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Report courtesy Seymour Dodds, RYC scribe at large
It was a pretty close seven race series. Seattle boatbuilder Chris Maas
eeked out a narrow one point victory over visiting Australian Hayden Virtue.
In third was Erich Chase of Novato only three points out of first.
The tail end of canoes can resemble old school pintail surboards
Or the reverse transom of a spendy carbon ultralight
These are not the kind of canoes you paddle along singing "Alouette." It's
more like Mr Rogers asking "Can you say Carbon Fiber?" The sliding seat is
just the beginning. Add in jibing dagger boards and a great big spaghetti
pile of lines, self tacking jibs, reverse sheer, cruiser sterns, extreme
catamaran-ish hulls and you start to get the picture.
The art of gybing an IC is a personal thing
Grace sometimes applys, sometimes not
Top breeze in the long distance race hit 20 knots. Otherwise it was mostly
in the low to mid teens for the buoy races hardly the demons worst stuff.
East Coast, West Coast, Canada, pretty much everyone was represented
Participants also came from as far away as Calgary, Canada and exotic Rhode
Island
A family the canoes togther, um, they're all smiles
The big surprise was Erich Chase in 3rd. He hadn't been in a canoe in 7
years. Erich sailed a brand new Chris Maas design which Chris delievered
only a couple days before the NA's. They epoxied it together during a couple
all nighters. It left the shop with a barely primed hull. Erich was the
early series leader. He even won the "speed trials" where he hit an GPS
measured 13.4 Not bad in a 17' canoe -- and it wasn't nuking either.
Experience and treachory can only lead to good things
Until the kid toss the ole man in the drink!
Another surprise was the "youth" movement 29er star David Liebenberg, Mikie
Radziejowski and Rhode Island's two Clark Brothers (of that famed Canoe
sailing family) all competed and lost to the old farts.
FULL RESULTS
It was a pretty close seven race series. Seattle boatbuilder Chris Maas
eeked out a narrow one point victory over visiting Australian Hayden Virtue.
In third was Erich Chase of Novato only three points out of first.
The tail end of canoes can resemble old school pintail surboards
Or the reverse transom of a spendy carbon ultralight
These are not the kind of canoes you paddle along singing "Alouette." It's
more like Mr Rogers asking "Can you say Carbon Fiber?" The sliding seat is
just the beginning. Add in jibing dagger boards and a great big spaghetti
pile of lines, self tacking jibs, reverse sheer, cruiser sterns, extreme
catamaran-ish hulls and you start to get the picture.
The art of gybing an IC is a personal thing
Grace sometimes applys, sometimes not
Top breeze in the long distance race hit 20 knots. Otherwise it was mostly
in the low to mid teens for the buoy races hardly the demons worst stuff.
East Coast, West Coast, Canada, pretty much everyone was represented
Participants also came from as far away as Calgary, Canada and exotic Rhode
Island
A family the canoes togther, um, they're all smiles
The big surprise was Erich Chase in 3rd. He hadn't been in a canoe in 7
years. Erich sailed a brand new Chris Maas design which Chris delievered
only a couple days before the NA's. They epoxied it together during a couple
all nighters. It left the shop with a barely primed hull. Erich was the
early series leader. He even won the "speed trials" where he hit an GPS
measured 13.4 Not bad in a 17' canoe -- and it wasn't nuking either.
Experience and treachory can only lead to good things
Until the kid toss the ole man in the drink!
Another surprise was the "youth" movement 29er star David Liebenberg, Mikie
Radziejowski and Rhode Island's two Clark Brothers (of that famed Canoe
sailing family) all competed and lost to the old farts.
FULL RESULTS
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