After threatening rain all day we managed to have a great race with a light southerly to make the paddle back even faster after a harder than normal paddle up. Geoff got a bit carried away with his warm up and missed his start time, he more than made up for it knocking 4 minutes off last weeks time; claiming the race win and continuing his good start to the season. Bill knocked almost three minutes of his best, while Dane’ & Adam, getting more in sync, knocked 2 and a half minutes off their time. Alex knocked almost 90 seconds off his best, Claye about 40 seconds and Tom another 7 seconds. The remainder struggled a bit being about a minute off their best times. We also had the first race of the season from Ken McLean and James Caspar, welcome back guys. Thanks to Dave Allan for timing, it is much appreciated. The results are below.
| Paddler | Handicap | Gun Time | Actual Time | Position | New Handicap |
| Geoff Macqueen | 20:00 | 58:55 | 38:55 | 1 | 22:42 |
| Bill Williams | 0:39 | 59:04 | 58:25 | 2 | 3:18 |
| Dane’ & Adam | 10:03 | 59:13 | 49:10 | 3 | 12:30 |
| Phil Barratt | 23:37 | 59:19 | 35:42 | 4 | 26:41 |
| Alex Robinson | 24:51 | 60:10 | 35:19 | 5 | 26:17 |
| Claye Mace | 23:02 | 60:59 | 37:57 | 6 | 23:40 |
| Tom Mountney | 30:54 | 61:28 | 30:34 | 7 | 31:01 |
| Mark Rathmell | 29:09 | 62:31 | 33:22 | 8 | 29:09 |
| Colin Locke | 24:16 | 62:33 | 38:17 | 9 | 24:16 |
| Adam Rolls | 23:44 | 62:57 | 39:13 | 10 | 23:44 |
| Richard Pearson | 33:00 | 71:30 | 38:30 | 11 | 24:03 |
| James Caspar | 16:00 | 61:27 | 45:27 | NA | 16:12 |
| Ken McLean | 20:00 | 57:38 | 37:38 | NA | 23:59 |
| Amanda Chong | – | – | – | – | GO |
| April Nelson | – | – | – | – | 11:05 |
| Dave Allan | – | – | – | – | 14:57 |
| Dylan Craw | – | – | – | – | 23:43 |
| Jack Bower | – | – | – | – | 14:36 |
| Jozina Macqueen | – | – | – | – | 7:26 |
| Michael Peters | – | – | – | – | 26:41 |
| Paul Walker | – | – | – | – | 28:16 |
| Phil Nelson | – | – | – | – | 23:37 |
Check above for your handicap for next week, gun time will again be 6:30pm. If you miss your start time you can still race, have your time recorded and score points. New paddlers will be able to set their handicap time.
Check the main Hadspen page for more details.
See you all next week.
