are are The 420s coming! white type, black box Photo by Pat Dunsworth white type FALL/WINTER 2011 ORGANIZED 1897 INCORPORATED 1957 V OL. 55 NO. 3 black type PAGE 2 SCOW SLANTS FALL/WINTER 2011 I.L.Y.A. Board of Directors E-mail: [email protected] Fleet Representative Directors: Web Site: www.ilya.org Todd Haines Jack Boatman Directors at Large: One Design A Scow I-20 Scow W330 S3000 Road G 486 Mustang Lane Chris Andert Dousman, WI 53118 Fond du Lac, WI 54935 3354 Owasso Heights Road Cell: (414) 881-4119 Phone: (920) 924-7698 Shoreview, MN 55126 Office: 262968-9060 [email protected] Home: 651-484-5337 [email protected] Office: 651-456-2983 Jan Gill Sam Rogers M Scow [email protected] James A. Smith E Scow 3242 W. Windward Pass Executive Secretary 5050 Greenwood Circle Springfield, MO 65810 Vince Driessen Greenwood, MN 55331 Cell: (612) 803-2353 P. O. Box 311 4804 Golf Terrace Home: (952) 426-2330 [email protected] Fontana, WI 53125 Edina, MN 55424 [email protected] Phone: (262) 203-7721 Home: (952) 927-7352 Coye Harrett Fax: (262) 203-7722 [email protected] Fred C. Barkow Melges 17 Scow Cell: (262) 745-1422 C Scow 102 Montague Ed Cox 4804 White Swan Dr. Fontana, WI 53125 Cox Contracting LLC West Bend, WI 53095 Phone: (262) 325-7247 Flag Officers: 5925 Polar Bear Lane Cell: (262) 893-3981 [email protected] WB Township, MN 55110 [email protected] Carl Spencer Rick Trester Office: (651) 653-7744 [email protected] Al Haeger Optimist Dinghy Commodore MC Scow N22 W29140 Elmhurst Dr. 4608 Cedar Park Dr. Fletcher Driscoll 210 Timberline Dr. Pewaukee, WI 53072 West Bend, WI 53095 28 Peninsula Road Joliet, IL 60431 Home: (262) 691-9191 Home: (262) 644-8398 Dellwood, MN 55110 Home: (815) 725-5271 [email protected] Office: (262) 790-0700 Home: (651) 429-0642 Cell: (815) 347-2590 [email protected] Margaret Hollister [email protected] Office: (651) 426-8315 Club 420 [email protected] Peter Friend Martin Barr 4940 N. Maple Lane Vice Commodore Class X Nashotah, WI 53058 David Porter c/o Barr Mechanical Sales Home: (262) 369-0489 N30 W28735 Lakeside Dr. N9322 Beulah park Drive 13719 Laurel Dr. [email protected] Pewaukee, WI 53072 East Troy, WI 53120 Lake Forest, IL 60045 Home: (262) 691-3119 Home: (262) 642-7893 Home: (847) 367-4756 Mike Woldum Office: (414) 566-4571 Office: (414) 423-8776 [email protected] Youth Development v11@wi .rr.com [email protected] 4901 32nd Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55417 Stephen Schmidt Dale Norton Home: (612) 722-3441 Secretary/Treasurer 5600 S Lazy Ridge Pl. [email protected] 20285 Wynfield Lane Sioux Falls, SD 57108 Brookfield, WI 53045 Cell: (605) 310-6038 Standing Committee Chairs: Home: (262) 789-8136 Office: (605) 338-9722 Rules Committee Appeals Committee Office: (262) 814-0080 [email protected] David Porter, Chair Tom Hodgson, Chair [email protected] Margaret Osmundson Race Management Cmte. Legal Committee Mark Prange 14799 Boulder Pointe Road Chip Mann, Chair Jack Strothman, Chair Past Commodore Eden Prairie, MN 55347 W334 N5897 Road M Home: (952) 937-9170 Nominating Committee Foundation Cmte. Nashotah, WI 53058 Lake: (641) 357-5513 Mark Prange, Chair Mark Prange, Chair Home: (262) 966-4953 [email protected] [email protected] Trophy Committee Measurer Jack Strothman Leslie Barkow, Chair Dave Schmidt 80 S Eighth St. 4769 Highland Park Dr. Slinger, WI 53086 4200 IDS Center Promotion/Communication Home: (262) 644-1732 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Committee Chris Andert, Chair [email protected] Home: (952) 474-7018 Office: (612) 371-3254 Regatta Coordinating Cmte. US SAILING Representative [email protected] Peter Friend, Chair Margaret Osmundson FALL/WINTER 2011 SCOW SLANTS PAGE 3 Scow Slants to be published bi-annually Scow Slants publication will be archived on the ILYA web site. ILYA decreased to two issues per year starting Both issues of Scow Slants will P. O. Box 311 in 2012. Plans for 2012 include a spring/ cover general Association news includ- Fontana, WI 53125 summer issue to be prepared for distribu- ing Board of Director’s meetings. The Phone: (262) 203-7721 tion in late May, and a fall/winter issue to spring/summer issue of Scow Slants will Fax: (262) 203-7722 be prepared for distribution in December. continue to publish sanctioned regatta E-mail: [email protected] The popularity of the ILYA’s e- Notices of Race, along with any general Web Site: www.ilya.org newsletter, ScowLines, and its ability to information and notices regarding the SCOW SLANTS, the official publication of the present timely news and reports, includ- racing season. The fall/winter issue will Inland Lake Yachting Association Inc., is published ing daily regatta reports and photos, chronicle, for posterity, complete race re- two times per year (Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter) lessens the need for such to be repeated sults, and will preview the Association’s by ILYA Publications, c/o James A. Smith, W4166 in Scow Slants. All ScowLines articles are annual Winter Inland convention. Maple Court, Lake Geneva, Wis. This is the Fall/ Winter, 2011 issue. Send change of address to: ILYA , P.O. Box Distribution of Sailing Instructions to be 311, Fontana, WI 53125. $20.00 of membership dues is for annual sub- eliminated at regatta check-in scription. Single copy $10.00. All fleets in 2012 except Class X and the SIs, but will be posted as changes to the IOD will forego printed Sailing Instructions SIs on the Official Regatta Notice Board. 2012 ILYA at ILYA sanctioned events. The SIs will be The requirement that regatta partici- REGATTA SCHEDULE available on line (http://ilya.org/2012-ilya- pants sign in during the event on site check sanctioned-events-with-notice-of-race.html) in period remains. All participants must July 12-15 MC Scow Invitational Upper Lake Mtka Yacht Club along with the Notices of Race, and will be attest to their access to the event’s SIs, and Early Entry Deadline: June 29 posted on the Official Regatta Notice Board re-affirm their Waiver of Liability for the July 12-15 E Scow Invitational of the event. event as has been required when the SIs Gull Lake Yacht Club Online SIs will be marked as “Draft” were printed for distribution. Early Entry Deadline: June 29 until 48 hours prior to the regatta check-in Notices of Race will continue to be July 13-15 I-20 Scow Invitational Pewaukee Yacht Club time, at which time they will become “Fi- published in the Scow Slants spring/sum- Early Entry Deadline: June 30 nal.” Any changes within the 48 hours prior mer issue. July 13-15 Melges 17 Scow Championship to regatta check-in time will not be made in Pewaukee Yacht Club Early Entry Deadline: June 30 July 18-21 C Scow Invitational Lake Geneva Yacht Club Looking for regatta stories and photos? Early Entry Deadline: July 5 TBD Optimist Racing Clinic West Check the ScowLines reports for the dates of No Guns, No Tears, No Protests Okoboji Yacht Club the event. All issues of the ILYA e-newsletter, Early Entry Deadline: TBD July 23 Optimist Racing Clinic East ScowLines, are archived and accessible from No Guns, No Tears, No Protests Cedar Lake (Wis.) Yacht Club the front page of www.ILYA.org. Early Entry Deadline: July 9 July 25-28 X Championships Delavan Lake Yacht Club Early Entry Deadline: July 10 July 29-31 Optimist Dinghy Championship Red, Blue, White and Green Pewaukee Yacht Club Early Entry Deadline: July 15 August 9-12 Annual Championship Classes E, C, and I-20, Mendota Yacht Club Early Entry Deadline: July 25 high performance yachting apparel & hardware August 13-14 Youth Championship Laser, Laser Radial Lake Beulah Yacht Club 750 Veterans Parkway Suite 108 Early Entry Deadline: July 25 Lake Geneva, WI 53147 August 16-19 Annual Championship Class A, MC, Club 420 866-661-5454 Mendota Yacht Club Early Entry Deadline: July 25 262-248-8800 (All dates include registration periods) www.linehonors.com PAGE 4 SCOW SLANTS FALL/WINTER 2011 Commodore’s Comments ILYA events, hosts continue to excel 2011 has been I also need to thank all of our regatta afternoon cocktail party. This year our a great year to hosts for supporting our green initia- guest speaker will be Dave Perry. This serve as your tive. It was refreshing to attend all of our new format makes this event even more Commodore. events and not see plastic bottles, often informative with better social activities I have at- half empty, lying about or tossed in the than in the past. tended seven trash. The 2012 Annual Championship different ILYA Our emphasis on youth sailing paid will be a super event. We are returning to regattas as a competitor, race officer, or off this year. At our Annual Champion- Mendota after a 10-year absence. Your spectator. The dedication and attitude of ship about 30% of our competitors were regatta committee is made up of a mix of our regatta hosts has been phenomenal. under 25 years of age. I can’t remember Mendota Yacht Club members and ILYA Every event has combined the competi- another year where this age group was as representatives. This event will be a true tive spirit of our participants with great well represented. partnership between the two organiza- race officer work and truly entertaining In response to the growing participa- tions. Racing will be held over two con- social events. Our host clubs have made tion in high school and college sailing by secutive Friday, Saturday and Sundays all of the competitors and guests feel our membership, the board of directors with the A’s, E’s C’s, MC’s, I-20’s and welcome and have made the ILYA brand has sanctioned the club 420 as an ILYA 420’s participating.