Carl Bernard Scrapbook Project
Message from the 2006-2007 4LIYC Commodore, Doug Kolner:
I would like to thank all those who came from far and wide for your generous help with our scrapbook project. We exceeded our goal and can now continue with the project on a sound footing.
Special thanks to Debbie and Harry Whitehorse for opening their home and gallery for the fund-raiser; Dick and Mary Lichtfeld for the fantastic food, sweatshirts, as well as displaying the Miss Madison; Peter Fauerbach for the beer (Emil would be proud); Tim Stanton for calendar and card production; and Jerry Simon for his many hours at the donation table.
Extra-special thanks to Debra Bernard Ericksen and Mary Bernard Ohrt for their attendance and their generous gift of a very personal collection of family memorabilia.
In addition we must thank Tim Murray for spearheading this project and his countless hours reproducing the scrapbook for preservation. Look for a continuous update of the web-accessible Bernard Collection as Deb Whitehorse builds a "Virtual Museum" of iceboating history.
Sincerely, Doug Kolner Commodore Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club October 2006
Harry Melges (Buddy's father)
wins the 1947 Class E
NIYA Championship.
1947 regatta news...
Spectacular shot of a
Lake Winnebago stern
steerer just before she
went over.
1949 article about
Andy Flom and Jim Lunder
and their Hearst win
in the Fritz.
Here's Rosie McDonald
on Lake Monona tapping
into a barrel Fauerbach.
Notice the Faurebach brewery
in the background.
The perils of spring
sailing...
Carl captioned this
slide "Repair job-
Jim Payton &
Dave Schmidt".
Carl captioned this
slide "Clancy".
Great shot of
Elmer Millenbach, inventor
of the Renegade .
Bill Perrigo
Stern steerer
models created by
Carl Bernard.
Stern-steerer
models including
one of the Princess.
1934 Stuart Races
with ice boat legend
John Buckstaff
The christening
of the Mary B.,
Madison's Queen
of the Lakes.
Charlie Johnson
gets ready to
send them off.
Building Mary
B's plank in
Frank
Tetzlaff's
basement.
Carl Bernard,
O.T. Havey,
Norm Braith,
and Charlie Johnson
O.T. Havey,
original owner
of the Mary B.
He commissioned
Frank Tetzlaff to
build the boat.
1930 Hearst with all
the important names
in ice boating.
1939 Hearst timing
sheet. The race was
timed by Lolly Boston.
Also a nice photo
of the Deuce.
The top photo was taken
for the Encyclopedia Britannica
in the 1930s. I'm not sure
of the boat, but I believe it
may be Carl's father,
Bill Bernard, pushing off.
The center photo dates
from 1934. The Princess and
Miss Madison (still sailing
area lakes with owner
Dick Lichtfeld) are in the
photo. The photo on the
bottom is unidentified
which is unusual because
thankfully, Carl was good
about captioning photos.
On June 5, 1963, Carl Bernard
was in the first group to be
inducted into Madison's
Sports Hall Fame. Click on
the photo-the man in the
background, who was the
evening's keynote speaker,
might look familiar.
Pewaukee, Wi. ice boating
"Miss Wiswell" is Jane Pegel,
Williams Bay's Skeeter Ice Boat Club
many time DN champion.
Photos from the first NIYA
Regatta sailed in Menominee, MI in 1913.
