Full results for the Cascade Distance Race are available on the Sound Rowers website ( http://soundrowers.org/results/cdr2005.htm ). The men's HPK category was somehow missed at the awards ceremony,

It was a long day for me Saturday, and today I was distracted by taking the kids to trick-or-treat at the waterfront. Anyway, most of the photos are now on the SR web site

Well phoey. I didn't see this message in time. I had carpooled down and wasn't sure if the fella that drove would be willing to wait for me or attend the after race session. I enjoyed the race and

Marty Myers will conduct a meeting of SR officers, trustees and race directors after the Cascade race tomorrow. Actually both our secretary and treasurer are out of the country, so I have offered to

I have paddled once in three weeks. The new job must be somewhere near that creek named "uppa". It is gratifying to see the recent discussion activity on this group. We need this collaboration to

At these events have you noticed the narrow chute and rubber mat at the finish line? In order to get a good time the transmitting and receiving antenna have to be in quite close proximity to the chip.

I don't think we have the kind of $$$$ for this idea: I don't know how much the related technology costs, but what happens to all those transmitting tags that go on the shoes of the entrants at the

The Ski to Sea has been using computerized timingfor years. I bet our program has been tweaked every year for the lastten....or more, and the results are still questionable. But oursis not simple.

What we could use is a set of narrow strips of whiteboard, one per boat, clipped or Velcroed to a backing. Everybody signing in puts their name(s) and boat number and class on a strip. The timers

There is a program used in rowing called Regattamaster, written by a rower here in Portland, Steve Jensen. The package costs $350 or $400, and can be used to manage a club (dues paid, membership

From: Bob Apter[mailto:bapter@...] Sent: Saturday, October 22, 20053:36 PM To: 'SoundRowers@...' Cc: lew plummer; larry bussinger;'Michael Lampi' Subject: RE: [SoundRowers] Re:Race timing The San

There were two Palm OS and one Win CE programs for hand-helds, plus a bunch of Windows (laptop) systems. Laura J. knew more than I about these (If you are monitoring, please contribute!). I loaded

hand-helds to record A handheld PDA can be obtained quite cheaply these days, especially if it is purchased from the used market. If the battery can be replaced or supplemented so that it can last for

Hello Sound Rowers, we wanted to give an update on our project and let everyone know about a new feature on our website. First for the update: We are outfitting out boat with slides, seats and foot

The finish line is the battle zone for the volunteers. When I heard of the timer programs that use a synch'able palmtop to log finishes, I was interested. I have used Palm products (in outdoor

I wrote a race timing system as an exercise in interactive databases. It wasn't particularly hard to do, but it would gave been an inconvenient amount of work to use it the first time, and it would

Reivers, The Cascade race used timing software last year. I know nothing about the system, and assume that it was experimental. It might be interesting for you to look at the results as posted on

In response to Steve Wells' email: I have really enjoyed being a guest rower at a few recent SR regattas. Great people, a hearty workout, and tasty post-race vittles. As a newbie to open water

2 items left behind: - Blue Nike Visor... "DRI-FIT" along left side of visor - White/Blue Regatta Sport zip-T... white body with blue vertical stripes down the sides... looks to be size SMALL Give

Hi Everyone, We were excited to be able to show off the ocean rowing boat to those of you who raced at the Medina/Mercer Is. race last weekend. Thanks for the great race! If anyone has any