Ice Boat Regatta, DN Class, Sweden.

What do you think of this title? I don't see how "price fixing" fits in, do you? Check out Boat US article on ice boating too! That mag arrived in my mail last week. Jerry --- On Mon, 3/9/09, Chris Campbell <cl… [at] charterinternet.com> wrote: From: Chris Campbell <cl… [at] charterinternet.com> Subject: Re: WAS: [Cal_Boats] Re: West Marine Price Fixing; now Scuttlebutt To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 9:50 AM jonathan.myers@ peco-energy. com wrote: Chris Campbell: I came across this article and link and thought you might enjoy it: * It is not too often when a pro sailing shooter attends a hard water event, but Oskar Kihlborg was in Sweden for the Ice Optimist and DN Junior World Championship, Thanks for the link. For non-iceboaters, note the mast bend and the runner plank (the transverse plank holding the after two runners) bend in some of the pics. This is how an iceboat absorbs gusts. Well, it's a good way. The other way is by what we would cal heeling, or hiking in iceboat terms, or lifting a runner. If you lift it too far, you capsize and perhaps have surgery later, as I did a couple years back. The bendy-mast, bendy-plank approach is better. Our soft-water boats heel to do the same thing. As the mast bends it flattens the sail, as we know. My boat, being of the old design, has a not-so-bendy mast and plank, and has a nylon sail that stretches out when the gust hits, a bad plan. Chris Campbell and has provided the ‘buttheads with a rare look into this exciting segment of the sport: http://www.sailings cuttlebutt. com/photos/ 09/0307 Both your letter and the photos in Sailing, regarding the schooner Madelaine, were interesting, but better yet was meeting Tom & Chris Gibson recently and chatting up tall boats. Jon Myers Sometime ballast aboard Cal 29 Bay Breeze Volunteer crew aboard Gazela Otherwise serving Melusine, Sabre 34 MkI #094 Swan Creek, MD From: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Cal_ Boats@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Chris Campbell Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:01 PM To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: West Marine Price Fixing