After returning from Scandinavia on the weekend, I hopped in the car Monday morning for another long drive. This time instead of vacationing, it was to drive to Eberbach, Germany to pick up my new single and tour the Empacher factory. My Dutch rowing partner was extremely friendly and volunteered to drive me […]
Rebecca again with another quick regatta report. This morning REI hosted the Dam-to-Dam regatta on Tempe Town Lake, a regatta featuring human-powered craft of all sorts (but mostly kayakers and rowers). This is a pretty low-key event, more about the chance to hang out with other boaters than about guts and glory and […]
Paula left to meet her mother in London for a few days, leaving me as a bachelor in the Netherlands. While she was gone I decided to go carousing through the Netherlands drinking and hanging out with my buddies. By the end of the day I had seen a lot of the Netherlands, […]
Way back in May, Ted and Paula were filmed and interviewed by the Arizona Highways TV show (a spinoff of the magazine) for a piece about rowing on Tempe Town Lake. It was supposed to be broadcast in June or so, but we never could find any indication that it had been shown. Today Ted […]
On December 10, Paula had her first European race, in the Dames dubbel-twee (W2X) event in the ERV Beatrix Head Trials. This is a relatively small local race, but with distances in the Netherlands being so short and rowing relatively widespread, three clubs from other cities participated as well as the club members. Race conditions […]
Here are a few more marathon pictures:
Kathy and Rebecca
Kathy and Rita in the back seat
Here are some of the pictures from the marathon, in no particular order.
Rigging the boats
Dave and Kathy
Dave finally reaches the finish line
Dave launches our new mascot, the flying monkey
E
Outlaw champions!
The dragonboat
Just to warn you, this is a wee bit long because we had many adventures.
Last weekend, four Outlaws (myself, Dave, Kathy, and E) competed in the rowing marathon in Louisiana. It was an event-filled weekend, beginning with a huge thunderstorm Friday night (complete with tornado warnings for the area where our boats were stored), […]
Now that I know how to post pictures, here are some pictures from Hot Head!
An Outlaw Dawn
Outlaw Dockmistresses
Carrie and Rebecca get ready for some wild waves
Kathy and E
Spectator Dave
Kathy prepares to launch with Pete
Our number one spectator hard at work
Rebecca and Carrie
Another successful day for the Outlaws!
by Rebecca
Well, it was a hugely successful regatta for the Outlaws on our home turf. Not only did we have a good showing amongst the volunteers, with both Kathy and Carrie running the show on the dock, but we also believe that we had the highest per-capita success rate of the regatta, winning every event […]
October 21, 2006
Ted and his partner Erik-Jan rowed together in the Veterans 2x at the Tromp Boat Race in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The race was a 5.2 meter race on a cannel through the Dutch countryside with great weather by local standards. The course even had a classic windmill near […]
The 4th Annual Arizona Outlaw Erg Marathon was held September 23rd in Phoenix Arizona. There were a total of 15 participants that conquered the distance of 42,195 meters, many of them doing it for the first time. Everyone successfully completed the marathon and almost everyone set a new personal record.
We used avenue this year to […]
The Outlaws @ USRowing Masters Nationals
Ted (2 Silver & 1 Bronze), Pete (1 Silver, 2 Bronze), Iskra (1 Gold, 1 Silver), and Rebecca all attended the 2006 USRowing Masters Nationals Regatta.
Ted started the 3100 mile (320 gallons of gas) trip to the 2006 USRowing Masters Nationals regatta 5 days before the event started. The first […]
Paula and Ted quickly packed up from the Rural Henley in Klamath Falls, Oregon to make the six hour drive to Sacramento for the USRowing Southwest Regional Championship. On arrival, Ted & Paula called Kathy, who had flown in that afternoon, to meet at the venue to unload and rig the boats. We were […]
On Saturday July 8, Ted and Paula raced in the Rural Henley Regatta in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It’s a small race, but is conveniently situated for us; Ted’s parents live a couple hours to the west, his patnernal grandparents a couple of hours to the east. This was the first time these grandparents had seen […]
Ted’s boat got totaled in the storm last night. You can see what happened in these photos. That entire heavy rack of oars got blown onto the boat. (Odd; I’d have thought it was placed to be a little sheltered from the wind, but there may have been eddies.) We’ve heard that the wind was […]
Newbie Outlaw members Julie Busskohl and “E” Diethelm (that would be me–the one writing this) took a road trip to Marina Del Rey to participate in their first non Tempe Town Lake Regatta. We were accompanied by the spouses so we had plenty of help getting the shells rigged and in the water. Julie […]
Lake Tahoe is a gorgeous, gorgeous place to row. And the North Tahoe Rowing Regatta is a great way to enjoy it.
Dave and Eva have been rowing this regatta and trying to talk the rest of us Outlaws into it for several years now. This year Ted and I were finally able to make […]
Meeting held May 17, 2006 at the Rio Salado Operations Center
Topic: Updated on Boat House plans and specifically the effect on private boat owners
Link to meeting minutes distributed by the City of Tempe
Notes prepared by: Ted Paxton
City of Tempe Representatives:
Joe O’Connor – Small Craft Coordinator
Leigh Schofield – Recreation Supervisor
Disclaimer 1: The city officials made […]
The Gold Rush Regatta this year was awesome. The weather was in the high 70’s, with a minor head wind in the morning diminishing to perfect glass conditions by 10:00 am that lasted until the end of the Regatta at 730 PM. The Outlaws did well, with everyone winning at least 1 […]