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Hokuloa OCC 2nd Women Masters Unlimited
Newport Aquatic Center
Dana OCC 1st Women Senior Masters
Lanakila OCC
Conducting the chaos, Sept. 11
Boats came in and out to pick up paddlers, canoes
untied from their moorings and paddled out to meet
up with escort boats, official boats moved about,
taking care of business, the Coast Guard and Harbor
Patrol cruised around, watching and standing by to
help keep the commercial boat channel open.
Billy once again took the tiger by the tail and held
the canoes at bay until 10am on Sunday, then all hell
broke loose. Paddles, 366 of them, dug deep as a roar
from the men arose amongst the spray and churning
water.
Conditions were a lot easier for the men's race.
There was a jumble of swells that were headed in the
general direction of Newport Beach. Also headed in
that direction was a massive grain-hauling tanker that
approached from the South. The race course crosses
a major shipping lane, and after some tense minutes
of Billy warning escort boats to 'give way' and 'make
wise choices', the tanker suddenly made a u-turn and
headed in the opposite direction until the racers had
cleared the shipping lane.
Just out of Newport, a pod of whales made their
way north as the first canoes arrived. At the entrance
to the Newport Channel, seals looked for free meals
ignoring all of the boat traffic around them. No
changes were allowed after the canoes entered the
channel, so the last combination of six-paddlers had
to spend some extra time in the canoe as they made
their way back up to the Dunes.
The winners, Paddling Connection of Tahiti, took
the lead from the start and lead all the way to the
finish in 3:36:42. Close on their heels was Red Bull/
Na Koa Kona from Hawaii in 3:37:48. Another
Tahitian crew, Moua Tamaiti No Papara, took third
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PACiFiC PADDLER OCTOBER 2016
Uncle Bud Hohl and Safety Boat Captain Billy Whitford
Start of the Men's race
Race Director, Cheance Adair
coordinates with the timekeepers at the finish line
AVALON BAY, 10AM
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