BACK TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE LYC OPENING PAGE and CONTENTS BACK TO GARETH'S NOTES MAIN PAGE Hard water sailing in a DN in Sweden   From: "G.J. Rowland"holivans@enterprise.net Subject: ICE SAILING NEWS Date: Tues, 5 Dec 2000 08:56:56 Hello All STOP PRESS - TUESDAY One of the members of the British Ice yacht team, ice sailor Chris Williams is in Sweden. Chris travelled over 1,200 miles to find some ice. At present he is about 100 miles west of Ostersund on the E14 at a village called Ann. The village is next to a lake called Annsun. It's some 500 metres above sea level and first reports are that it has 7 inches of ice. Chris hopes do do some ice sailing today (Tuesday). On the journey to Ann Chris was held up twice by some of Santa's reindeer as they ambled across the road, totally ignoring the traffic. Let's hope Chris does not come across an elk. They are 3/4 of a ton of dumb animal that will stride out across a road whether there is traffic or not. Early morning and dusk are the most dangerous as they make their way to new pastures. Hope to bring you a further report Weds night UK time. Gareth K800   All that ice in front of you... and not an elk in sight!     [  b a c k   t o   t h e   t o p   o f   t h e   p a g e  ] BACK TO GARETH'S NOTES MAIN PAGE BACK TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE LYC OPENING PAGE and CONTENTS