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Matt Struble wins third place at DN Worlds #69523
03/17/06 09:02 PM
03/17/06 09:02 PM
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THE WEATHER DID NOT COOPERATE
208 Iceboat competitors from 18 nations traveled to Germany to compete
in the 37th World Championship in the DN Class. The primary location,
stated by the Finnish Organisation Committee had been Lake Pyhaejaervi,
Saekylae. Due to the weather conditions, all competitors had been
advised to relocate in Germany on the Lake Mueritz in a nice holiday
camp in the small city of Klink. The championship was to be sailed in
four groups starting with the "D" Fleet of which the top 12 boats were
able to advance into a higher fleet.

The US Team had 6 sailors in the Goldfleet and reigning World Champion,
Ron Sherry, US-44 was prepared to defend his title against the strong
Swedish, German and Polish DN sailors. The qualification races and a
first Goldfleet race were held in between snowstorms on the big Lake
Mueritz. The first three places were hard fought between US-44 and the
Polish sailors P-114, Michal Burczynski, and P-679, Jacob Schneider.
P-114 had a small speed edge and won the race which finished late that
day, close to 18.00h.

Time to get to the shore was not enough and a couple of sailors were
lost in the dark and in the snowstorm but with help of many friends,
directing them home with flashlights everybody was back at around
20.30h. Snow all night and temperature dropping to -17° did not help
improving the conditions and the race committee had to make the tough
decision to cancel further sailing in Germany and to travel to Sweden.
Motalla was the place to be. The search for safe conditions was
difficult and in the process the Finish sailor John Winquist lost his
boat, which sank down to 600m.

The World Championship was concluded on one day with only 3 more races,
no discard and many a favourite died. But not the young Polish sailor,
Michal Burczynski. He deserved the title which he won with an 8 point
lead to second, P - 155, Lukasz Zakrzewski, followed by American Matt
Struble US-3662. ~ Manfred C. Schreiber,
http://www.dn-finland.net/wc2006/

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Way to go Matt!!!!!!!! [Re: Mike Fahle] #69524
03/18/06 12:01 PM
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Congratulations on a GREAT finish!!!

Tom & Susan

Re: Matt Struble wins third place at DN Worlds [Re: Mike Fahle] #69525
03/18/06 03:52 PM
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Cat sailors convert to ice boats quite nicely.The tactics are very similar.Greg Smith from Kalamazoo Michigan, is another example of a good cat sailor(former Canadian national Hobie 16 champion)who also won the D.N. worlds back in the late 80,s.

Re: Matt Struble wins third place at DN Worlds [Re: Mike Fahle] #69526
03/20/06 08:44 AM
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Congratulations Matt!

The F17 fleet in Michigan is looking forward to your participation in their fleet this year! They are all talking about competing for 2nd place this year, and how much they expect to learn from Matt!


Les Gallagher

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