T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] The Wye Island Marathon

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Re: [Electric Boats] The Wye Island Marathon

I went to the boat show at the Chespaekae Maritime Museum on Saturday and saw one canoe with an electric auxialry. Did the race occur?

-----Original Message-----
From: George Kuck <chesapeake410@yahoo.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 1:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] The Wye Island Marathon

Hello,

I was at the Wye landing where I expected to see the boats at the half way point from around 11 AM to 1 PM but did not see any electric boats !? Does anyone know what time they arrived? at Wye?Landing ???I thought I read that the race started at 10 AM and included a mandatory 10 minute stop at Wye Landing, so I expected to see some electric boats arrive by 1PM, did the race start late???? I assumed that maybe the race was canceled do to windy conditions and left around 1 PM

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Happy sailing,

George Kuck

Chestertown, Md.?

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--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Charles <charlie@ilimer.com> wrote:

From: Charles <charlie@ilimer.com>

Subject: [Electric Boats] The Wye Island Marathon

To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12:30 PM

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The 9th annual Wye Island Marathon took place on Friday October 2d, 2009. It was a bit breezy, and various minor mishaps cut the finishing competitors to only two. Jay Bliss's Elektra, with a Prius battery pack edged out Jim Campbell's perennial competitor E-Canoe for the win.

The event got some online press in Popular Mechanics. Although the article is fun reading, it makes the even sound a bit more challenging than it is. Any competent production boat can do the course in comfort and style.

http://www.popularm echanics. com/outdoors/ boating/4333018. html

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