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+===== An Accident Happened =====
 **Brandon Nelson <brandon@…>** \\
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 But in the big picture, there are plenty of poor starving kids in Africa, heck, some here in Whatcom County, so we all a very privileged to be able to race boats for recreation.
+**An Accident Happened… The Resolution\\
+Brandon Nelson <brandon@…>** \\
+/01/10 #8332
+Killer race today, All. I’m still struggling to figure out how Anne, Nicole and Ian broken the sound barrier without us mortals hearing a sonic boom, but they pulled it off somehow! Good Golly did they crush it. I’m not complaining: when the lead boats finish so far ahead of the rest of the field that the spectators forget, and think the next pack in are the actual winners and so they cheer like crazy… well that works for me. At any rate, a tiny bit of a race write up is on the blog at [[http://chargelife.com/2010/05/racing-in-our-living-room-2010-lake-whatcom-classic.html|http://chargelife.com/2010/05/racing-in-our-living-room-2010-lake-whatcom-classic.html]]
+Also, thanks to everyone who chimed in on the boat ding story from last weekend. I got a chance to talk to Jeff Knakal today at the race, and we talked about how to handle the damage. Over the past week, a few other paddlers had a chance to look at the boat, and everyone agreed that:
+) It was a bummer and it does devalue (or at least de-virgin-ize the boat), but…
+) It wasn’t worth trying to repair because the repair would be even more visible (and heavier) than the damage, and…
+) It’s the kind of thing that somehow, somewhere, someday will happen to almost every boat, but….
+) Knakal owed me SOMETHING!
+So today when Jeff and I talked, he offered to fix it. It turns out Jeff really knows what he’s doing with composites, or at least he’s been able to sell Boeing on that fact for some time now. So he is qualified to fix it if that were an option. But I said no deal to that.
+Instead, what Jeff and I agreed on is that he owes me a future, professional, Boeing-quality repair. Someday, whether it’s this boat or another, or someone else’s that I (accidentally) and more seriously damage, I’ve got a “free repair” card to redeem at Jeff’s Boat Shop.
+And I’m good with that. I know the letter of the law says he’s at fault and can be made to file insurance claims and blah blah blah. I just can’t swallow that and I couldn’t over the course of a week come to envision saying, “Knakal, pay me XXX in cash for future lost re-sale value.” A future repair feels like a boater’s solution, not an insurance adjuster’s, or a cop’s, or Judge Judy’s.
+All that being said, I’d think twice about parking next to him at the races! J
+Nice racing today, everybody. See you at Deep Cove in two weeks! (Ian, aren’t you due overseas that day?)
+Brandon
+**Re: An Accident Happened… The Resolution\\
+Bob Putnam** \\
+/02/10 #8336
+Every surf ski should have a few good "battle scars" on it!\\
+Bp

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