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Reivers Dustin
05/01/11 #10594

Everyone seemed very humble after the race. Except Kirk. I thought I had been transported into an alternate universe. Usually, well, maybe I'm exagerating, but he did say he was happy about his race. Everyone else came up with the usual stuff, like a seagull pooped on my paddle and it slowed me down, or my breakfast beer was not a bud lite - it was the oatmeal stout and the wind was in my eyes and I used the wrong rudder wax.

The bay was glass, very light air from the WSW. Good start, not too much swapped gel-coat. The lead pack clumped up on the right side of the start line. Not too fast of a start with the head-wind and some light rollers against us. It got quite lumpy closer to Poe's Point Buoy. Someone in an Epic Ski was in the water up ahead, couldn't have been one of the fast guys. Bussinger and a double rower stopped to assist, probably more boats also.

I had my small rudder and felt the wobblies, but seemed to be catching fast boats. I reeled in Brian and Dave (OC-2) and closed the gap on Warren B. Just before the island it flattened out and my awesome mind powers began to fade. it turned into a slug with me against the world. Brian and Dave got into the glass and following winds on the other side of the island and found another gear. Bussinger, Hedgedus, and kid from Canada and me started pounding on each other swaping leads around until the following seas messed up the drafting. I stayed farthest wide and thought I was king, but noticed Warren and others closer to the wall did better as we got to Poe's Point.

My awesome mind powers kinda turned to crap at about the Dry Dock. …When who should arrive to spectate but Duncan. He offered a rather dry comment about, “need about four boatlengths don't ya?” In the short span of about 40 heartbeats I answered, “I'll get 'em!” and kicked in the awesome mind powers again. Race back on. I did sprints when waves were favorable and got within a boatlength of Bussinger. He heard the pitter-patter of paddle-strokes and I could see veins in his neck standing out. I could not get the edge on him. Gasping at the finish I noticed Hedgedus, Heather and a host of others finishing right on our tail.

For me it was a truely fantastic race. Parking was a booger, but everything else was off the charts high. Great food, excellent race support, super weather, I liked that chop and breeze, I heard that there were a ton of aorta busting duels and tight finishes. It almost killed us all - that means it was the perfect day.

Let's do it again at Whatcom Classic. Right now, I'm gonna crack another beer.

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Larry Goolsby
05/01/11 #10596

Up in the front (and this is only hearsay because we weren't there) four tandems , Kirk and Don. K were battling it out. I couldn't see the lead from that far back (we were the fifth tandem) but later heard thant Lanboe and a junior were leading the pack. Tracy and the youth finished first overall with Reid Carter and the Canadian youth a close second. Deb and Morris were the third tandem, while Jeff and Katja were fourth. I think the singles were in this order: Kirk, Don, DJ, and Hilburn. later I discovered a single piece of eelgrass stuck to our rudder. This clearly showed that we were severly handicapped and probably would have won had we avoided that single blade of grass.
LG

Michael Gregory
05/02/11 #10599

Hey Reivers,
I think the guy in the water was Gabe N. His rudder yoke slipped, he spent 10 min in the water putting it right. Then he climbed back on and proceeded to finish the race. Way to do Gabe!!!

MG

Reivers Dustin
05/02/11 #10601

Thanks Mike. Now that I recall, he was fooling around at the back of the boat a long time. Also, that's why even though LB stopped, he didn't lose much time. Gabe must have waved him off.

Man what a bummer. Gabe was one of our great american hopes for a first.

Today I'm feeling like six big guys gave me a whuppin. But don't tell Bussinger - I don't want to be the first to blink.

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Reivers Dustin
05/02/11 #10602

Well hell. That wasn't supposed to go out to the whole world.

How about one of the better stories about this race:

Unknown to most of us, Tracy Landboe and a very promising young lad turned out to be a blazing fast double surfski team. Was that Tracy's son? Even more unknown, Ben Fast loaned his son to Reid Carter - also making a blazing fast double's team. You can see the rest of this story on the results page. These two boats were the number one and number two finishers. They were a whole 20 seconds apart at the end of almost an hour and twenty minutes of going like stink. You can bet there was a lot of heart put into that duel.

just. friggin. cool.

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Larry Goolsby
05/02/11 #10604

How did it go for the OC-6's first race? Looks like they were third overall. Nice job! LG

allipp01
05/02/11 #10605

A great time was had by all.

When we get a crew of experieiced paddlers that have had time to train together, everyone can see how fast these canoes can really be!

Jeff Hegedus <jhegedus@…>
05/02/11 #10606

Rudder yoke slipped? Let me guess… V10 round rudder shaft, where the pins were not considered 'necessary?' They are.

Preliminary DHC results for the curious.
John Rybczyk
05/01/11 #10597

Mistakes? Let me know. Final results will posted to the DHC web page soon.

Long Course

Place Time Name Class Place in Class

1 1:16:50 Landboe/Roux MXHPK2(+jr) 1
2 1:17:10 Fast/ HPK2(+jr) 2
3 1:17:11 Morris/Morris MXHPK2 2
4 1:17:35 Kiesling HPK 1
5 1:18:06 Christensen HPK 2
6 1:18:18 Rademacher/Raymond MXHPK2 3
7 1:18:40 Jacobsin HPK 3
8 1:18:54 Goolsby/Sullivan HPK2 2
9 1:19:09 Hilburn HPK 4
10 1:20:02 Gregory/Wells HPK2 3
11 1:20:06 Putnam/ MXHPK2 4
12 1:20:28 Borgness HKP 5
13 1:21:08 Lingbloom/Whitlock HKP2 4
14 1:21:39 Cross HPK 6
15 1:21:43 Fitzmaurice HPK 7
16 1:21:43.1 Wermus HPK 8
17 1:22:06 Martin HPK 9
18 1:22:24 Hansen HPK 10
19 1:22:42 Bumstead HPK 11
20 1:24:52 Boatman/Williams OC2 1
21 1:24:56 Remmler HPK 12
22 1:24:59 Knakal/Obrien 2X 1
23 1:25:23 Clement HPK 13
24 1:25:51 Hope/Hope HPK2 5
25 1:25:56 Bruce HPK 14
26 1:26:23 Lee/Scherrer OC2 2 (delayed to assist)
27 1:26:28 Bussinger HPK 15
28 1:26:33 Dustin HPK 16
29 1:26:44 Hegedus HPK 17
30 1:27:35 Lowe HPK 18
31 1:28:01 Nelson F-HPK 1
32 1:28:10 Wakeland HPK 19
33 1:28:34 Newton HPK 20
34 1:28:39 Lamb HPK 21
35 1:28:44 Grossman HPK 22
36 1:30:35 Clements (Brad) HPK 23
37 1:31:17 Kelly HPK 24
38 1:32:06 Page/Bilmer MXHPK2 5
39 1:32:07 Bawden HPK 25
40 1:33:09 Armstrong HPK 26
41 1:33:37 Burnett HPK 27
42 1:33:45 Dee HPK 28
43 1:34:07 Bell F-HPK 2
44 1:35:44 Schulz HPK 29
45 1:36:10 Whitacre/Avens MXOC2 1
46 1:36:25 Bounds HPK 30
47 1:36:49 Ecker F-HPK 3
48 1:37:10 Dutton/Dutton MXSK2 1
49 1:37:32 Biernacki FSK 1
50 1:38:07 Romo OC1 1
51 1:39:07 Foellmer HPK 31
52 1:39:18 Starbuck OC1 2
53 1:40:31 Jacobson F-HPK 4
54 1:43:16 Petereit F-HPK 5
55 1:43:44 Haycock F-HPK 6
56 1:47:00 Moseley OC1 3
57 1:48:01 Stevens 1X-RIII 1
58 1:50:06 Paige OC1 4
59 1:51:39 Wonham F-HPK 7
60 1:58:50 Beckwith F-IX-RIII 1
61 2:06:02 Spooner SK 1
62 2:09:42 Bagne/Boydstun F-HPK2 1
63 2:14:28 Natelson F-1X-RII 1
64 2:14:28 Weisse F-1X-RII 2

Short Course

1 34:47 Cantrell HPK 1
2 36:14 Swetsih FSK 1
3 37:36 Komoto et al. OC6 1
4 41:44 Howatt/TrowbridgeF-OC2 1
5 44:24 Whitehead SUP 1
6 45:23 Halstead HPK 2
7 46:58 Rogers /? SK2 1
8 47:02 Parker SK 1
9 47:30 Lipp SUP 2
10 47:31 Baharav SK 2
11 48:31 Andaluz HPK 3
12 51:48 Borgias F-SK 1
13 54:38 Campbell SUP 3
14 1:00:23 Haskin SUP 4
15 DNF Anderson F-SUP DNF