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pfelgner 
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 Posted: September-22-2010 at 1:25am |
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James good to have met you and the others next time i want to check out that air. Pat
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Posted: September-23-2010 at 3:41pm |
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Pat neither boat will get winterized for atleast 3 more weeks. There is still time this year, or it will be at next years buckethead race.
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pfelgner
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Posted: September-23-2010 at 10:18pm |
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For some.reason.I can't FB anything to you i'll have to reboot. Anyway cool email me your number I am staying home this weekend but maybe I can jet over next weekend i'll call you. What lake do you ski on. Pat
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Posted: September-23-2010 at 11:05pm |
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Hollywood
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 12:39pm |
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Another great pic, awesome.
Just curious, but what are your average runs? 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 20 minutes? |
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pfelgner
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 2:33pm |
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Hollywood this was my first time every doing a race before but I have gone end to end at my lake just over 2 miles I had just learned about this race I will be doing more now I had fun so I will be working on better distance and if you go to pfelgner on youtube we have a clip of the start of this rece and the water conditions we're nothing I would have ever footed on I was happy with the first run at those conditions water got better so did the runs. There were a few that I guess went 4-5 miles before rotation. Pat
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 2:48pm |
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Pat looked like a veteran racer in that video.
Wood On our team, we have guys who will run 1-3 miles (me) and guys who will run 4-6 miles. There are teams that have footers who can barely make a deep up, and teams that have footers who will run 16 mile stretches. I met a guy in Atlanta, Steady Eddie who some say will run the boat out of gas if the conditions are right. The conditions have a lot to do with the run. In the rough water, a lot depends on the boat you're footing behind. We started off in some crap water. The BFN smoothed the water down nicely. The guy behind the MasterCraft was getting beat up. |
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Hollywood
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 2:54pm |
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Steady Eddie lives on Lake Norman and is a friend of Reid's. He's been pictured on the site here many times. I'm pretty sure he'll be around this weekend too. He sure can foot.
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RIPnSIX
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 3:02pm |
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What's going this weekend... I have this Barefoot race/competition bug... It's almost worse than footin' fever..
PS... Had a blast with you guys up there for the lockwood. Would foot with you guys anytime. |
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 3:29pm |
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Hollywood, you thinking about trying this out next year??? I'd be willing to give it a try. Although I know you have tons of guys on Deep Lake that are WAY better then me. Ha Maybe I'll just drive!
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pfelgner
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Posted: September-24-2010 at 8:44pm |
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Steve will be riding behind my boat more. Rip I am with you footin fever really sucks seasons coming to an end footin has been my passion more then ever this year still going to try and hook up with you this weekend probably sun if it works out i'll call you tomorrow. I am trying to hook up with James for a run or to before the end looking at a dry suit. Also thinking of planning a long weekend around beginning of year lugging a boat or two down to atlanta area if we can get a group to split up costs my buddy did it a few years ago.
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Posted: September-25-2010 at 1:04am |
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Hollywood team Top Gun has some very stout footers on their team. I watched Brent (Merlin) from team Top Gun foot just over 15 miles at 51MPH on the gps at the Buckethead race behind my Air. Cinditions for the most part were ideal for the last 10 miles. Lots of one footing alternating of the feet on these long runs.
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Posted: September-25-2010 at 9:28am |
As others have mentioned....it all depends. I skied in one on Beaver Dam Lake here last year. It was windy (3' swells) and got canceled on Saturday then rescheduled for Sunday. It was still a bit chippy on Sunday morning. One of the guys on a team with a SkiPro skied to the turn around point, about 11 miles. As I recall they ended up making a skier change a couple hundred yards before the finish in order to meet the requirement that everyone took a rotation! Skiing up on the table of that boat was a big advantage....no BFN were in the race that day. They also had rope length and the rigging dialed in. Others, ours included, had a tougher time and struggled skiing through rough water for the entire 22 miles. Our runs varied from a hundred yards to a mile or so..... |
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Hollywood
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Posted: September-27-2010 at 12:15pm |
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I was kind of curious as to where I'd fall with the rest of the competition. I'm sure I'll participate in one of these some day.
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Posted: October-17-2011 at 8:06pm |
Brendan do you still have this pic file saved? If so can you send it to me? |
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Posted: October-21-2011 at 6:11pm |
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James,
What's your email? |
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