well...Im back in Germany after a long few days.
Id like to thank all of the racers, club members, mother nature, and sponsors for making this the best gathering of tunnel boats EVER!
We still have MANY MANY tunnel racers that havent made the trip to this one yet, and we (CMB) hope to change that for next year. This is a race you simply cannot miss. With well over 8 THOUSAND views on this thread alone, the champion caliber competition and over 150 boats, the popularity of this race has become ten-fold that of what we, the newly formed little boat club, expected 3 years ago when the idea came around.
It was a real pleasure meeting, hangin out, and racing with Kris and Louise(Australia), Shane and Terry (Bermuda), and Mike Locke (Canada), Rusty and Deryl Nesbitt (and their better halfs), Ed Ritchie, Bill Van Kirk, Jul Alvarez, .... and I know that I have left out many new faces Ive met, but those are a few that come to mind.
Big thanks to Mark Scott for taking 1000's (literally) of pictures, I think that camera was permanently grafted to his head by the end of the race.
Congrats to Mike Z. for a repeat championship in 20 tunnel, You have to have your **** together to come out on top in this class, as there were MANY MANY ballistic boats that could have been in the top. With a close second in sport 20, Mike also took the overall High Points award in the two largest classes of Sport 20 and 20 Tunnel, an unbeleivable task with such stiff competition.
The same goes for Kevin Lee in 20 sport, many of the IW folks may not know Kevin as he doesnt get on here much, hopefully that will change. Kevin is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet and he would do anything for you. He had an awesome running lynx/OS to capture the win in the extremely competetive sport 20 class which had over 30 boats entered.
Not take anything away from any other winners, but those two just stick out in my mind at the moment.
More to come....im beat and its getting close to bed time...
~James
PS, Bermudians make extremely good black rum. Thanks again Shane!