We received the following leaflet from Joerg Bohn G-737 & Dideric van Reimsdijk S-867 about this season’s Baikal Ice Sailing Week.
March 2022 will mark the 11th occasion that the event is held at Lake Baikal, Russia with sailors participating from all over the World to compete at the Asia and Baikal Cups, the Russian Championship or to sail for pleasure. This year we are also looking forward to having guests from China.
Please read the What-to-know-2022 manual carefully.

The dates of next seasons’ Gold Cup World & European Championships were set in April at the National Secretaries’ Meeting and we are receiving more and more dates from the class’ member fleets daily.

Contents:
European Secretaries Meeting Thoughts by Warren Nethercote | There’s Always Moosehead by Bill Buchholz | The Unaverage Year by Jody Kjoller | Chasing Swedish Ice by Dideric van Riemsdijk | Minutes of the European Secretaries Meeting | Regatta Results

Our family of icesailing nations grew with a new member in Asia! This weekend at our annual National Secretaries’ Meeting we had some very special guests in attendance:On behalf of the Chinese DN Fleet, Mr. Qiguang Wang chairman of the Jinzhou Yachting and Sailing Association and Jinzhou Bay Sailing Club, Mr. Ming Wu director of the club and Ms. Di Zhu, Chinese-Canadian interpreter was also invited to aid throughout the process. As they told us, in the past three years, during the introduction, training and participation in- and hosting of various icesailing competitions, they stumbled across pictures and videos of DN iceboats on the Internet. The appearance, structure, speed and specifications …