Two teen teams from Newport Aquatic Club have committed to competing hoping they will be able to race with others their age from Hawaii and other places around the world! Kai Bartlett and Pat Dolan who won the Molokai relay last year and finished second overall in the 2005 Expedia.com Kauai World Challenge are returning. Also returning is a strong contingent from Australia including Greg Long who always finishes near the top! From Hong Kong, James Shortis and Mark Pollard are returning as well to this challenging event with the best party of the year!

These are some words from Danny Ching, via Josh Crayton. Danny is traveling with an emerging paddler named Tyson Poppler (Dana Outrigger). Got stories to add? feel free to email me ([email protected]) for posting.

Brief updates of day 1 from Danny Ching

Had the 1st day of racing. Today started out foggy, then got sunny and hot, then windy, then thunder stormed. Luckily Tyson and I got to race in the windy conditions right as a thunder storm passed over and dumped on us.

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