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After the disaster of being abandoned by my team at daVinci Days, I recruited a new team. Abe, who just graduated from Cresent Valley High, was ready for a non-school team. And Kevin was a student at Corvallis High, which had just decided to drop the Kinetic Sculpture event for the future.

Abe wasn't available for Port Townsend. But Kevin was. He and I piloted. Unfortunately that means I got no pictures except for the pictures of the trophys below.

The Day Before

The day before the race the safety checks are performed. For us, the most fun part is the float test. Once we got into the water we just didn't want to get out. We were having so much fun running slalome around the pilings and the boats. But eventually hunger got the best of me and we got out.

Later that evening John, Kevin and I decided to rent sea kayaks and go out into the sound. After looking at kayaks a little bit I suggested we take Rex out instead. The suggestion was well received.

Since we were putting a bit more weight on Rex than the pontoons are really designed for, we were careful how we arranged ourselves. That meant I had to stand on a pontoon rather than pedal. No problem.

It was delightful viewing the coastline from a quiet boat. We stayed out about as long as was safe. The sun was starting to set when we finally hit land again. Wonderful!

The Race

The Artsy Fartsy award wasn't for the art on our Kinetic Sculpture. Instead we were expected to create a work of art from some odds and ends in an envelope they handed us. Now, you really don't have a lot of time to be creating this sort of thing while racing. And if you *do* create something, where are you going to store it? But somehow when I looked at these items, plus some empty water bottles we had lying around, I saw how to put them together to make a passable Kinetic Sculture Racer. I wish I had a picture of it here. Not that it was that good. But it would give you an idea of how little you had to accomplish to win this award. :-}

I think we got the Sportsmanship award because we made our tools and our time available to whoever needed them. And I doubt this figured into the award, but I was late to the award ceremony because I was helping a young kid fix the flat on his bike.

Copyright (C) C Allen Brown 2002.