It was a great day of racing at RATI. Our Mixed open long course took home 2nd place and the mixed open short course came in 1st! Look out for some pictures later this week.
We will be resuming our normal practice schedule on Monday night, if we can get as many people as possible there early, that will help make unloading the trailer and rerrigging the race boats smooth and fast.
This upcoming Saturday, May 6th, we have paddlers going to the Race Around the Island near Portland. If you're planning to go and need some information, talk to Nessa or Steve.
Good luck! Bring home some hardware!
With most of our people and boats gone, we will have to cancel practice for Saturday. We will be back to our normal schedule on Monday, May 8th.
Unfortunately, due to a lack of experienced steersmen and experienced paddlers to run practice, we won't be meeting on Saturday. You still have Wednesday 04/19 to paddle and we'll be back at it on Monday too. In the mean time it will be a good day to cross train and make your plans for RATI on May 6th. We also wish all the paddlers going to Rusty Iron this weekend good luck!
Due to Weather, practice will be cancelled Wednesday 04/16. Forecast looks promising for Saturday, we'll be back on the water then.
This week we had a visiting paddler at practice. Hector was in town visiting from Hawaii, and he came out to join TCOCC for some time on the water. He also gave us the kind gift of a shirt from his club, which Bob is proudly holding in the picture.
We are putting together an order for new shirts. They are the A4 Performance Cooling Line shirts (A4.com) if you want to check them out. Nessa will have some samples at practices.
We will be racing in red shirts. The red shirts are available in long sleeve, short sleeve, tank, and muscle shirts. We will also be offering bright green shirts. The bright green shirts are available in long sleeve and short sleeve.
We will be getting the shirts from a local printer. If anyone is interested in printing our design on other items (e.g. sweatshirts, bags, etc), we can make that happen. You will just need to provide it.
You have until April 14th to place your order with Nessa or Lauren.
We are officially underway! There was great turnout for Saturday and Monday. Having enough paddlers for 3 wa'a is a great place to be at the beginning of the season. We are starting out with our full regular practice schedule: 5:45 P.M Monday and Wednesday; and 9:15 A.M. Saturday. Our first race of the season is Saturday May 6. I hope to see lots of new and returning paddlers in the coming weeks and look forward to a fun season on the water.
Less than a Week now! Huge thank you to everyone who came out to help get the wa'a off the trailer and rig them for our first practice next week. Everything went smoothly and we are all ready to get on the water. The weather even cooperated; it turned out to be a really nice day outside and I'm hoping we can have that good luck for next weekend too. Check out the gallery below for pictures of the process while you get your Paddle, PFD and gear ready for next week.
It's starting to get real now! The Canoes left their winter home and are ready to be rigged next weekend.
Tommorrow's the Day! Don't forget about the season kick-off meeting Sunday March 19th, 2:30 P.M. at the Richland Public Library. We'll be talking about the start of the season, our race calendar, and other fun events for the for the 2017 season. Two more weeks and we're on the water!
Losing some sleep today may be frustrating but don't despair paddling is only 3 weeks away! One advantage of the time change is the extra evening light allows us to start our full 3-day per week practice schedule right away after April 1st.
We are now 1 week out from the season kick-off meeting. If you go to our new calendar page you can save a link to your personal calendar so you don't forget. There is also a Facebook event, please invite your friends we want to have as many people at the meeting as we can.
New season, new website. As the 2017 approaches we have switched over to www.tricitiesoutrigger.org. This will make it easier to provide information to our members and hopefully help us reach new people and bring them into the club. In these early months the site may be in flux as we add new content, but we will make sure all information is as up to date and accurate as possible. Club members can also expect to continue having e-mails sent out with information about practices meetings and races.
