Congratulations all Wye island marathon participants. So cool to see the article in Popular Mechanics albeit a little dramatic. It was great read national coverage of some do it yourself electric boat enthusiasts.
Hans
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From: Charles <charlie@ilimer.
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] The Wye Island Marathon
To: electricboats@
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 8:57 PM
George:
Sorry you missed them. They hit Wye landing at probably 2:30, since the start was a little late due to my problems with the ElectroShell and Geoff Elliot's dampening his kayak electrics.
Enter an electric boat next year or come ride one of the escort boats. This year there were three escorts.
Charlie Iliff
--- In electricboats@ yahoogroups. com, George Kuck <chesapeake410@ ...> wrote:
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> 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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> 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.
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