First and foremost thank you to everyone that came out and supported the first annual K-BOMB! Big thanks to Rafting Randys, Maine Kayak, The Marshalls, New England Outdoor Center, The Venus Project, all the volunteers and everyone else that helped make this a success. Also a big thanks to Florida Power and Light (the operators of Harris Station dam) for allowing this event and giving us some bigger water! The Venus Project tore it up at the after party and we all had one heck of a time at The Marshalls. Hope to see you all at the next stop, “The Race That Never Was,” on the West Branch of the Penobscot River.
Pre-race meeting with all the K-BOMB whitewater kayakers!
The race went great and times were close. Unbelievably there was a tie for first place. It really couldn’t have been a better match-up however, with local die hard and long time boater Chris Hull tying with Kennebec regular and Video Boater, Zack DiSilvestro!
They settled who would take which half of the prizes over a good ol’ beer chug!
Zack and Chris duke it out over a beer chug at the first annual K-BOMB whitewater kayak race
Speaking of prizes, we can’t thank Rafting Randys and Maine Kayak enough for donating such awesome swag!
Rafting Randys and Maine Kayak hooked the K-BOMB up!
We still have an Astral Green Jacket up for grabs at “The Race That Never Was” thanks to RAFTING RANDYS!
The Green Jacket donated by Rafting Randys
The official results have been posted on the Facebook event page “Send It, Whitewater Racing Series” and here it is again:
Name Finish RANK
Zack Disilvestro 18:58 1 (tie)
Chris Hull 18:58 1 (tie)
Ben Schott 19:05 2
Mason Trumble 19:17 3 (tie)
William Mook 19:17 3 (tie)
Chuck Mathieu 19:25 4 (tie)
Bryce Hanlee 19:25 4 (tie)
Ryan Davis 19:29 5
Adam Swett 19:33 6
Jeffrey Tillinghast 19:42 7
Scott Ewen 19:46 8
Taylor Walker 19:50 9
Jesse Cullivan 19:51 10 (tie)
Brian Cataldo 19:51 10 (tie)
Jeremy Miller 19:59 11
David Nesmith 20:05 12
jcass 20:10 13
Jake Risch 20:11 14
Steve Dickey 20:12 15
Andrew Wahl 20:14 16
Mike Mainer 20:24 17
Noah Hale 20:28 18
Greg Smith 20:35 19
Rig Wakelin 20:57 20
WOMENS’ COMP
Jane Koopman 19:55 1
Kelsy Moody 20:47 2
OPEN
Kevin Ross 18:51 1
Zack D. Adam SweTt
(Dynamic Duo) 19:30 2
Ryan Gerry 19:38 3
YEAH SENDING!
With the K-BOMB behind us its time to start focusing on The Race That Never Was! There was a lot of smack talk after the K-BOMB about who’s going to take it. With only seconds dividing the top of the pack the “Biggest Sender,” best time between both races, is still anyones game!
Visit the Race Registration page to sign up for The Race That Never Was today and don’t miss out on another epic event right here in good old MAINE!
All 28 of the first annual K-BOMB racers!
great wrap-up! so bummed to have missed it, but it looks like ya’ll had a killer weather and wicked good time.
See you on the ‘nob.
zeke
Not enough females. Ladies get on the river!
Jane you need to rally some chicks for the nob race!
Jane- its gonna be a show down Aug 4.
haha yes! get the smack talk rollin