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-I was waiting for Reivers to step forward and post the whole story about the Shaw Island race today, but since he is licking his wounds (and undoubtably watching the Olympics), I'll piece a bit of a story together. Kind of a mediocre/lame showing from the B'ham group. There was Joost the director, Brandon the time keeper/baby keeper, Reivers, Mike G., Roger Lamb, Heather, Rick Lingbloom and yours truly. Rick and I racced the Mako XT tandem while the rest of this group was on surfskis. Zimmerman and Nadija were also there but were racing a sea kayak that was slightly smaller than the Queen Mary. I think that there was a total of about 23 boats with 6 skis, 1 6-man outrigger, 2 pedal boats, 3 tandem kayaks and the rest were single and tandem rowers. Entry fee was waived and it was dry for most of the race. At the start, Joost ran out first and tried drafting a fast tandem rower while Rick and I chased after him. We were getting passed by a tandem rower that was slightly faster than us, so we jumped on their tail and gained some speed for about 4 miles. We stayed out in the channel with a current and a draft and were actually almost caught up to Joost. However, we were about 100 yards off his left when he made a sharp turn up the side of Shaw and we were suddenly over 100 yards behind him. We left our rowers to fend for themselves and took off fighting current and wind most of the rest of the way around the island. Meanwhile, Heather, Mike and Reivers were duking it out until Reivers hit a rock with his rudder and bent it bad enough to have to beach his boat and bend it straight enough to limp home. Joost was the first kayak in followed by Rick and I, and then John Day behind us. The OC-6 was next with Mike, Heather and Reivers in that order. Congrats to Heather for getting a sub 2-hour time. Roger was the final ski in and finished his paddle with a cooling-down swim. The water never did get big except for one rogue wave that caused Rick to wet his pants, but the XT and it's crew survived. Lots of current and it was difficult to predict where to find eddys and good current. Got home and found a Washburn Current Atlas on Amazon for $11.95. Gotta start looking at charts a lot more for these races. Rick and I got lost no less than 6 times and we were simply paddling around an island.
+I was waiting for Reivers to step forward and post the whole story about the Shaw Island race today, but since he is licking his wounds (and undoubtably watching the Olympics), I'll piece a bit of a story together. Kind of a mediocre/lame showing from the B'ham group. There was Joost the director, Brandon the time keeper/baby keeper, Reivers, Mike G., Roger Lamb, Heather, Rick Lingbloom and yours truly. Rick and I racced the Mako XT tandem while the rest of this group was on surfskis. Zimmerman and Nadija were also there but were racing a sea kayak that was slightly smaller than the Queen Mary. I think that there was a total of about 23 boats with 6 skis, 1 6-man outrigger, 2 pedal boats, 3 tandem kayaks and the rest were single and tandem rowers. Entry fee was waived and it was dry for most of the race.
+At the start, Joost ran out first and tried drafting a fast tandem rower while Rick and I chased after him. We were getting passed by a tandem rower that was slightly faster than us, so we jumped on their tail and gained some speed for about 4 miles. We stayed out in the channel with a current and a draft and were actually almost caught up to Joost. However, we were about 100 yards off his left when he made a sharp turn up the side of Shaw and we were suddenly over 100 yards behind him. We left our rowers to fend for themselves and took off fighting current and wind most of the rest of the way around the island. Meanwhile, Heather, Mike and Reivers were duking it out until Reivers hit a rock with his rudder and bent it bad enough to have to beach his boat and bend it straight enough to limp home. Joost was the first kayak in followed by Rick and I, and then John Day behind us. The OC-6 was next with Mike, Heather and Reivers in that order. Congrats to Heather for getting a sub 2-hour time. Roger was the final ski in and finished his paddle with a cooling-down swim.
+The water never did get big except for one rogue wave that caused Rick to wet his pants, but the XT and it's crew survived. Lots of current and it was difficult to predict where to find eddys and good current. Got home and found a Washburn Current Atlas on Amazon for $11.95. Gotta start looking at charts a lot more for these races. Rick and I got lost no less than 6 times and we were simply paddling around an island.
 Try to make it next year….\\

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