July 4th Fox Island Water Fun, Friends, Family

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SUP and other Balance Acts


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One with everything

Olympics Sunset

Cousin Water Play

July 4th Water and Toys

Sabot Sailing

Everyone is out, even Sunny

SUP by the house

claybabies at Fox Island's Sand Spit

The Gu Team

Nice balance, Amber

Sam and Amber by the small Island

Jessie and Sam paddling

More SUP training

Beautiful morning for a paddle

Foxy the seal pops his head

Hidden island arises

Amber and Sam SUP

Enjoying stormy warm waters

Spring Paddling

Amber's Shells - great balance

Nice Views for SUP Paddling

Coach Gordon paddling hard

Freshmen Men's Crew

Open Women Charging in 1500

Three Amigo's having fun at Green Lake

12 and 14 year olds at Uncle Manu's Regatta

Open Men in close win in 500m

Gordon and Scott after the 500m

500m showing how close the finish was

Open Women

Amber SUP

12 and under coed - Amber

1-2-3 Ki-Ka-Ha (Kikaha)

12 and under coed (with Amber as well)

Fun at the lake dodging all those shadows.

Finally got in some good sprint regatta racing after some spring break (from paddling). Kikaha is going strong with a big turnout, especially from the kids. The 2nd annual Uncle Manu regatta (pictures here) was held on a record breaking May day with temp in the 90's. Then the Greenlake Regatta was held on a nice day as well.

My men's category is enjoying a good competitive turnout, and races like the 500m, 1000m, and 1500m are almost photo finishes this season. We are still wining the masters 500 and 1000, but not by much. We won the 500m and came in 2nd (or 3rd) at the other. Then the 1500m is getting away from us. We took 2nd to Silverdale, and then 2nd again at Green Lake to Autumn Rose. That last real 1500m was hard fought with 5 crews in almost a photo finish (well Autumn Rose had a 1/2 boat win). Racing side-by-side with Rod's Silverdale crew was exciting as the turns are so critical. John cranked good ones and we edged them out for 2nd. Exciting.

We now have a 9mi race Saturday - the famous Seattle Grind. Then back to sprints - and then the super fun and very challenging Gorge Games race weekend.

New Year 12 Mile Fox Island Race

Video from my new Sanyo Xacti E1 Waterproof video camera.

I paddled the 12 mile New Year's race around Fox Island and had my best time ever, 1:59.22. For me doing that non-stop is cool, especially so early in the season. I had paddled an oc2 two days before and the weather, waves and current stopped us from going around - so we went down and back. Still 12 miles. Great paddling site! Compare last years results and map.






At the 1/2 way mark and the eastern end of the island.

Later, Amber, Sunny and Laura enjoyed some SUP (Stand Up Paddling) around Tanglewood Island.

Fox Island New Year 12 Mile Race

Annual 12 mile paddle around Fox Island was completed in relatively nice conditions. We ended up going against current most of the way, including an initial headwind. Good paddle. Thanks to Shane Baker for running the event again.


The following shows the GPS data and the route. I averaged 5.5mph against that current. My heartrate monitor seemed to loose connectivity thus the red shows dropouts all the time. First time using that device. Great tool!

Results:
1 Don Kiesling                V-10L surfski  1:43:36
2 Geoff Briggs/Dave Williams  OC-2           1:44:15
3 Jim Zimmerman/Shane Baker   double kayak   1:50:11
4 Steve Bennett/Bela Kovacs   double kayak   1:57:12
5 Scott Moody                 OC-1           2:10:00
6 Martin Oman                 fast sea kayak 2:22:00
7 Debbie Natelson             Rec 3 shell    2:25:59
8 Glen Rogers                 surfski        2:31:45
9 Zeke Hoskin                 Rec 3 shell    2:48:20