Ok so yes, race day was two days ago but hey, I’ve been busy, and tired, so it took a while to write about it lol
We competed at the Inlet Spring Regatta in Port Moody this past Saturday. It is the second year of the festival, and the second year we have competed in it. Both years have been great!
https://www.inletspringregatta.com/ – here’s the Regatta’s website if you want to check it out.
You know those jokes about Canada where people tease about how you can experience all possible weather patterns in one day? That was what Saturday was like.
There was wind, sunshine, more wind, cloud coverage, even more wind, rain, hail, did I mention wind, then sunny…with a side of wind. 😉
Each team was supposed to race 4 times but the water conditions became too dangerous and they cancelled the last two races of the day. Doesn’t happen often, so you know it is bad when!
What I found slightly amusing is that after they declared races 3 and 4 cancelled, did the math to figure out who placed where (based on Races 1 and 2’s results) and the medals were handed out, the wind calmed a bit and the sun came back out. So personally, I think we could’ve kept going, but it was too late at that point. Can you imagine trying to get all the teams to return their medals so they can go race again and hopefully still win them? Not a thing that would go over well lol
For this festival they don’t hand out medals, they hand out woodals, because they make their medals from wood. They are really nice, and unique, oh, and did I mention yet that my team won one? 😉
We won Gold in Division B, were ranked 5th for the entire festival, definitely not a bad way to start the race season!
My team being goofy 🙂
The day after at work, yes I know I look tired! The filter couldn’t save me this time lol
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
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