Photo by Pat Dunsworth Exciting racing off the Okoboji shoreline... Exciting racing off FALL/WINTER 2008 ORGANIZED 1897 INCORPORATED 1957 V OL. 52 NO. 3 PAGE 2 SCOW SLANTS FALL/WINTER 2008 I.L.Y.A. Board of Directors Directors at Large: Leslie Barkow E-mail: [email protected] 5124 Maple Lane Web Site: www.ilya.org Nashotah, WI 53058 Home: (262) 367-3777 Standing Committees: [email protected] Fleet Representatives: Rules Committee Fletcher Driscoll Rob Evans (or Todd Haines) Chuck Lamphere, Chair 28 Peninsula Road Dellwood, MN 55110 One Design A Scow Home: (651) 429-0642 1477 North Arm Dr. Race Management and Judges Committee Office: (651) 426-8315 Orono, MN 55364 James A. Smith Chip Mann, Chair [email protected] Executive Secretary Home: 952-472-7545 P. O. Box 311 Office: 612-275-6010 US SAILING and National Peter Friend Fontana, WI 53125 revans@masters of sail.com Championship Events N30 W28735 Lakeside Dr. Phone: (262) 203-7721 Unassigned Pewaukee, WI 53072 Fax: (262) 203-7722 Bill Wyman Home: (262) 691-3119 Cell: (262) 745-1422 E Scow Nominating Committee Office: (414) 566-4571 1373 Waugoo Tom Hodgson, Chair v11@wi .rr.com Oshkosh, WI 54901 Home: (920) 426-1116 Trophy Committee Chuck Lamphere Flag Officers: [email protected] Leslie Barkow, Chair 907 N. Sheridan Road Lake Forest, IL 60045 Candace Porter Publications Committee Fred C. Barkow Home: (847) 735-0409 Commodore Suzi Reese, Chair C Scow Office: (847) 634-2300 N9322 Beulah park Drive 4804 White Swan Dr. Summer (262) 275-8609 East Troy, WI 53120 Regatta Coordinating West Bend, WI 53095 Committee [email protected] Home: (262) 642-7893 Cell: (262) 893-3981 Mark Prange, Chair Cell: (262) 441-0229 [email protected] Chip Mann [email protected] Appeals Committee 2606 W. Lake Park Ct. Geoff Catlin Tom Hodgson, Chair Mequon, WI 53092 Mark Prange Home: (262) 238-1535 I-20 Scow Vice Commodore Legal Committee Office: (262) 643-4041 1535 S. Park Ave. W334 N5897 Road M Dixon Tews, Chair [email protected] Neenah, WI 54956 Nashotah, WI 53058 Home: (920) 725-8795 Home: (262) 966-4953 Class X Boat Committee Margaret Osmundson Cell: (920) 725-8095 [email protected] John Murphy 14799 Boulder Pointe Road [email protected] W334 N6010 Road M Eden Prairie, MN 55347 Nashotah, WI 53058 Rick Trester Home: (952) 937-9170 Noel Neuman Home: (262) 370-2692 Secretary/Treasurer Lake: (641) 357-5513 MC Scow [email protected] 4608 Cedar Park Dr. [email protected] 8340 50th Ave. N West Bend, WI 53095 New Hope, MN 55428 Optimist Dinghy Committee Stephen Schmidt Home: (262) 644-8398 Suzi Reese, Chair Home: (763) 535-7601 20285 Wynfield Lane Office: (262) 790-0700 25620 West Longbeach Dr. Cell: (612) 483-0784 Brookfield, WI 53045 [email protected] Ingleside, IL 60041 [email protected] Home: (847) 546-4430 Home: (262) 789-8136 Office: (262) 814-0080 Tom Hodgson [email protected] Jan Gill [email protected] Past Commodore M Scow Youth Development Cmte. 2287 Case Ave. 3242 W. Windward Pass Aaron Mann, Chair Jack Strothman Maplewood, MN 55119 Springfield, MO 65810 W334 W. Lake Park Ct. 4200 IDS Center Home: (651) 248-1058 Cell: (612) 803-2353 Mequon, WI 53092 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Office: (651) 962-5976 [email protected] Home: 262-238-1535 Home: (952) 474-7018 [email protected] [email protected] Office: (612) 371-3254 [email protected] Mary Anne Ward Measurer Melges 17 Scow Dave Schmidt Beth Wyman 750 N. Atlantic Ave. #803 4769 Highland Dr. 1373 Waugoo Cocoa Beach, FL 32726 Slinger, WI 53086 Oshkosh, WI 54901 Phone: (321) 243-9458 Home: (262) 644-1732 Home: (920) 426-1116 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] FALL/WINTER 2008 SCOW SLANTS PAGE 3 Looking for 2009 ILYA ILYA REGATTA SCHEDULE P. O. Box 311 Classifieds? Fontana, WI 53125 NA M Scow Invitational Phone: (262) 203-7721 None Scheduled Fax: (262) 203-7722 ILYA Web site NA A Scow Invitational E-mail: [email protected] None Scheduled Web Site: http://www.ilya.org June 19-21 I-20 Scow Invitational and classifieds are M-16 Scow Championship Cedar Lake (Wis.) Yacht Club SCOW SLANTS (ISSN 0195-1424, #USPS Early Entry Deadline: June 6 486-580), the official publication of the Inland up to date TBD Youth Championship Laser, Laser Radial, Club 420 Lake Yachting Association Inc., is published Site: TBD three times per year (Spring, Summer, Fall/Win- with the latest Early Entry Deadline: TBD ter) by ILYA Publications, c/o James A. Smith, July 9-12 MC Scow Invitational W4166 Maple Court, Lake Geneva, Wis. This is Clear Lake Yacht Club the Fall/Winter, 2008 issue. bargains! Early Entry Deadline: June 26 Postmaster: Send change of address to: July 9-12 E Scow Invitational Pewaukee Yacht Club ILYA SCOW SLANTS, P.O. Box 311, Fon- There are lots Early Entry Deadline: June 26 tana, WI 53125. Second class postage paid at July 16-19 C Scow Invitational Fontana, Wis. and additional mailing offices. Minnetonka Yacht Club $20.00 of membership dues is for annual sub- of ads on our Early Entry Deadline: July 2 scription. Single copy $5.00. July 24-26 Melges 17 Scow Championship Advertising rates: Display ads, $15 per column web site at Site: Minnetonka Yacht Club inch (b/w) ($415 per full page, $525 in color). Early Entry Deadline: July 11 Package contracts with web site and e-news ads TBD Optimist Racing Clinic East www.ilya.org. No Guns, No Tears, No Protests are available. Classified ads, 20 cents per word Site: LaBelle Yacht Club including "For Sale," name and address. Mini- Early Entry Deadline: TBD mum charge of $10.00. Bold face 25 cents per TBD Optimist Racing Clinic West word. Double charge for new boats and equip- Visit now! No Guns, No Tears, No Protests TBD ment. Cash with order. Inquiries to ILYA, P.O. Early Entry Deadline: TBD Box 311, Fontana, WI 53125 or email Check it daily! July 22-25 X Championships [email protected]. Gull Lake Yacht Club Early Entry Deadline: July 10 Light Up Your Life! July 27-29 Optimist Dinghy Championship Red, Blue, White and Green Everybody loves the new ILYA crystal cube championship Site: Lake Beulah Yacht Club trophies. If you have been fortunate enough to win one, now Early Entry Deadline: July 15 you can LIGHT IT UP with an attractive base. The base August 12-15 Annual Championship Classes E, C, I-20, operates by AC or battery and shoots a beam up into the Green Lake Yacht Club trophy, producing a terrific effect. Early Entry Deadline: July 25 Pre-order Special! Save $5. Order before or during the August 15-18 Annual Championship Classes AOD, MC, Winter Inland and pay only $25 plus shipping per base. Green Lake Yacht Club After the Winter Inland pay $30 each plus shipping. Early Entry Deadline: July 25 Contact Jim Smith at ScowSlants@aol or call 262-203-7721. (All dates include registration periods) 1UANTUM )NLAND3AILS3UPPORTS /PTIMIST 8 "OAT -ETRE -ELGES -ELGES ! 3COW 2ENEGADE # 3COW ) - $. 3KEETER -# 3COW -ELGES % 3COW .ITE ,ANDSAILERS #OVERSINALLSTYLES CUSTOMCANVAS 2EPAIRSOFONALLSAILSIZESANDMUCHMORE 4ODD*ERRED0HOTOS *IM'LUEKs%RIC7ILSONs%RIC/PPEN +ETTLE#OURT%AST $ELAFIELD 7) 4EL s&AX 7EBWWWDESTINATIONONEDESIGNCOM %MAILINLANDSAILS MSNCOM 1UANTUM-INNESOTA"ILL!LLEN %NJOYTHEQUALITYANDDURABILITYOFALOCALLY BUILTSAILBYATEAMYOUCANTRUST FALL/WINTER 2008 SCOW SLANTS PAGE 5 Commodore's Corner We are building memories to cherish... This marks my last Commodore’s smiliest set of best-friend girls and boys; enjoying this sport more than ever. All Corner. I come to this point with great they sail circles around the sailors of ten the increased sailing (youth and adult) satisfaction on many fronts. You have years ago. The skill is improving each results in problems creating regatta made this two years a real treasure I will year and the fun continues as each new venues and experiences in which all of us hold dear. set of sailors enters our club—and can participate. This is our biggest This week my dear friend Joni ILYA—sailing. challenge, and I look for our Board to Palmer asked me to send photos of our And we are converting our junior present new structures, sites and sched- ILYA youth. This gathering of pictorial sailors to scows better than in the past. ules. memories brought back recollections of Our 2008 promotional action, providing a Promotion remains key to all we do. my first love of this organization and 50% discount to our youth (or first time It pervades all aspects of our beloved realization of our progress. As I viewed sailors) at regattas, has been successful. sport; yet, we all struggle to find the time the sailors from Opti to college age, and Eleven youth attended our C Invite, and 9 it deserves. While the ILYA has tried a then viewed my photos of the recent traveled to Okoboji for the C champs. sailing director, youth incentives, support ILYA Championships in Oshkosh and This compares to 2 and 4 in 2007. Given to our fleets for new, creative ideas, the Okoboji, I realized we are on the right the distance to Okoboji, this increase is base of promotion begins at home. Our track. even more compelling. The MC Invite fleet committees will begin work in Our youth programs are incredibly had 2 junior participants in 2007 and 9 in earnest this Winter Inland to stimulate a strong. The clubs with X boats are 2008, and 3 champ participants in 2007 grassroots effort. One of the proudest growing in numbers. Three of our clubs compared to 10 this year.