Hobie Treasure Island Ocean Paddling Series draws to a close
[Photos] courtesy Lex Raas
Race 3 dawned with the promise of a hot but beautiful day on the Florida Sunshine Coast. Word was definitely out on this Hobie Series and at the start line we had folks from as far afield as North Carolina and Miami. A record 27 x OC1's as well as 11 x Surfskis, 9 x Sea Kayak, 5 x Paddleboards, 2 x Crazy Stand up Paddleboards, 1 x OC2, 1 x Sit on Top, a really great turn out.
An all in start was signalled at 10am and with temperatures in the mid 90's
and humidity also in the 90's, it was all about endurance in the heat.
However, a blistering pace on flat water was set by the leaders of the long
course.
Reid Hyle, winner in the surfski class averaged 7.4mph while John Edwards
winning the OC1 division managed a solid 6.95mph on his Hurricane. David
Toppi on his Sea Kayak averaged 6mph for the race. Reid managed a
comfortable win in the surfski class, however John Edwards and David Toppi
had to fight hard right up to the end to win their classes.
Andy Benazilla burned up the short course on his OC1 with the well known
Joseph Pettigrew on his Surfski only 59 sec behind. John Keaveny won the
Sea Kayaks. Mike O'Shaughnessy won the Paddleboards with Andy Hill winning
the Stand up Paddleboard division.
A record was set for the youngest competitor, Kaeli Streeter at 9 years
old, paddling with her Dad Tim on an OC2, they completed the short course
in a very respectable 42 minutes.
The third race provided the overall classification for the Inaugural Race
Series with the following results:
LONG COURSE OVERALL SERIES WINNERS OC1 Open John Edwards (also overall OC1 Winner) OC1 Masters Harry Mountain OC1 Seniors Lex Raas OC1 Veteran Mike Sieber OC1 Relay Rea Sieber and Tonya Streinz SSki Open Reid Hyle (also overall Ski winner) SSki Masters Lonn Benson SKay Overall Paul Mehring SHORT COURSE OVERALL SERIES WINNERS OC1 Open Kevin Kemp OC1 Ladies Open Tara Miller OC1 Ladies Senior Pat Beyers OC1 Grand Veteran Bob Terbush (also overall OC1 winner) SSki Ladies Open Karen Mirlenbrink (also overall Ski winner) SKay Overall Jeannie Schaffer HOBIE TREASURE ISLAND SUMMER PADDLING SERIES RESULTS RACE #3 LONG COURSE --- OVERALL OveralNAME COURSE CLS DIV POS TIME 1 Reid Hyle L Men Open SS 1 1:06:48 2 Rob Mirlenbrink L Men Open SS 2 1:09:12 3 Alan Poulton L Men Open SS 3 1:09:16 4 Bruce Gibson L Men Seniors SS 1 1:10:31 5 John Edwards L Men Open OC1 1 1:10:41 6 Harry Mountain L Men Masters OC1 1 1:11:08 7 Tony Bond L Men Seniors OC1 1 1:12:26 8 Cortland Reilly L Men Masters OC1 2 1:15:34 9 Jean Raas L Men Open OC1 2 1:16:10 10 Lex Raas L Men Seniors OC1 2 1:17:10 11 Lon Benson L Men Masters SS 1 1:18:20 12 Michael Owens L Men Open OC1 3 1:18:37 13 Ben Stillman L Men Open OC1 4 1:19:13 14 Larry Frederick L Men Seniors OC1 3 1:20:01 15 Karl Vogel L Men Seniors OC1 4 1:20:42 16 Michael Hoffman L Men Masters SS 2 1:20:50 17 Mike Hughes L Men Open SS 4 1:20:56 18 Burch Baskett L Men Masters OC1 3 1:21:32 19 Jonathan Moore L Men Open SS 5 1:21:51 20 David Toppi L Men Masters SK 1 1:21:53 21 Jim Lewis L Men Open OC1 5 1:22:08 22 Paul Mehring L Men Seniors SK 1 1:22:17 23 Stanley Holdquist L Men Veteran SK 1 1:25:33 24 William Brannum L Men Masters OC1 4 1:27:08 25 Mike Sieber L Men Veteran OC1 1 1:27:25 26 Anthony Pasco L Men Open OC1 5 1:27:39 27 Mike Holland L Men Veteran OC1 2 1:28:48 28 Edward Francavilla L Men Masters SK 2 1:28:50 29 Louise Vaoala L Women Open OC1 1 1:29:15 30 Tamera Wells L Women Masters OC1 1 1:29:38 31 Dennis Guluzy L Men Seniors OC1 5 1:29:38 32 Lewis Bayers/Deven Antony R Men Relay OC1 1 1:31:52 33 Van Perry L Men Masters SK 3 1:36:23 34 Rea Sieber/Tonya Streitz R Women Relay OC1 1 1:36:53 35 Wyatt Payne L Men Masters ST 1 1:41:39 HOBIE TREASURE ISLAND SUMMER PADDLING SERIES RESULTS RACE #3 SHORT COURSE POS NAME COURSE CLS DIV TIME 1 Andy Bezanilla S Men Open OC1 1 0:39:57 2 Joseph Pettigrew S Men Grand MasterSS 1 0:40:56 3 John Keaveny S Men Veteran SK 1 0:41:19 4 Karen Mirlenbrink S Women Open SS 1 0:41:50 5 Mike Zajac S Men Senior OC1 1 0:42:06 6 Tim/Kaeli Streeter S Mixed Open OC2 1 0:42:38 7 Norman Nejdert S Men Masters SS 1 0:44:29 8 Mike O'Shaugnessy S Men Open PB 1 0:46:07 9 Bob Terbush S Men Grand MasterOC1 1 0:47:21 10 JP Atherholt S Men Open PB 2 0:47:48 11 Pat Bayers S Ladies Seniors OC1 1 0:50:22 12 Tara Miller S Ladies Open OC1 1 0:52:12 13 Kevin Kemp S Men Open OC1 2 0:53:18 14 Ed Malanik S Men Seniors SK 1 0:54:13 15 Jeannie Shaffer S Women Open SK 1 0:55:18 16 Michael Belsky S Men Open PB 3 0:59:09 17 Daryn Smith S Men Open PB 4 1:04:17 18 Shari Francavilla S Women Open SK 2 1:09:35 19 Andrew Hill S Men Open PBS 1 1:18:03 20 Joe Lipka S Men Open PBS 2 1:22:08 21 Roland Palot S Men Seniors PB 1 1:23:13
Posted by keizo on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 3:48pm