Course change: This year race started at Sail Sand Point going south to the 520 bridge and back--ten miles total.
Picked up the canoe from Bill Anderson and raced it with Vern H. Unsure as to which iako was front/back, we returned to shore to switch them, during which the race started. We caught a few boats, including Bill A and Carl C on the south side of the 520 bridge. Then they capsized. We stopped and tried to backpaddle to get in position to help. The pilot from another double jumped in to help right their craft. They got underway and we escorted them to the turnaround point. Then the race between them and us began. Now running with the wind, we found we could pass far fewer boats. Apparently, some could surf the small waves much better than we could. We caught a few waves allowing us to pull away from Bill and Carl. We finished about five yards ahead of them.
I slept almost all the way back to Aberdeen.
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