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Scott RickerA few weeks ago, friend and paddler Scott Ricker suffered a major stroke, and at press date is still in recovery at Northeast Rehab in Salem, NH. Cards or notes to: Scott Ricker, PO BOX 870 West Newbury, MA 01985.

Best wishes for a complete recovery, Scott.

USACK at USCA NationalsRemember that the combined Friday ICF K1 Championship races at USCA Nationals are also part of USACK’s eight Circuit A Races! They (together) form the sixth of the eight races.

National A Circuit Races1. 2-18-06 Weeki Wachee (FL) (20K) (90 points)2. 3-18-06 Lula Bridge (GA) (20K) (90 points)3. 6-10-06 US Team Trials, Lake Lanier (GA) (36K) (100 points)4. 6-24-06 Michiana Paddlefest (IN) (20K) (90 points)5. 7-23-06 Triangle Paddling Marathon (NC) (20K) (90 points)6. 8-11-06 USCA National Championships (WI) (25K) (95 points)7. 10-7-06 Holyoke Cup (MA) (36K) (90 points)8. 11-4/5-06 PaddleFest/Palmetto Challenge DoubleHeader

(times will be cumulative) (SC) (10K each) (95 points)

Cumulative points ranking from the fi rst six races will be posted at the awards pavilion in Badger Park, Peshtigo.

Cartoon Competition DeadlineAugust 4, 2006 - midnight CSTSee below:

Scott Ricker / USACK / Cartoon Aluminum Nationals / Current Buster

Club Comes Together For Great Event2006 Current Buster and Aluminum Nationals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tave LamperezThe St Charles Canoe Club has something to smile about! The 2006 Current Buster and Aluminum Nationals was a great success. We had 95 participants, most of them racing on both days! We had 8 different states represented!

It was a busy two days in the Fox River in St Charles, IL. Not often in northern Illinios can one have two wonderful days of 70+ degree temps and calm winds on the fi rst weekend of May. We really could not have had better race conditions.

The weekend of races had three distances. The National Championship Aluminum races had the 28 competitors (14 Aluminum canoes) paddle a full 15 miles with 7.5 miles upstream and 7.5 miles downstream in a two-lap pattern. That distance took over 2 1/2 hours to complete. The other USCA events were 9.5 miles of a single loop. The recreation classes did a single loop of 6 miles in length. We had over 20 club members helping out in the event.

The volunteers from the Club were outstanding! We put on a professional race and the lunch for participants and volunteers was outstanding!!!! Thanks to the leadership of Karl Teske, Steve Conlon, and Jennie Quill we had all areas covered. Your Race Chairperson, Tave Lamperez, got help from everybody this year.

USCA National Stock Aluminum Canoe Marathon Championships May 6, 20061st place winners in these classes are the 2006 National Champions for USCA Stock Aluminum Classes

C2 Women Alum 15 miles1 Ruth Sayger (AR) / Becky Burris (AR) . . . . . . . . 02:58:382 Sarah Lankford (MI) / Aimee Lechota (MI) . . . . . 03:23:00

C2 Woman Master Alum 15 miles1 Pat Bayers (FL) / Mary Ellen Waterson (IL) . . . . 03:19:48

C2 Men Alum 15 miles1 Clifton Rickey (AR) / Casey Rickey (AR) . . . . . . 02:34:022 Josh Quintel (MI) / Griffin Williams (MI) . . . . . . 02:42:543 Brian Wetmore (IL) / Tom Dunn (IL) . . . . . . . . . . 02:45:464 Patrick Hickey (IL) / Michael Hickey (IL) . . . . . . 02:50:165 Wally Werderich (IL) / Michael Kies (IL) . . . . . . 02:50:266 Jeff Ellison (IL) / Brian Ellison (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . 02:51:06

Original caption: “My wife thinks I suffer from separation anxiety . . .”

We’re sure you can come up with some paddle-slappers, too. Submissions, please, by email to Mike Ripple at <mripple@providers.org> Deadline: August 4, 2006Winning captions will be posted at Nationals and published in the Canoe News Nationals Results

Kayak Cartoon Caption Competition

The teams from Michigan: left to right, Griffin Williams, Dave Diget (coach), Sarah Lankford, Josh Quintel, Aimee Lechota.

Photo © 2006 by Doug Williams

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Aluminum Nationals / Current Buster

C2 Men Master Alum 15 miles1 Rocky Caldwell (MO) / Dale Burris (AR) . . . . . . 02:32:102 Jim Short (MO) / Doug Pennington (MO) . . . . . . 02:34:053 Tave Lamperez (IL) / Gareth Stevens (WI) . . . . . 02:37:174 Doug Berg (MN) / Greg Zophy (MN) . . . . . . . . . 02:37:265 Earl Peterson (IL) / Bruce Steinberg (IL) . . . . . . . 03:11:37

Notes from Gareth Stevens on the Aluminum raceTave Lamperez and I expected Rocky Caldwell & Dale Burris to be strong, but it surprised me how strong! Rocky and Dale quickly established a lead and put time on us all throughout the race.

Josh Quintel & Griffi n Williams from Michigan, whom we had seen last year in Wisconsin, and again at Nationals, got off to a very impressive start - those boys have some good sprint speed. Although they couldn’t keep the pace they hit at the start, they nonetheless showed huge improvement over the previous year and fi nished with a fi ne time.

We had quite the battle with Doug Berg & Greg Zophy, and after we fi nally got clear of them after the start, they kept coming back. It was only our wave that fended of attack after attack over the last three to four miles.

The teams we envied most, however, were Cliff & Casey Rickey and Doug Pennington & Jim Short, who rode each other for the whole race – and kept well out of our reach.

I could fi nd very few photos from Saturday’s races (the Aluminum Nationals and ten of the Current Buster classes). Sunday’s pick was somewhat better, with a nice collection from Rich Hodgkins, (see photo to left and the next pages).

Aluminum Nationals participants: left to right, kneeling: Mary Ellen Waterson, Pat Bayers; standing: Ruth Sayger, Wally Werderich (holding young George), Mike Kies, Becky Burris, Dale Burris, Brian Wetmore, Casey Rickey, Clifton Rickey, Doug Pennington, Sarah Lankford, Jim Short, Aimee Lechota, Josh Quintel, Tave Lamperez, Griffin Williams, Jeff Ellison, Doug Berg, Tom Ellison, Greg Zophy, Rocky Caldwell, Gareth Stevens.

Race organizer Tave Lamperez and partner Dave Simon prepare to launch for the C2 Master class (Rocky Caldwell in his C1)

Upper photo © 2006 by Doug Williams, lower photo © 2006 by Rich Hodgkins

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Current Buster, Day Two, Sunday, May 7C2 Women 10 Miles1 Tammy Cox (IL) / (none) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02:04:27

C2 Adult-Youth 10 Miles1 Pat Faul (IL) / Chris Shroder (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:45:362 Steve Luth (IL) / Alex Luth (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:49:19

C2 Recreation Men or Mixed 6 Miles1 Nick Josefik (IL) / Marin Garry (IL) . . . . . . . . . . 01:03:162 Jan Livengood (IL) / JB Livengood (IL) . . . . . . . 01:09:393 Claire Wolley (IL) / Brian Loll (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . 01:31:38

C2 Recreation Women 6 Miles1 Emily Hazel (MI) / Olivia Torano (MI) . . . . . . . . 01:13:262 Mary Ellen Waterson (IL) / Pat Bayers (FL) . . . . 01:13:533 Sarah Tomkins (MI) / Amanda Hazel (MI) . . . . . . 01:14:59

K1 Recreation Sea Kayak Man 6 Miles1 Rich Hodgkins (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:02:532 Brian Wetmore (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:03:113 Karl Teske (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:04:124 Don Howell (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:09:08

K1 Recreation Sea Kayak Woman 6 Miles1 Sandra Thorpe (WI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:11:26

Current Buster, Day One, Saturday, May 6C1 Man Master C1 10 Miles 1 Steve McAllister (IA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:32:542 William Van Haren (WI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:33:083 Don Walls (AR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:34:334 Don Alberda (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:36:405 Ray Grzenia (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:40:156 Dale Humphrey (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:41:307 Don Mueggenborg (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:43:178 George Braun (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:45:51

C1 Man 10 Miles 1 Todd Johnson (WI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:38:242 Ed Hahn (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:38:443 Fred Zeien (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:39:454 Don Browning (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:40:065 David Buckley (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:50:03

Mixed C2 10 Miles1 Jeff Palmquist (IL) / Chris Palmquist (IL) . . . . . . 01:29:072 Ben Josefik (IL) / Tammy Cox (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . 01:40:203 Dennis witt (IA) / Nancy Witt (IA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:48:35

Standard C2 10 Miles1 Doug Lange (IL) / Penny Massel (IL) . . . . . . . . . 01:50:15

Open Aluminum 10 Mile1 John Hazel (MI) / Amanda Hazel (MI) . . . . . . . . . 02:07:42

C2 Junior 10 Miles 1 Emily Hazel (MI) / Olivia Torano (MI) . . . . . . . . 01:43:00

ICF Kayak/Olympic K1 10 Miles 1 Patrick Sawyer (IN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:20:432 Kevin LeRoy (WI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:26:323 Richard Barker (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:30:42

Open Sea Kayak 10 Miles 1 Phillip Taylor (WI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:20:23* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *fastest time of the weekend2 Chad Mueller (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:30:093 Rich Besler (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:38:004 Steve Luth (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:43:125 Marget Cipolla (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:47:206 Mark Stuttle (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:51:27

Downriver 10 Miles1 Ted Beatty (IN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:24:572 Karl Teske (IL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:34:49

K2 10 Miles1 Daniel Sikora (IL) / Yuriy Ardashimkov (IL) . . . . 01:22:43

Rocky Caldwell (Men Master Aluminum champion) here paddling his C1 in the C2 Men race

Tom Wells (bow) & Don Mueggenborg, around the final buoy and heading for the finish ahead of Larry Steffens (bow) & Kevin Bradley

Aluminum Nationals / Current Buster

Photos © 2006 by Rich Hodgkins

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by Michael Ripple

C2 Men 10 Miles1 Mark Koenig (IL) / Ron Koenig (WI) . . . . . . . . 01:25:47* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *Fastest Canoe Time of the weekend2 Fritz Hansen (WI) / Brad Taggett (WI) . . . . . . . . . 01:25:553 Kevin LeRoy (WI) / Todd Johnson (WI) . . . . . . . 01:26:294 Steve McAllister (IA) / Garrett McAllister (IA) . . 01:26:465 Clifton Rickey (AR) / Casey Rickey (AR) . . . . . . 01:27:396 Josh Quintel (MI) / Griffin Williams (MI) . . . . . . 01:28:047 Rocky Caldwell (MO) / (none) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:30:458 Ben Josefik (IL) / Dave Buckley (IL) . . . . . . . . . . 01:33:209 Mike Kies (IL) / Wally Werderich (IL) . . . . . . . . . 01:35:17

C2 Master 10 Miles1 Gareth Stevens (WI) / Dave Timmerman (IA) . . . 01:26:252 Chris Palmquist (IL) / Jeff Palmquist (IL) . . . . . . 01:27:493 Jay Lancaster (WI) / Alan Lancaster (WI) . . . . . . 01:28:104 Jim Short (MO) / Doug Pennington (MO) . . . . . . 01:28:265 Doug Berg (MN) / Greg Zophy (MN) . . . . . . . . . 01:28:376 Tave Lamperez (IL) / Dave Simon (IL) . . . . . . . . 01:29:177 Tom Wells (IL) / Don Mueggenborg (IL) . . . . . . . 01:35:278 Kevin Bradley (IL) / Larry Steffens (IL) . . . . . . . 01:35:349 Ed Hahn (IL) / (none) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01:41:0410 Daryl Hodges (IL) / Warren Schleinzer (IL) . . . . . 01:41:37

Alex Luth (bow) and Steve Luth in their final sprint in the 10-mile Adult-Youth competition

Ripples ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aluminum Nationals / Current Buster

Photo © 2006 by Rich Hodgkins