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Because of severe winter conditions in Eastern europe ice is covered with snow, so Ice-sailing is imposible at the moment. Rekyva lake has about 15 cm of snow, Curonian lagoon has 0-15 cm snow, but more precipitation is previewed. Thus closest ice event – Lithuanian-Latvian championships 2010 which was previewed for 30th-31st January is delayed. Further information about championships will be published as soon as possible.

Although we have a lot of snow in Lithuania, good news is that we have extremely thick and good condition ice (up to 55 cm on Curonian lagoon).

This allows the ice to be specially cleaned for the World Ice-Blokart Championships with snow-plough machine. The final decision on the venue for Champs will be announced next week. So heads up!

Within hours of the release of the World Ice-Blokart championship entry form, Lithuanian blokart team has received its first applications for entry; at the moment number of registered entrants had climbed to 35+.

LBT has received registrations from Spain, France, Lithuania, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, UK and Estonia with Lithuania dominating the fleet.

Only four participants have entered One ton division, so ton‘ers need only one more pilot to form their division. We have the same situation in Lightweight division as only 3 Lightweights have registered at current time. Minimum 5 pilots are needed to form the weight division if not they will be transferred to the other nearest division.

At the moment ice conditions are perfect. Ice thickness at Rekyva lake is 22 cm with 5 cm snow, at the Curonian lagoon – 20 cm with no snow. That thick ice should stay sailable until start of march, depending on snow conditions.