2012

By Scott Brand Sault Ste. Marie Evening News   Mother Nature was unable to shut down the 2012 World Ice and Snow Sailing Association (WISSA) Championships in St. Ignace this week, but she sure made a lot of work for event organizers. “Our community stepped up to the plate big […]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasaskimbat/message/2030 This morning brought a trace of new snow and stronger wind than yesterday. Wings and sleds ran 3 course races successfully before breaking for lunch.The new snow was on the sticky side and the wind never really filled in and since these conditions favor lighter riders I was once […]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasaskimbat/message/2029 I didn’t post yesterday as planned – after the skipper’s meeting it took some time to get our gear to the lake and set up. Then we spent the early afternoon sailing on the cleared ice practicing for the short track slalom before heading out onto the main lake […]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasaskimbat/message/2028 My perhaps dangerously overladen Forester performed magnificently on the long drive here, 20 hours all told with the planned overnight stop in Cleveland. Morning found us back on the highway and we gobbled up the miles, did the RuShip and I, the way a hungry Pac-Man chomps down the […]

  Brainstorming Session Tuesday: How To Meet Hospitality Demands of Ice Sailing Championship By Mary Petrides With more than 100 athletes expected to compete on the ice of Moran Bay in the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association’s world championship in February — and national and international media reporters and […]

  This has actually happened! After 30 years of winter sailing and racing in variety of venues and conditions our group of enthusiasts and champions have finally decided to combine our knowledge and skills to design and build a universal and affordable device suitable to anyone. MUST is designed for […]

  The Snowkite European Championship 2012 will kick off on the 20th January, at Reschensee, in Germany. This is the first European contest in snowkiting ever held in the old continent and it will be sanctioned by the International Snowkiting Association. Snowkiting or snow kiteboarding is new variant of kiteboarding […]

On December 3-4 Russian National team in Ice and Snow Sailing had a training session on Senezh Lake, Solnechnogorsk in line with preparation to the European Championship. View Larger Map The European Championship will be in Finland, March 15-18, 2012. For the first time the National team had run an […]

Vintage and antique snowmobiles will be added to this year’s winter festival at St. Ignace, which will span about 10 days and include pond hockey and the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association (WISSA) world championship. The St.Ignace News

Press-release №1 The 7th international marathon “Zhigulyovskoe Sea 2012” will take place in Togliatty from 1st to 5th of February. This time our project is named “International Festival Marathon “Zhigulyovskoe Sea 2011” because the our previous events proved to be more than just sport events. We did our best to […]