Cody Fritz – Montgomery 10

Mike Koss – Catalina 22

Racing – July 1, 2025

Tom Jones – Mutineer

The Classic Lightning Regatta – 2025

By Jim Force Picture a perfect summer day–blue sky, puffy white clouds, green hills bordering a sparklinglake.Now picture the same scene lined with brilliant white triangles and brightly colored puffsmoving along that shoreline.That was the scene the weekend of June 21-22 as 26 one…

Racing – 6/10/25

Hi All, Here are the results for the first night of racing.  Conditions went from light moderate to light to hardly nothing at all over the course of 2 races.  I had good luck working the left side of the course, as the wind…

Lake Pepin Messabout

Early Saturday morning, I picked up my brother in law John, and headed over to Lake Pepin to check out the Messabout event. We were not able to launch Moonshine from the launch near the Messabout campground, as the parking lot was 100% full at 9AM. …

Governor’s Cup 2024

Here are results for today’s Governor’s Cup racing. We managed to get in 2 races before lunch today in a light to moderate breeze from the East.  More wind was forecast for the afternoon, but instead the wind died during lunch.   The weather outlook…

Apostle Islands Cruise 2024

31-aug-24 Apostle Islands Cruise 2024 A good showing was seen for the annual LDBSA Cruise, this year held in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin’s Bayfield County/ Redcliff Band Chippewa Reservation. The boats and crews were Not named, Norseboat 17: John Richter and…

Racing – 9/3/24

“A Classic Experience” by Jim Force

After several years of wanting to participate but letting other things get in the way, I finally signed up for the Classic Lightning Regatta in the Finger Lakes region in New York State in late June. Glad I went. I didn’t trail my boat…