13th 2010   2010 MAINE STATE DN CHAMPIONSHIP Results Sailor Sail# Race Total Throwout     1 2 3 4 5 6 7     Steve Madden 4512 1 X 2 3 4 4 4 18 3 Bob Schumacher 4032 2 4 3 4 X 6 5 24 5 Chad Atkins 4487 3 2 1 X 2 1 2 11 1 Eric Anderson 5193 7 1 X 2 1 5 3 19 4 Harry Richardso 5148 4 7 7 7 9 3 7 35 7 Bob Crinion 4536 5 6 11 8 7 7 X 44 8 Brian Lamb 5018 10 11 DNS DNS 11 DNS X 65 12 Don Brush 4009 6 5 5 5 5 X 6 32 6 Doug Raymond 4272 9 8 8 6 6 10 9 46 9 Eben Whitcomb 4775 11 10 11 10 8 9 8 56 11 David Fortier 4690 8 9 6 9 10 8 10 50 10   Click on below images to enlarge Photo credits Bill Converse

 

Ice Videos by Jeff Brown February 17th Lake Winnepesaukee, NH

 

 

*For all sailors interested in supporting Club activities get your dues into our treasurer:

    Henry Capotosto
    78 Winchell Road
    Warwick, RI  02889
    (401)739-5894

Ice!!"Remember, There is always thin ice somewhere."  Check out the ice reports here.

• Check out adds for iceboat gear on the Classifieds have been updated.  More news as we get it.

• We've got an Email iceboat list through egroups... you can subscribe by clicking the link   IceBoating-subscribe@egroups.com and pressing 'send'.  The link will set up your email to send an add to list request.  You will automatically be added to the ice boating email list.  When you go to the site and register your email address you can get to a screen to set your email preferences.  Its cool.  If you want to get off the list completely you just send another email to the unsubscribe mail box  IceBoating-unsubscribe@egroups.com.  Try it you'll like it.



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Welcome to the New England Ice Yacht Association Resource Site.

This page is dedicated to hard water sailors and enthusiasts from every cut of cloth. We hope you'll stop by for a moment and see what we have to offer. We are here to promote ice boating in New England and on ice in general.  Please let us know what you are doing and tell us how are we are doing. Let us know what else you would like to see. And then..... sail safe.

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Some of the interesting information and articles available here are intended for both novice and advanced pilots.




• Volunteer to report ice conditions on a lake near you. Or, find out who has volunteered to check ice this season. Why not you?
• Read And Post an Ice Condition Reports on our frozen bulletin board has mooved. These notices have been posted by our members.    Next report please....
• Get local and regional weather reports.
• Unclassified ads
• Check out Bob Schumacher's fiberglass lay-up schedules for a number of his recent fiberglass masts; (we hope to get cleaner copies sometime soon). Find out about getting a copy of the DN60 official plans or the addresses where plans and materials can be obtained.
• Or, read articles on tuning, regattas management and sailing.
• Check it out.   Send in your article and win a prize if its selected best in class.
• Browse some of our photos from last season's races .
• The club by-laws and check out the recently updated 2008-2009 schedule. We could use some more copy writers.  If you're interested send in your articles.
• Useful Links assembled by the club.


Help us build this site with your suggestions. We are building a table of mast lay-up schedules, deflection measurements and performance assessments. It's slow work. If you want to share your information e-mail or snail mail the web master and tell us what you know. This site can be as useful as the club members what to make it. Pitch in and help. We're glad you stopped by and if you've got any suggestions drop the web master a line or submit some material and let us know how we're doing.


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All Points Bulletin: aka APB NEIYA is looking for volunteers to assist in club activities and special projects.  Job opportunities!.   Web site, Secretary, Treasurer, Video Library, Race Committee, Safety Committee, Year Book, Club News Promotional activities....all could use your help... Let us know how you could help. This is a volunteer organization so we depend on our members to make it all happen... 


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THE NEIYA "UNCLASSIFIED" ADDS
Buy, sell, trade, deal/swap... If you've got something to post, contact the web master or look for it ....  Check here for used equipment!

   Here at the Unclassifieds


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NEIYA notes:

NEIYA club and membership information

NEIYA  membership application   - using your printer, print out the application and mail it in to join NEIYA

Ice boat Hotline numbers

Suggestion Box. Send your comments to the Club Officers. Tell them what you want to have done to improve the club and club activities.


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WHERE TO GO WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ICE.
This section highlights destinations recommended by our contributors for ice boating activities of one sort or another.
If you can't sail today... try some of the other ice sailing links offered by visitors to our page from Sweden and the US of A.


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EVENTS & RESULTS Here you'll find news and some photos of this year's and last year's DN regattas in the New England region.
The current categories are as follows:

The updated 2005-2006 Events calendar.

The NEIYA's Hall of Fame Champions A compilation of regatta winners and club officers: 1970 through today.

The 2006 NEIYA Regatta Results

The 2005 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 2004 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 2003 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 2002 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 2001 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 2000 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 1999 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 1999 CIBC Regatta Results
The 1998 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 1997 NEIYA Regatta Results
The 1997, 1998 CIBC Regatta Results
The 1997 Connecticut State Championship Regatta Results
The 1996 Regatta Results

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RESOURCE INFORMATION

This section includes general interest information on, NEIYA, DN60 iceboats, ice boating related topic and a photo gallery.

Right of Way and Safety Requirements - NEIYA and IDNIYRA both accept the Racing Rules of the National Iceboat Authority.  This graphic originally sketched by Hal Chamberlain summarizes the rules.
Iceboat related tuning articles and stories - Join the competition for a valuable iceboat related prize.
Official plans for the DN60
Bob Schumacher's Fiberglass mast lay-up schedules
International DN Ice Yacht Racing Association (IDNIYRA) Web Page
Links to other Web Sites around the World - If you know of other interesting ice boat sites let us know so we can share them here with our visitors.

Photo Gallery - This link has been permanently out of commission while in search of more hard drive space....TBContinued. ....Here's the repository of all those great pictures that have been donated to the page and aren't on current display in our pages. If you've got some great pictures send them in and share them with our members. - Its kind of a nasty big file so if your connection is slow - try a again later when you get a faster one.. unless you like to wait...


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WEATHER LINKS

NBC Color National Radar Weather Map
NWS National Weather Service Site Lots of good information here at National Weather Service Site. You are paying big bucks for this site.
NWS Internet Weather A shortcut with fewer graphics - much faster and to the point.
Intellicast: Atlantic Satellite

Intellicast: New England Regional Summary

Metropolitan Quick-Looks for the U.S. & Canada check out the MRF surface forecast.

COLA North America Weather and Climate data  COLA North American Analysis Weather and Climate data

Intellicast: Connecticut Nexrad a local weather forecast is available from this link
Intellicast: Maine Nexrad a local weather forecast is available from this link
Intellicast: Massachusetts Nexrad a local weather forecast is available from this link
Intellicast: Rhode Island Nexrad a local weather forecast is available from this link
Intellicast: Vermont Nexrad a local weather forecast is available from this link.
Intellicast: Montreal Weather Forecast a local weather forecast - FYI.

National Weather Service : The local forecasts and warnings for major cities in the four states in southern New England: CT, MA, RI and NH.

The Interactive Weather Information Network from the National Weather Service.   The page provides  both comprehensive and top quality add free weather information.

Also, the hourly New England Regional condition report. 

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