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[tiger]

Looks like the seal "Dog" appeared today again?  Anybody see it pop up its head in the semi?  Or was that a team throwing a race to get in a lower division, as Guido has indicated does happen.

 

[paddleBOT]

Saturday AM

A Final - Gemini
1. 2:04.330 FCRCC Mixed
2. 2:05.600 Pacific Reach
3. 2:13.340 ROLI Canada I
4. 2:15.880 Swordfish
5. 2:59.040 Team SUCCESS
6. 3:09.220 Team Ruckus

B Final - 6-16
1. 2:09.780 Specialty Subaru Legacy
2. 2:17.420 Fresh Off The Dragonboat
3. 2:17.520 False Creek Masters Women
4. 2:18.420 Specialty Subaru Outback
5. 2:19.530 Alpha Dragons Red
6. 2:22.730 Dragon Hearts Team Ultimate

C Final - Gemini
1. 2:23.330 Concord Pacific Flying Dragons
2. 2:23.450 Scotiabank Dragons
3. 2:23.570 Eye of the Dragon
4. 2:23.700 Team STORM
5. 2:24.110 VO2Max
6. 2:24.220 ROLI Canada II

D Final - 6-16
1. 2:24.360 PowerBar CC Dragons
2. 2:25.090 Alpha Dragons Blue
3. 2:29.270 Splash Test Dragons
4. 2:36.680 Elephant and Castle Booze Cruise
5. 2:52.370 Draggin' Butt
6. 3:02.520 C.C. Riders


Saturday PM

A Final - Gemini
1. 2:12.780 Drunk'n Dragons Blue
2. 2:13.520 Just Dragon Long
3. 2:13.620 Team Lifescan
4. 2:13.980 TCC Carrib Dragoneers
5. 2:16.650 Team United
6. 4:00.000 False Creek Grandragons

B Final - 6-16
1. 2:14.350 Nothin' Dragon Seniors
2. 2:14.950 Ready, JET, Go!
3. 2:15.390 Prospera Team X-Calibre
4. 2:18.420 Team Up Roar
5. 2:20.190 Golder Water Warriors
6. 2:22.900 Hydro Power Dragons

C Final - Gemini
1. 2:14.320 Phat Phish Racing
2. 2:17.490 Dragon's Edge
3. 2:17.660 Team Masala
4. 2:18.590 UTStarcom Celestial Dragon
5. 2:31.480 Concord Flying Dragons Too
6. 2:32.010 Gift of Life

D Final - 6-16
1. 2:19.120 Drunk'n Dragons - Green
2. 2:28.300 Nothin' Dragon Sr. Challengers
3. 2:28.740 JET-Ai
4. 2:30.440 Grandragons Too


Sunday AM

A Final - Gemini
1. 2:28.290 Eric Hamber Eternal Dragon
2. 2:29.500 Synergy Yellow Submarine
3. 2:35.250 TD Lightning
4. 2:36.910 Synergy Dregoons
5. 2:36.940 Dragon Hearts Team Magnum
6. 2:38.380 Synergy Ship Disturbers

B Final - 6-16
1. 2:19.990 Laoyam Eagles
2. 2:31.540 Synergy Pirates
3. 2:32.010 STM White Knights
4. 2:37.450 Strathcona Youth Dragons
5. 2:37.980 VanCity Thunder
6. 2:38.120 Synergy J-Speed

C Final - Gemini
1. 2:50.130 STM Red Knights
2. 2:54.840 Raging Rebels
3. 2:55.470 Mission VT
4. 3:00.980 Windermere Raging Warriors
5. 3:03.310 Kitsalano Water Demons
6. 3:03.520 Dragon Hearts Team Dragonfly

D Final - 6-16
1. 2:48.730 Synergy Soulja's
2. 2:50.500 VT Conquest
3. 2:53.470 RHS Flying Colts
4. 2:54.300 Super Stokin Dragonflies
5. 3:14.190 Surgin Sturgeons
6.      DNS britannia db


Sunday PM

A Final - Gemini
1. 2:32.440 Burnaby Tsunami
2. 2:33.510 Kryptic Storm
3. 2:33.710 Mercedes Benz Silver Arrows
4. 2:33.910 Army Dragon Forces
5. 2:41.390 MacDonald Realty MacDragons
6. 2:41.750 Rogers Team Vortex

B Final - 6-16
1. 2:26.030 CIBC Dragons
2. 2:32.540 Scaly Justice
3. 2:33.780 Richmond Centre Dragoneers
4. 2:34.680 GVRD 44 Cheeks
5. 2:40.390 PH&N Horny Goats
6. 2:42.390 Gung Haggis Fat Choy

C Final - Gemini
1. 2:36.980 CBC Wave Catchers
2. 2:47.130 OarDeal
3. 2:48.060 TEAM MOMENTUM
4. 2:49.130 CAC Banana Boat
5. 2:49.860 Canadian Construction Women
6. 2:51.030 Central Cruizers

D Final - 6-16
1. 2:44.660 Dragons Breath
2. 2:47.890 BLG Smokin Dragons
3. 2:49.230 iCAPSIZE iCAPTURE Crew
4. 2:49.630 Drunkn' Dragons - Yellow
5. 2:50.130 Powerful Wet Chickens
6. 2:56.740 Saints Preserve Us

[ConfusedAsian]

Just a question now that we have this results how do they decide who's in what division, and who they will be racing in later in alcan?

[kelfon]

Looks like Team Ruckus made it to the "A" finals.

[Lethal Weapon]

Interesting overall I notice the Gemini times were faster than the 6-16 times. I guess teams are figuring out how to paddle them.  There was some excellent heats today (and weather, my sunburnt face....) FCRCC mixed is the team to beat right now with PR and Subara (not yet showing their stuff ...(no dog today ...) and ROLI getting batter every race. Too bad about Ruckus and Success having that mishap (collision) as that would have made for a kick ass final. The Swordfish made it again to the Final!   I guess twice lucky..... Alcan is next..Let the games begin!

[Optimal]

Saturday AM

A Final
1. 2:04.330 FCRCC Mixed
2. 2:05.600 Pacific Reach
3. 2:13.340 ROLI Canada I
4. 2:15.880 Swordfish
5. 2:59.040 Team SUCCESS
6. 3:09.220 Team Ruckus

I heard there was a collision between Success and Ruckus, that explains their times. Why was there such a big time difference between 1st and 4th? 11 seconds?

[Steamrollers Moaner]

Yes they did... but not by much.  They beat out FODB by 0.10 of a second in the semi's to make it into the A final.

Nevertheless, a job well done!!  Congrats!

[kelfon]

Yeah the collision licked salty herrings.  Could have been worse, good thing no one was hurt.

[Angus]

In the morning's A final, right after the race started, a False Creek Ferry decided to cut across the race course near the 350 meter mark. When the onlookers at the finish line realized that the ferry was not going to stop for the race and that it was in a collision course, there was a lot of screaming from the shore, but the officials didn't say ANYTHING on the radio. How do I know this? I was standing right next to the finish line tent and could hear everything on the radio.
So what DID happen was that the officials boats were telling the boats to steer left to avoid the ferry - especially lanes 5 and 6. Lane five (success) followed those orders, but lane 6 (ruckus) did not. This resulted in a dangerous collision and what really shocked me was that they allowed the race to continue. Surely in the A final, having a False Creek Ferry interfere with the race would be reasonable grounds to call for a restart!
They should have either stationed a boat near the 350 meter mark to control ferry traffic or ordered all boats to hold and restart.

As for the laughable organization of the regatta... let me say this:
Partway though the second round of the morning session, racing was suspended while the finish line people were scrambling to find a tape for their video camera. This led to an attempt to find someone to blame for the lack of tapes, followed eventually by the rewinding of existing tapes.
But don't worry, they'll get 8 new tapes for the real race in 2 weeks.

Just before the B finals race in the morning, the finish line drama started up agian. This time, the finish line people didn't know how to operate the camera. After much tinkering and fiddling, they called out on the radio - "Is there anyone out there who knows how to operate the video camera?"
A woman does show up after a while, along with two black doggies and eventually, order is restored. But not before memorable lines like...
"All the buttons are worn off on this thing!"
"I know this camera works, I use it all the time!"

I believe that the delays caused by the organizer's own inexperience leads to a tighter schedule. This increases the pressure to get the races over with as quickly as possible, and if necessary, look the other way when fairness of the race comes into question.

Oh so much fun...

[~@ngel~]

At one point I was standing near the finish line tent and I heard the officials say that the computer crashed and they were waiting  for it to reboot.  Some BAD luck at False Creek yesterday.

[Fisher]

Interesting overall I notice the Gemini times were faster than the 6-16 times. I guess teams are figuring out how to paddle them.

I heard someone said the 6-16 boats have not had their bottoms cleaned for a long time. The 6-16 boats are longer and heavier so teams just don't like having to flip them over for cleaning.

[kelfon]

Chilling.

[kelfon]

Dunno how to delete these things...

[meowzers]

I heard someone said the 6-16 boats have not had their bottoms cleaned for a long time. The 6-16 boats are longer and heavier so teams just don't like having to flip them over for cleaning.

...don't think anyone wants to see what's been deposited under those boats
...just thinking about it makes me shudder

[Lethal Weapon]

heard someone said the 6-16 boats have not had their bottoms cleaned for a long time. The 6-16 boats are longer and heavier so teams just don't like having to flip them over for cleaning

I have seent he Subaru team cleaing the 6-16s a week before the regattas! Kudos to them for doing the dirty deed. Trust me in saying don't look at the bottom of those puppies before having lunch..And speaking of dirty old boats that should be broken up into paddles...Any one else have the mispleasure of paddling the Barney boat (purple 6-16). Time to retire that baby....