Big Fun, Big Money & Good Times, Good People At Paddle Race #4
We raised over $7000 today for a great cause, had a great time, and spent the day with good friends. Thanks to all those who paddled with a special nod of thanks to the weather gods who smiled upon us in a big way. (pictured who is leading this pack?)
The cause was the fight against cancer with all the proceeds on the day’s race, $7170 dollars worth to be specific, being donated to UCSF to use in the fight against cancer. The day started off with an inspirational update from the shop’s owner, Cort Larned, on the return of his cancer and his fight to beat it back. Cort was joined by his Oncologist Babis Andreadis who shared a quick lay-of-the-land on the new cancer treatments, including the promise of some of the new immuno-therapy treatments. Babis thanked the assembled fleet, and praise the grass root efforts like this that are helping making these new treatments possible. (pictured below the Melville/Marshall dynamic duo on the Starboard Tandem inflatable.)d
With bright blue skies and windless conditions, we could not have asked for a better day. We had a plethora of Stand Up Paddleboards, Outrigger Canoes, Surfski’s, Kayaks, and Prone Paddleboards queued up for action. We love the diversity of our fleet and while the highlights on the day were many, we have to single out Kathleen Shamp and Amanda Kahn-Kirby who completed the race with their dogs on board. Now that’s our style!
With paddlers coming from Santa Cruz to Lake Tahoe we were stoked to see so many people pitching in to help. With that said nobody pitched in bigger than Jimmy Lewis Stand Up Paddleboards. Jimmy donated the board of winners choice to our live auction. One Carbon Sidewinder ready for action – congratulations and thank you Alex! (Pictured below the 14ft SUP Long Course Start)
Starboard and SIC Maui both stepped up big time with the donation of a 2017 Drive and a 2017 Airglide 12’6 respectively. O’Neill wetsuits got in on the action with a wetsuit, while Maui Jim and Suncloud both donated sunglasses to the winners of our raffle. A thanks to John Hadley for the Olive Oil made right here in the Bay Area that rounded out a supper successful raffle.
We could not have done the event without the help of our normal support team. With a cornucopia of fresh fruit from the Fruit Guys, bottomless boxes of Kinds new (and delicious) breakfast bars, and a never-ending supply of Hint Water it was one well ‘nutritioned’ crew. After a long hard paddle nothing is quite so tasty as the brew from the Petaluma Based 101 North Brewing. Ok so one thing is just as tasty and that’s Mamie’s Pies chased down with Three Twins Ice Cream. We implore you to support the businesses that support our sport. So yes, drinking beer and eating pie is all we ask – you in? (Pictured below our resident otter even showed up to say thanks!)
We have to also mention the special appearance of Mike Wang. Mike was not racing but paddled all the way from Angel Island to the shop on his inflatable. Mike is circumnavigating San Francisco Bay by paddleboard and is raising money as he goes. Mike is padding to support the fight against Leukemia and Lymphoma. You can support is efforts by clicking here.
Thanks as well to our volunteers. With Jen Fuller on the starting line and Mimi Towle and Leigh Claxton running front on the catering we were moving like a well-oiled machine. Thanks guys.
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Complete Results Below
Offsets - Long Course Surfski Accurate as is. Long Course OC1 -1 minute, SUP 14 -2 minutes, SUP 12'6 - 3 minutes. Short course boats -9 minutes, Paddleboards -10 minutes.
Event Name Name(s) Craft Age Group GenderTime Rank Div Rank
Long Course Amy Byers, Elaine Baden Surfski Double 18-55 female 00:47:18.05 1 1
Long Course Frank Peronetto Surfski Single 18-55 male 00:47:40.35 2 1
Long Course Matt Hinckley Surfski Single 18-55 male 00:51:34.03 3 2
Long Course Jay Wild OC-1 18-55 male 00:52:17.71 4 1
Long Course Doug Kidder OC-1 Sr. Masters 55+male 00:52:41.62 5 1
Long Course Jasper Caddell Surfski Single U18 male 00:53:37.28 6 1
Long Course Cath Caddell Surfski Single 18-55 female 00:53:42.42 7 1
Long Course Anik Wild, Juliet Starrett OC-2 18-55 female 00:53:52.96 8 1
Long Course George Marshall OC-1 18-55 male 00:54:12.08 9 2
Long Course Fred Andersen, Hilary AndersenOC-2 Sr. Masters 55+mixed 00:54:20.99 10 1
Long Course John Kaplanis OC-1 Sr. Masters 55+male 00:54:30.91 11 2
Long Course Mike Crimmins, Mikey Crimmins OC-2 Sr. Masters 55+male 00:54:57.83 12 1
Long Course Shannon Hartnett OC-1 18-55 female 00:55:21.21 13 1
Long Course Rune Hoyer Nielsen, Annakari Hoyer-nielsen OC-2 18-55 mixed 00:55:33.66 14 1
Long Course Kylie Rae Marshall, Kira Jade Marshall OC-2 U18 female 00:57:06.95 15 1
Long Course Susan Starbird Surfski Single Sr. Masters 55+female 00:57:57.93 16 1
Long Course Misha Riszkiewicz Surfski Single Sr. Masters 55+male 00:59:19.39 17 1
Long Course Geoffrey Sears Surfski Single Sr. Masters 55+male 01:00:57.52 18 2
Long Course Robin Gandolfi OC-1 18-55 female 01:02:25.66 19 2
Long Course Daniel Alvarez SUP 14'18-55 male 01:03:35.78 20 1
Long Course Barry Wicks SUP 14'18-55 male 01:04:11.27 21 2
Long Course Cary Fergus OC-1 Sr. Masters 55+male 01:05:36.97 22 3
Long Course Marie Low OC-1 18-55 female 01:05:47.55 23 3
Long Course Kalia Alexiou SUP 12'6" U18 female 01:06:37.35 24 1
Long Course Dave Hook SUP 14'Sr. Masters 55+male 01:06:47.24 25 1
Long Course Amy Marshall, Michael MelvilleSea Kayak Double 18-55 mixed 01:06:55.43 26 1
Long Course Zach Jirkovsky Prone 14' 18-55 male 01:07:32.72 27 1
Long Course Carlo Maravilla SUP 12'6" 18-55 male 01:09:10.41 28 1
Long Course Rob Sinclaire SUP 14'18-55 male 01:09:50.26 29 3
Long Course Leo Montero SUP 14'18-55 male 01:10:04.34 30 4
Long Course Cary Riter SUP 14'Sr. Masters 55+male 01:10:45.95 31 2
Long Course Sean Mosbey SUP 14'18-55 male 01:12:20.13 32 5
Long Course Darren Howe SUP 14'18-55 male 01:13:45.19 33 6
Long Course Alex Groswird SUP 14'Sr. Masters 55+male 01:15:32.67 34 3
Long Course Madeleine KingSUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+female 01:16:07.38 35 1
Long Course Tyler Brooks SUP 12'6" U18 male 01:18:09.48 36 1
Long Course Amy Mosbey SUP 12'6" 18-55 female 01:26:46.97 37 1
Long Course Frank Perrott SUP Under 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+male 01:27:25.41 38 1
Long Course Claudia Breuer SUP 12'6" 18-55 female 01:28:53.33 39 2
Long Course Christian Gilby SUP 12'6" 18-55 male 01:30:21.30 40 2
Short Course Dylan Anacleto-black Surfski Single U18 male 00:30:04.28 1 1
Short Course Doug Bryant Surfski Single 18-54 male 00:34:28.69 2 1
Short Course Patrick Alteri SUP 14'18-54 male 00:36:56.89 3 1
Short Course Robert Demarco SUP 14'18-54 male 00:36:58.99 4 2
Short Course Ariel Bryant, Abigail Armstrong Sea Kayak Double U18 female 00:37:43.85 5 1
Short Course Rod De La RosaSUP 14'18-54 male 00:37:46.16 6 3
Short Course Treston Vorac SUP 14'18-54 male 00:38:27.42 7 4
Short Course Bob Cooper Sea Kayak Sr. Masters 55+male 00:38:35.50 8 1
Short Course Chris Yacoub SUP 14'18-54 male 00:38:56.70 9 5
Short Course Vincent Huang SUP 14'Sr. Masters 55+male 00:39:19.04 10 1
Short Course Jake Simon Prone 14' 18-54 male 00:40:19.34 11 1
Short Course Calisa Hildebrand Sea Kayak Double 18-54 mixed 00:40:46.58 12 1
Short Course Christopher Adair SUP Under 12'6" 18-54 male 00:41:07.27 13 1
Short Course Jeff KayProne 14' 18-54 male 00:41:23.58 14 2
Short Course Cathy Huang SUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+female 00:41:39.40 15 1
Short Course Sunny Blende SUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+female 00:42:35.93 16 2
Short Course Nick Pettersen Sea Kayak 18-54 male 00:42:55.61 17 1
Short Course Renee Hoyer-nielsen SUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+female 00:43:48.00 18 3
Short Course Tony Graef SUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+male 00:45:03.26 19 1
Short Course Ashley Taylor SUP 12'6" 18-54 female 00:45:19.28 20 1
Short Course Shawn Ewing SUP Under 12'6" 18-54 male 00:45:28.99 21 2
Short Course Nikki Cimatu SUP Unlimited 18-54 female 00:46:23.58 22 1
Short Course Janice Callahan SUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+female 00:47:18.59 23 4
Short Course Ashley Helmetag SUP 14'18-54 female 00:47:26.02 24 1
Short Course Anise GemmellSea Kayak 18-54 female 00:47:39.79 25 1
Short Course Arline Thomas SUP 12'6" Sr. Masters 55+female 00:47:53.41 26 5
Short Course Mimi Towle SUP 14'18-54 female 00:55:23.74 27 2
Short Course Jennifer KlopferSUP 12'6" 18-54 female 00:55:27.96 28 2
Short Course Kathleen Shamp SUP Under 12'6" 18-54 female 00:56:32.89 29 1
Short Course Deirdre Geary SUP 14'18-54 female 00:58:01.11 30 3
Short Course Amanda Kahn-kirby SUP Under 12'6" 18-54 female 00:58:07.24 31 2
Short Course Bob Charlesworth SUP Under 12'6" U18 male 01:01:46.08 32 1
Short Course Kim Charlesworth SUP Under 12'6" 18-54 female 01:02:07.90 33 3