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| - | ==== An accident happened ==== | + | <<stories:nao_2010|Previous Story^stories:bellingham_stories|Story List ^ stories:sk_rescue_2010|Next Story>> |
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| + | ===== An Accident Happened ===== | ||
| **Brandon Nelson <brandon@…>** \\ | **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. | 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\\ | + | **An Accident Happened… The Resolution\\ |
| - | Brandon Nelson <brandon@...>** \\ | + | Brandon Nelson <brandon@…>** \\ |
| - | 05/01/10 #8332 | + | 05/01/10 #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 | + | 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: | 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: | ||
| - | 1) It was a bummer and it does devalue (or at least de-virgin-ize the boat), but... | + | 1) It was a bummer and it does devalue (or at least de-virgin-ize the boat), but… |
| - | 2) It wasn’t worth trying to repair because the repair would be even more visible (and heavier) than the damage, and... | + | 2) It wasn’t worth trying to repair because the repair would be even more visible (and heavier) than the damage, and… |
| - | 3) It’s the kind of thing that somehow, somewhere, someday will happen to almost every boat, but.... | + | 3) It’s the kind of thing that somehow, somewhere, someday will happen to almost every boat, but…. |
| 4) Knakal owed me SOMETHING! | 4) Knakal owed me SOMETHING! | ||
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| + | **Re: An Accident Happened… The Resolution\\ | ||
| + | Bob Putnam** \\ | ||
| + | 05/02/10 #8336 | ||
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| + | Every surf ski should have a few good "battle scars" on it!\\ | ||
| + | Bp | ||
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