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THANKS:       Mike Acebo....Great new newsletter editor !

                            John Ziermann....Excellent ice reporting and the new club membership list !

LRIBYC Officers:

Scott Valentine  dnus4925@yahoo.com    (Commodore),  Peter Truesdell   (Vice Commodore),

John Ziermann (Treasurer),

Rosemary Barnitz (Secretary), Mike Acebo (Corresponding Secretary), Fred Greis (Rear Commodore)

GOT NEWS???  Let Mike know at macebo@mac.com  ......club newsletter

GOT ICE???  Contact John Z. at racekart8@yahoo.com  ...ice report server

2013 Newsletters

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LI Championship was run on Saturday January 25 2025 at Lake Ronkonkoma.
Ice scouts reported gray ice with slight texture across entire lake 4 1/2 to 6”. One marked bird hole frozen over with thin ice and the usual open bird hole over by the Bavarian Inn  both easily avoided. Ice should build a little more before Saturday with cold

Despite a challenging and inconsistent breeze and delayed start today we were able to get 3 races in for both the DNs and mixed Skeeters.  We also finally have been able to honor our dear friend and avid competitor Rich Cruset by designating the first DN  race of the day as the Cruset memorial race won by Scott Valentine. Results are as follows

DNs
Scott Valentine.      1. 1. 1.          3 pts
Lee Costelloe.          2 2 5(dns).  9 pts
Rich Clark.                4 3 2.          9 pts
Paul Tropea.            3 4 3.          10pts

Skeeters
George Neyssen.    1 1 1.              3 pts
Fred Greis.                2 2 3.            7 pts
Mike Acebo.              3 3 2.            8 pts
Jordan Glaser.          4 4 5(dns).  13pts

Congratulations to all of you- it was great to see everyone keen to go after such a long wait for local ice along with everyone else on the lake today. Special thanks to Warren Darress for helping out on the race course too

                                                                                  Club Membership STILL only $20.

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Looking for a Classic Long Island Iceboating Book pick up a copy of Warren Darress’s book. You can email Warren Darress Jr. and purchase a copy before they are all sold. It’s a classic.
warren.darress@yahoo.com

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