Great festival! I had a chance to guest paddle for one of the teams & really enjoyed it. Thanks to the organizers and volunteers. Thanks also to Kai Ikaika for hosting the beer garden. Great beer selection, although there are so many great Oregon beers around, it's kind of a shame to bring in beer from Hawaii (speaking of Saturday's choices). Not complaining - they were great beers too. Looking at a lot of your paddlers, it is apparent why you might have brought in Kona beer.
So happy to see something other than fizzy yellow lager. Great food stall right outside of the entrance as well.
As far as results go, I don't see them on the festival website. There are currently partial results here:
http://www.dragonsports.org/regatta/2008/2008PDXRaceGrid_Sun.pdfHowever, I can tell you with certainty that Kai won the A finals in the mixed division. Navy Dragon Anchors were second in that race, and they came back to win the (no) Guts & Glory (although Kai declined to enter that 2000m+ long race at the end of the day, so who knows what would have happened had they decided to paddle). I was not paying close enough attention to remember which boats placed where in the final races, so won't make guesses. Anniemaniacs raced well.
Thanks also to Shibumi for the hospitality. Still laughing about the fire dancers, dunk tank and stripper pole.
