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June 02, 2009 Results
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Our "Spring in Summer" sale will be wrapping up on Sunday. It's a great time to take advantage of a 10% discount on a surf ski or composite touring kayak, and 15% off a plastic kayak.
Father's Day is approaching and we have lots of new summer clothing for men. Nice shorts and summer dress shirts by Reef, Prana, and more.
There was an incident where a commercial motor boat was going to plow right through the race in progress. It blasted its horn and didn't alter its speed or course. It was very dangerous. You may want to give the charter company a call and let them know what you think. I did, and they were pretty rude. Magic Charters Cell: 604-250-8008 I also called the Harbour Master to report the incident. 604.665.908 You may want to call them if you have a concern.
Age and Experience over comes Youth and Enthusiasm
So let me set the stage: Last Thursday at the Big Chop I was racing against Chris D. I was pulling away from Chris, but seeing the only person in front of me was Eric Moll and I wasn't going to catch him. I could either paddle the 8 km by myself or I could hang back and torment Chris D and the tandem team of Marshall H and Gary C. Being weak in spirit I opted for the role of tormentor. My strategy would be to hang with those guys and then pull away with Chris in tow, knowing that he couldn't resist trying to hang on. I would proceed to repeat this scenario several times until the final sprint. I figured this would do two things, 1.) Make me feel good about myself. 2.) Help Chris with his work out. I may have forgotten to mention that Chris had already completed a 15 km training paddle prior to the start of the Big Chop. Given that it made my plan particularly evil and cruel. It was fun though!
So last night Young Chris D. was out for some revenge. Being fresh he was going to kick some BP butt. It started off that way. Chris is a good starter and has an awesome sprint. I "hung back"at a distance where I could reel him in at anytime.(this makes it seem like I had a strategy, but in reality I was "hanging-on") About the half way mark it seemed like Chris D. was going to keep his lead, but by some miracle the Hand of God came down and swept Chris off is surf ski. Really it was the wake from the offending booze cruise boat "Magic Charm". Chris was quick to remount his ski but in his haste neglected to grab his paddle. Rule #1 "Never let go of your paddle" I felt really bad for Chris' misfortune, not bad enough to slow down however. This left youngster Ken Stannick up ahead. Ken had been reading up on Hank Macgregor's Molokai domination and how Hank had crushed the pack of 30 of the top surf ski paddlers in the world with a 20 minute pull at 15.5 km/hr. Ken's goal for tonight was to go out for as hard as he could for as long as he could. He did just that, leading the race for the first half. As we crossed from Boulder to Grey Rocks Ken was starting to blow-up and Jeff Raymond took the lead. I was fortunate to have Mike & Cam Fitz to paddle beside, and the dynamic duo was making a great effort to reel Ken in. By the time we got to the entrance of the Cove Ken was riding our wash and Ty Gee had bridged up to us. As we were approaching the finish Fitz's and I were neck and neck. Old Mike Fitz was uttering "Steady, Steady" to his young faithful paddling partner Cam. I decided to make a dash and gain a brief lead but wise Mike stayed Steady Steady and plucked my lead by the finish.
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Last Name First Name Boat# Boat Type DK Partner Time
1 Raymond Jeff 179 HPK 24.46
2 Fitzmaurice Mike 277 HPDK Cam Fitzmaurice 24.52
3 Putnam Bob HPK 24.56
4 Gee Ty 1166 HPK 25.05
5 Stanick Ken 1248 HPK 25.15
6 George John 333 HPK 25.22
7 Lewis Terry 200 HPK 25.27
8 Dobrovolny Chris 71 HPK 25.34
9 Remmler Darryl 69 HPK 25.38
10 Kelly Matt 96 HPK 25.50
11 Hope Rod 133 HPK 26.01
12 Mickey 1223 HPK 26.10
13 Rademacher Katja 178 HPK 26.26
14 Hansen Paul 101 HPK 26.30
15 House Marshall 1247 HPDK Curtis Brock 26.37
16 Chang Rene 94 HPK 26.46
17 Sy Jonathan 119 HPK 26.48
18 Gibson Sean 121 HPK 26.48
19 Bruce Warren 102 HPK 26.51
20 Fast Ben 95 HPK 27.00
21 Daubeny Carolyn 8 HPK 27.17
22 Groll Bernd 1222 HPK 27.23
23 Boates Jodi 15 HPK 27.25
24 Pearse Darrell 89 HPK 27.36
25 Russ David 52 HPK 27.51
26 Page Brian 50 DBLK Trista Bilmer 27.54
27 Fejer Agnes 1067 DK Csaba Laszlo 27.59
28 Whorrall Mark 1156 HPK 28.02
29 Wanless Scott 47 DK 28.40
30 Putnam Lucas 136 HPK 29.49
31 Hope Greg 247 FSK 30.20
32 Hulscher Sean 1232 SK 30.28
33 Dunn Gregan 24 HPK 30.29
34 Little Colleen 1205 HPK 30.32
35 Siemens Craig 23 FSK 30.50
36 Reynolds John 198 HPK 31.04
37 Stannick Jennifer 1233 dk 31.20
38 Burgess Steve 1197 SK 31.36
39 Cassulis Gary 1192 DK Andrea Cassulis 31.39
40 Utley Kalum 1219 31.51
41 Plausic Zac 138 HPK 32.08
42 Broburg Angus 97 SK 32.26
43 Bisalputra Dan 1235 SK 33.17
44 Hubbard Carolyn 1047 HPK 33.40
45 Lambie Stephen 1043 HPK 33.43
46 Robertson Sharon 1095 33.47
47 Foellmer Kurt 0 DK Diane Goulet 34.12
48 Maurer Catherine 1230 HPK 35.34
49 Panozzo Sonja 1231 35.35
50 Broburg Eric 134 SK 35.44
51 David Sarah 1196 DK Marta Carlucci 35.56
52 Westman Kelly 1220 Robyn Baseraba 36.33
53 Smith Paul 1228 36.40
54 Coulter Gary 67 SK 36.44
55 Gray Colin 1206 37.04
56 Dixon Nancy 1236 DK Bruce Gurney 37.08
57 Mott Merlin 1229 37.34
58 Borchert Paul 1214 DK Timmia St-Pierre 37.36
59 King Andrew 1112 SK 38.20
60 Miller Avrum 132 38.22
61 Ellis Colin 1227 DK Mala Rupnarain 38.26
62 Ronaghan Clay 1217 DK Ivan Rybkin 38.38
63 Boxall Ken 808 SK 39.14
64 Poirier Claudette 39 FSK 39.48
65 Neil-Dwyer Jason 1234 40.46
66 Nicholls Glenn 1062 sk 40.55
67 Doxtador Sandee 1226 SK 41.34
68 Shepard Stu 12 SK 41.49
69 Nevgodovskyy George 1151 DK Yegor Konechny 42.47
70 Koch Michael 1210 SK 46.01
71 Dubman Rita 1131 SK 46.06
72 Rollings Dale 1221 Pboard 49.53
73 Popa Teddora 1057 57.11
74 Tunstead Collette 1064 59.00
75 St-Pierre Cedric 1195 SK DNF
76 Lillquist Hakan 135 FSK
77 Taylor Mike 344 HPK
78 Littlejohn Dale 1044
79 Bakker Jana 1209 DK Emily Bakker
80 Ewansow Lauren 1215
81 Gingras Sophie 1224 DK Caroline Pesant