User Tools
Sidebar
races:bellingham_area_self_timed_races
This is an old revision of the document!
Table of Contents
Bellingham Area Time Trials
.
.
Vancouver Island Circumnavigation - by sea kayak - but not a race
“Somewhere in there I noticed that the altitude of my attitude was above required oxygen levels” - RD
Dos Equis Challenge (Lummi Island Circumnavigation)
- Current (?) Records
- SS1
- David Jacobson 2:50 2008
- David Scherrer 2:54 2008
- SS2
- Larry Goolsby & Shaun Sullivan 2:35:05 2008
- Larry Goolsby & David Jacobson 2:36:56 2011
- Rick Lingbloom & Marc Whitlock (Team 205) 2:43:50 2008
Kayak Abuse (Seattle to Bellingham)
The Kayak Abuse was started by the Broze Bros. (Mariner Kayak fame) to get in shape for Ski-to-Sea. Shilshole Marina or Golden Gardens Park in Seattle to Larabee Park, 90 miles
- FSK - Larry Bussinger 16 hrs 3 min 1990 (Mariner XL sea kayak)
Lake Whatcom Classic
- Annual spring race in Bellingham. The courses (short and long) are pretty simple if you want to time trial it. Both races start and end even with the corner of the park hedge and rock wall end on land where the race timers sit?? This race tradtionally allows drafting outside of boat class which may contribute to some extra fast surfski times? In 2021 a course bend was added to the finish.
- Long course - around Reveille Island and back
- 2x Flatwater Shell - Evan Jacobs and Tyler Peterson 1:24:17.2 2013
- SS1 Greg Barton 1:30:10.2 2016
- Short course - around a buoy at Strawberry Pt. and back - let's say you have to go within 50 yds of land at the Point.
- 1x Flatwater Shell David Deschenes 34:41 2017
- SS1 David Jacobson 37:39.8 2013
Lake Whatcom Wednesday Night Race Course
- This course has tended to evolve over the years with the coming and going of race landmarks like the “bucket”. So up to now the times mentioned here have to all have asterisks due to the changing nature of the course. And to be honest…, there are probably other questionable practices - like the moving start that render the race unfit for exact record keeping. Unfortunately we do not have any times (at least not so far) for some of the earlier races from Joost Zeegers or Greg Barton. Wednesday night race stories
- K1 - Aaron Small self report - sub 23 (Jonas Ecker in close second place, with Kevin Olney and Ian Sawyer in a double ski close third) June 2022
- K2 - Jonas Ecker & Ana Swetish ~ 23:15? (very close to Austin K. at finish) - 2019
- Solo Rowing Shell Dave Duchenes 22:54 self report 2019
- SS2
- Don Kiesling & Gabe Newton 23:35 - 2010
- Kevin Olney & Paul Clement 23:56 - 2017
- Times based on the Segment Defined in Strava
- SS1
- Austin Kieffer 23:15 - 2019
- Woman's ? (there have been faster times than what Strava shows)
- K4 - Ana Swetish, Elena Wolgamot, Abby Scoggins, Jonas Ecker 23:26 - 2017
- Solo Rowing Shell - Dave Deschenes 23:15 2019
San Juans Circumnavigation
- A lot of variables involved in this circuit. No one has specified any kind of official break allotment that doesn't have to be counted in the overall time. Seems like one shouldn't have to count time spent talking to homeland security. In any event we will keep some records of notable trips here if we receive reports.
- SS1
- 15 hrs 30 minutes 2009 83 miles Kirk Christensen, Morris Arthur, Brad Clement trip report
- just over 16 hrs 2007 just over 87 miles Kirk Christensen, Morris Arthur
Ski2Sea Full Kayak Course
Approximate course - run from bike leg handoff edge of parking lot by Zuanich community bld., pick up ski on grass, carry down to Zuanich dock and launch, paddle around outfall buoy, back to and around buoy near Glass Beach, paddle inside (on beach side) the red buoy near Boulevard Park, paddle longest leg south to bouy placed for race straight WNW out from Marine Park (guestimate this is about 200 yds offshore), paddle straight into MP where you land and run up to flat where bell normally would be rung (let's say step into parking lot for end of solo time trial)
- From 2009 on
- Sean Rice 35:57 2013
- Kenny Rice 38:28 2014
- Zsolt Szadovszki 38:33 2013
- Austin Kieffer 38:44 2017
- Greg Barton 38:57 2014, Eric Moll 38:57 2009
Vancouver Island Circumnavigation
-
- Calvin Croll's Winter Circumnavigation (look for past expeditions on website) 2018
- Jerome Truran attempt blog 2013
- Records
- single rower
- 15 days, 11 hours and 47 minutes 2011Colin Angus
- solo sea kayak
- 12 days 23 hours and 45 minutes 2014 Russell Henry
- 16 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes 2010 Joe O'Blenis
- 17 days, 4 hours and 49 minutes 2008 Sean Morley
- 23 days 10 hours 2007 Joe O’Blenis
- double sea kayak
- 19 and a half days 2007 Kieron Tastagh and Jeff Norville
- swimming
- 94 days 2005 Rob Dyke
Whiskey Rock to Drydock
- Current (?) Records (We probably need new course specs 2020 given disappearance of Drydock?)
- SS1 - Morris Arthur 33:08
- 2023 Wilson Reavley & Ana Swetish did run starting well upwind from Whiskey Rock to Post Point Buoy in less than 29 minutes
- OC1 - Jesse Allen 36:00
- SUP - Beau Whitehead 52:00
Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
