The MISSA Ice Breaker Regatta kicked off the Spring high school sailing season in the Midwest with eighty sailors and eighteen teams.  Hosted annually by Chicago Yacht Club's Belmont Station, the regatta is known for its frigid 35 degree Lake Michigan water temperatues and unpredictable weather.  This season, most of the lakes in the region are covered by ice.  This includes Lake Minnetonka, host of last season's Baker Team Race Championship, which is covered by ice ten inches thick at last measurement by a local ice fisherman.