Hey Gang,

thought I'd through some words to the group and get ideas out on the
table prior to our conference call at the end of the month.

Our Moose Regatta will take place June 29 - July 1 this year in
Dryden Ontario. I know this conflicts with Steve's Door County
Breeze regatta (again this year!) and I apologize. In earlier
discussions with Steve, I had told him we'd adjust our event around
his as he has been doing 'The Breeze' much longer, but we have
fishing events either weekend of our Moose Regatta and having to
deal with piles of boat traffic is not ideal, hence the weekend it
is again this year.

Really looking forward to travelling down to Iowa May 4-6 for their
inagural Corn Husker(?) regatta! I'll be racing Kevin Gratton's old
formula board, so I'm sure some of his sailing mojo is still in the
straps and I'll surely benefit from that!! I'll also be practicing
my flying starts charging down the line to the port marker covering
our speedy friend Arden!

Cheers,

Woody - CAN757

With my new formula board (Kevin's old one) I'll be practicing my flying starts, so sharpen the 'cover' skills! LOL!!

Looking forward to a fun filled MOWIND regatta season ahead!

Woody - CAN757

----- Original Message -----

Again, Des Moines, IA  will have its first event this year May 5th and
6th (fun racing Friday 4th) 1st Annual Lake Sailorville Regatta.

The Woody's are confirmed, so that means that Kevin G and Don has to be
here to cover CAN 757 on the line. I will send a flyer out by the end
od this week to the group. Kevin, are you still able to help me with
some of the stuff for that weekend?

- Uffe


--- In mowind@yahoogroups.com, "Jack" <drjacksonwiley@...> wrote:
>
> I checked with Bill Keitel and he confirmed that the Worthington
> Regatta will be June 8, 9, 10, 2007.
>
> I would also like to know when the Wind Power races will be.  The
> Walleye, and Champs.
>

I checked with Bill Keitel and he confirmed that the Worthington
Regatta will be June 8, 9, 10, 2007.

I would also like to know when the Wind Power races will be.  The
Walleye, and Champs.

Crap! I wish I could be there for some fun on the ice with ya'll, but I've gotta go to a hockey tourney with my youngest son for the weekend. You know us Canadian's: hockey first, then other sports!

Have fun everybody!

Woody

----- Original Message -----

Hey Arnie!

We watched you on KARE 11 last night. That's awesome coverage dude, way to go! It's also good to see you 'online'.

All the best,

Woody & Woodette

----- Original Message -----

Kevin:What diference one week ago the river was open shore to shore.It
started freezing up on Mon. By yesturday, it was back to it's normal
winter state. Open in the bay,where it joins the mississippi
river.Kare11 shot some video that played on 5PM,10PM .Missed the
5pm,caught the 10. Pumped up to ice edge. GPS 5.1 kts max.2 sec.in
smooth water next to ice pack. Found some slides from Dec.1984 fresh
snow ,blue skies,great reflections on water. Arnie

Our Moose Regatta will be on June 29, 30, July 1 weekend. I know this conflicts with Steve's regatta again and I apologize. There are fishing events here in Dryden either weekend of our regatta weekend and a change would have meant dealing with a whole pile of boat traffic...not ideal.

Looking forward to an active racing season in 2007, starting in the corn capital of the world, IOWA!!

Woody - CAN757

----- Original Message -----

I spoke with Kevin earlier in December, we would like to add an event
in the "Center of MOWIND's midwest region" early in the season so we
don't step on anyones toes for dates, two weeks before Kevin's
Walleye Regatta we would like to host an event in Des Moines, IA the
weekend of May 5th and 6th. It would be the season opener for the
race series this year. Let's make sure it gets included when the
schedule is discussed.

- Uffe
USWE 22




--- In mowind@yahoogroups.com, Del Carpenter <delcarpenter@...> wrote:
>
> Rod Clevenger assured me the Open class will be included in the
Toledo
> Open.  Apparently there is an error on the USWA site regarding the
> Toledo event.
>
> Del Carpenter
>
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Jeff & Bonnie Koeberl wrote:
>
> > I don't know about anyone else, but I'm beginning to plan my year
for
> >  vacations and for that reason am anxious to see what the 2007
MOWIND
> >  schedule will look like. The US Windsurfing schedule is taking
> >  shape. Any of the Race Directors out there given any thought yet
to
> >  dates for your races? I'd like to see a discussion here to help
> >  facilitate that.
> >
> >  Kevin - maybe you could send your message to all the email
addresses
> >  you usually aim at to ask them to join this discussion?
> >
> >
> >
>

Rod Clevenger assured me the Open class will be included in the Toledo
Open.  Apparently there is an error on the USWA site regarding the
Toledo event.

Del Carpenter

On Jan 5, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Jeff & Bonnie Koeberl wrote:

> I don't know about anyone else, but I'm beginning to plan my year for
>  vacations and for that reason am anxious to see what the 2007 MOWIND
>  schedule will look like. The US Windsurfing schedule is taking
>  shape. Any of the Race Directors out there given any thought yet to
>  dates for your races? I'd like to see a discussion here to help
>  facilitate that.
>
>  Kevin - maybe you could send your message to all the email addresses
>  you usually aim at to ask them to join this discussion?
>
>
>

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm beginning to plan my year for
vacations and for that reason am anxious to see what the 2007 MOWIND
schedule will look like.  The US Windsurfing schedule is taking
shape.  Any of the Race Directors out there given any thought yet to
dates for your races?  I'd like to see a discussion here to help
facilitate that.

Kevin - maybe you could send your message to all the email addresses
you usually aim at to ask them to join this discussion?

I just noticed that the 2007 MOWIND standings were not in our file
out here, so I added them just now.  I had completed and updated
them right after Mille Lacs, but somehow managed to goof up storing
them where everyone else could see them - sorry!  You may deduct it
from my salary.

Except for the TABA posting, been kind of quiet here.  Anyone else
getting on the water?  My lake was froze over in early December and
we had a couple of great days on the Snowfer - perfect ice.
Fortunately that ice has since melted, and I have had many great
sessions on the water since.  Missed the (boaring) second half of
the Wisconsin game on New Year's day in 15-25 wind for a couple
hours.  Likewise, got to cut out on our Xmas guests early in the
afternoon to enjoy a nice afternoon on the water alone that day.
Looks like another week or more of the same with weather in the 30's
& 40's for another week.

I know Kevin & co. have been on the ice on Windybago, how is that
going?

PS:  TABA - I too am hoping that it was an oversight when you did
not include an Open Class for the Toledo event!

PPS:  Keep an eye on the photo's section.  I have some great
pictures from Hatteras where we were able to celebrate
Kevin's 'crowning' as Windsurfer of the Year.  Fortunately, nobody
was hurt during the photo shoot.  But it was close...

I am disappointed the Open Class is not included in the June 2-3 Toledo
Open listing on the USWA NRT schedule.
In 2006.   The national 1st place winner of the Open Class competed in
the Toledo Open in each of the 5 years of the USWA NRT (2002-2006).  In
3 of the five years the 1st place Open Class winner needed the Toledo
Open points to be the 1st place winner.

I made the 8.5 hour drive to Toledo in 2005 and 2006 just to compete in
the Open class.  My Toledo Open points got me 11th place in 2005 and
3rd place in 2006.  I'm coming again in 2007, if your listing on the
USWA NRT is changed to include the Open class.

In 2006 only 8 NRT events included the Open class.  In 2007 there 10
NRT events include the open class, (two more Florida events and the
nationals in San Francisco make the increase).  There would be 11 if
Toledo has an Open class.  I'm guessing Exocet sponsorship of the Kona
is part of why there are two new Florida events which have the Open
class.

Del Carpenter


On Jan 1, 2007, at 5:47 AM, reedlj2000@... wrote:

> TABA.......
> When is your Toledo Championship's Scedualed for 2007
> We are trying to set up a Spring Regatta Here in Central Iowa........ 
> And want to avoid any Conflict's......
> Larry Reed - IA01
>
>
>

Are you from the Toledo area? Have you been thinking about getting to
know the TABA members better?  Here is your chance.


Toledo Area Boardsailing Association
January 2007

2007 kick off dinner date is Thursday Jan 18th 2007 ...

Take some time from skiing or couchsurfing and join us for the 2007
TABA kickoff dinner. It will be at Gianno's again, 301 River Road,
Maumee.

We'll gather for libations at 6pm, order from the menu, and eat about
7pm.

RSVP to Denny by Sunday, Jan. 14th, email   dennis@...

Pay your 2007 membership at the dinner, $20 single , $30 Family

Thank you for posting that link.  This is a nice 4 min video.  I
managed to download a copy (11MB) in case anyone wants it later.

--- In mowind@yahoogroups.com, Arden Anderson <ardenalan@...> wrote:
>
> A video of the KARE11 broadcast covering the 25th running of the
Mille Lac's crossing can be found at:
>
> http://www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx?aid=35903&bw=
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Arden
>

Kevin,

Congratulations.  What Renee' neglected to mention was that in the
even earlier years you were one of the 1st (if not the first) Great
Lakes Regional Reps for USWinsurfing (Known at the time as USBA, B =
Boardsailing for you youngsters) and that you also taught the Mistral
Instructor Certification courses.

While you are the Windsurfer of the Year for 2006, it was your
sportsmanship, competitiveness, and helpfulness in the 1980's and
1990's that I recall fondly about you.  No matter who was having
technical difficulties (whether equipment or technique), you were
always there to offer assistance so that everyone could compete.  Glad
to hear you haven't changed.

Judging by how well the Midwest continues to represent at the national
events it appears the competition is as good as ever, keep up the good
work and again, congrats.

Linus

WOW! Congratulations Kevin!

You see, I told you good things will hapen to you when you sold me your formula board!

Woody

PS. Woodette says the necklace is working!!

----- Original Message -----

I found out that this domain name has been spamming all of the
Yahoo!groups.  This new member should be deleted.

Quote follows:

If you run a Yahoo Groups list beware of of new members from the
domain u.umacr.net . This is a spammer that appears to be joining as
many lists as possible. A while back the attack was on radio related
lists and now the attack has moved to railroad lists. (He even tried
to spam the list for my friend's 7 1/2" gauge live steam railroad.)

I've never seen this spammer use a Yahoo profile. All of the requests
to join lists have come via email. I operate several lists and this
spam attack seems to be quite thorough. The spammer appears to be
working his way through Yahoo by topics.

It's easy to catch junk like this if you set the list up so that new
members must be approved and new member posts are moderated. If you
don't do this you are putting out the welcome mat for junk. (Also, if
you set up your list so that the members can view the members list you
are inviting spam harvesters to send junk to your members.)

Finally, if you're on a list that forwarded the spam from u.umacr.net
you know that the list owner does nothing to protect you from junk
email. No need to even mention the hazards of lists that allow
attachments.

Congratulations, Kevin.  It's a recognition well deserved.

And thank you to whoever nominated Kevin this time.

Del