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Buddy Melges – Fair Winds & Endless Black Ice
iceboat.org Buddy Melges – Fair Winds & Endless Black Ice Deb Whitehorse May 18 Gloria and Buddy Melges at the 2007 Northwest Regatta at Menominee, MI. Buddy won the Class A Skeeter title that regatta. Photo: Chris John Buddy Melges … Continue reading
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Loring Video
Here’s Jim Turner on his attempt at the top speed award last week. The footage gives a good sense of the space: the first beat up the back runway, the blast reach at the crossover, and the fast run down … Continue reading
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Loring Landsailing Vl RESULTS
Sailwave results for Loring Landsailng Regatta VI at May 9 – 14 ~ Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine 2023 sailwave.com Very competitive racing this time around. Check out the results above. Many thanks to Nina and Millie Fleming for … Continue reading
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Loring Vl Update
Here’s a link to an interesting, and maybe troubling, article on Loring’s potential future: https://thecounty.me/link/ai-company-to-bring-quantum-research-center-to-aroostook Or, is there a chance we could get the techies sailing? The big tent at Northern Maine Brewing was blown down this winter in a … Continue reading
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Loring Landsailing
One week to go. In addition to all the fun stuff below, there will be another Top Speed Competition. This time, instead of Jim Turner’s radar gun we will be using our personal GPS’s to record Top Speed. There will … Continue reading
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