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-==== Tour de Indian Arm and the Think Challenge ====
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 **Larry Goolsby** \\
 /16/10 #8411
-Reivers…..Since you were unable to attend today's race, I thought it would be polite if someone posted the days events and results. John Rybcyzk rode up with Shaun, Jim Buchanan and myself and along the way he explained how we could help our team score extra points by allowing Morris and Debbie Arthur to beat us in the tandem division and enabling the first of two US females to finish. Plus, this would also mean that the Arthur's tandem would score as the first US tandem to finish and we could dance back to the border as victors once again. It seems that there was a loophole in the rules that does not say that a female has to be in a single surfski, all it says is that she needs to be in a qualifying surfski. So if the Arthur's boat should come in second instead of first amoung the US tandems, then she couldn't even be counted as part of the team. So Shaun and I decided that our job was to get Debbie across the line first. That was a great idea until Don. K arrived with his tandem and a very fast partner named Gabe and then all bets were off; it was now every man (and woman) for themselves.
+Reivers…..Since you were unable to attend today's race, I thought it would be polite if someone posted the days events and results. John Rybcyzk rode up with Shaun, Jim Buchanan and myself and along the way he explained how we could help our team score extra points by allowing Morris and Debbie Arthur to beat us in the tandem division and enabling the first of two US females to finish. Plus, this would also mean that the Arthur's tandem would score as the first US tandem to finish and we could dance back to the border as victors once again. It seems that there was a loophole in the rules that does not say that a female has to be in a single surfski, all it says is that she needs to be in a qualifying surfski. So if the Arthur's boat should come in second instead of first among the US tandems, then she couldn't even be counted as part of the team. So Shaun and I decided that our job was to get Debbie across the line first. That was a great idea until Don. K arrived with his tandem and a very fast partner named Gabe and then all bets were off; it was now every man (and woman) for themselves.
 So the race was well attended and the weather was great. Just before the start, the wind kicked up and it looked like we might get a taste of that downwind run that Bob P, had teased us with by inscribing it on the online course maps. The race started exactly on time and the usual mayhem began as we are all hugging the first curve on our way to the first turn. Brandon, Ian, DJ and the DK tandem were in the lead with Gareth and Bob P./Reid Carter tandem behind, followed by the Arthurs, our tandem and Kirk. Before the first turn at the bridge, we got spread out with Ian staying with DK and Brandon falling back to Putnam's tandem with DJ and Gareth somewhere in there. The Aurthur's hung onto Putnam's boat long enough to gap us by quite a margin and we found that Ben and John had gained on us in their S2-X. We weren't too worried about the S2-X because we knew that it couldn't handle mixed conditions and we would catch them on the last crossing back to Deep Cove. We were so wrong.
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 So now we had 3 tandems out in front of us and 3 singles and we were not used to being this far back. To top that off, we came around the second turn and a guy on the shore shoves his Zodiac out in the water right in front of our boat and we had to grab onto his pontoons to keep from going in. I firmly believe that this was failed plot by Putnam to stop the first tandem through that narrow gap, but that this guy just couldn't count and got us instead.
-So now we were too far back to even consider a last heroic effort so our new plan was to stay ahead of Daryl Remmler who was doing pretty damn good in his Uno with a hideaway drain system. The course had beem pretty bumpy most of the way with some wind waves and plenty of boat wakes but that final crossing put most of the chop on our beam and we just focused on finishing. However, a string of sailboats headed for their berths added a final challenge to our arrival and I was tempted to stop and ask their captains just how much Bob forked out for their assistance in scattering some surfskis. All in all, it was a great race with the DK tandem getting first followed by Ian, Brandon, Putnam/Carter, Gareth, and somewhere between us and Gareth was DJ, the Arthurs, and the Ben/John S2-X. In the short course, John Rybczyk and Jim Buchanan took first and second respectively showing Canada that even our newbies have sharp teeth. I saw some great efforts today and the three that stood out were, Daryl Remmler, John George and Ben Fast, and oh yeah, that Putnam guy getting the locals to run interference.
+So now we were too far back to even consider a last heroic effort so our new plan was to stay ahead of Daryl Remmler who was doing pretty damn good in his Uno with a hideaway drain system. The course had been pretty bumpy most of the way with some wind waves and plenty of boat wakes but that final crossing put most of the chop on our beam and we just focused on finishing. However, a string of sailboats headed for their berths added a final challenge to our arrival and I was tempted to stop and ask their captains just how much Bob forked out for their assistance in scattering some surfskis. All in all, it was a great race with the DK tandem getting first followed by Ian, Brandon, Putnam/Carter, Gareth, and somewhere between us and Gareth was DJ, the Arthurs, and the Ben/John S2-X. In the short course, John Rybczyk and Jim Buchanan took first and second respectively showing Canada that even our newbies have sharp teeth. I saw some great efforts today and the three that stood out were, Daryl Remmler, John George and Ben Fast, and oh yeah, that Putnam guy getting the locals to run interference.
 So Canada out scored the US today mainly because we did not have two qualifying women but the difference wasn't enough to offset the pounding we gave them a couple of weeks ago when we rigged our course with rocks and eel grass. I do have to admit that they did out do us in the food department and I'll need to see if we can remedy that during the 2011 Think Challenge.
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+==== Double Take ====
 **Re: Tour de Indian Arm and the Think Challenge\\
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 NICE racing, Canucks. I felt surrounded by you guys the whole time, and you never let up dangit. Warren, nice and strong; Shane, got knocked off and still caught up(!); Nathan, always on my shoulder, and too fast at the end; Ken, tried, but just couldn't catch ya'; Jeff and Daryl, nice inside lines, sheet; and the rest, you earned it. THANKS for a fun race! Hey Bob, but, um, can we have REAL beer next time?
+==== Reivers' Declaration of Dual Citizenship ====
 **Re: Tour de Indian Arm and the Think Challenge\\
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 /17/10 #8417
-Maybe this is sacrelage, but I'm getting tired of the two party system. I'm thinking of running as an independant next year. Or maybe some of us could start our own country. What was that country in the movie, "The Mouse that Roared"? I got it, The Grand Dutchy of Fenwick.
+Maybe this is sacrilege, but I'm getting tired of the two party system. I'm thinking of running as an independent next year. Or maybe some of us could start our own country. What was that country in the movie, "[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/|The Mouse that Roared]]"? I got it, The [[:humor:grand_fenwick|Grand Dutchy of Fenwick]].
 That's it. I'll be from the //**Grand Ducky of Fenwick**//  .

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