Regatta Chair -- Del Olsen
PRO -- Bill Gage

IC NA's on YouTube

It was a pretty close seven race series. Seattle boatbuilder Chris Maas
eeked out a narrow one point victory over visiting Australian Hayden Virtue.
In third was Erich Chase of Novato only three points out of first. 

These are not the kind of canoes you paddle along singing "Alouette."  It's
more like Mr Rogers asking "Can you say Carbon Fiber?" The sliding seat is
just the beginning. Add in jibing dagger boards and a great big spaghetti
pile of lines, self tacking jibs, reverse sheer, cruiser sterns, extreme
catamaran-ish hulls and you start to get the picture.

Top breeze in the long distance race hit 20 knots. Otherwise it was mostly
in the low to mid teens for the buoy races hardly the demons worst stuff.

Participants also came from as far away as Calgary, Canada and exotic Rhode
Island

The big surprise was Erich Chase in 3rd. He hadn't been in a canoe in 7
years. Erich sailed a brand new Chris Maas design which Chris delievered
only a couple days before the NA's. They epoxied it together during a couple
all nighters. It left the shop with a barely primed hull.  Erich was the
early series leader. He even won the "speed trials" where he hit an GPS
measured 13.4  Not bad in a 17' canoe -- and it wasn't nuking either.

Great Shots from Patric Grey 
Pressure Drop pics and story
Norcal sailing pics and story
RYC Gallery

Entrants 
Results
(Time Trial)

Competitors

Del Olsen  RYC
Mikey Radzieowski RYC
Erich Chase RYC
David Liebenberg RYC
Ken Austin CAN
Chris Maas Seattle
Hayden Virtuu, AUS - Reigning World Champion
Willey Clark RI
David Clark RI