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Oakmont regatta draws record numbers
By Celanie Polanick
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH
Sunday, July 27, 2008
For an instant, free beach vacation, there's one place to ohio vacation spots go this afternoon: the final cheap vacation to the beach day of the 106th Oakmont Yacht Club Regatta.
The festival drew a record number of boats this year -- more than 120, compared to 60 to 80 in previous years -- and a total of about 3,000 people are expected, said Molly Frank, newport oregon vacation rentals 59, of Harmar, the club's vice tenn vacation commodore. For vacation in north west georgia landlubbers, that's like "vice president," Frank said.
Boaters came from Akron, Ohio; Wheeling, West westgate vacation villas Virginia, the Beaver Valley and beyond, in spite of rising gas prices, Frank said.
"I think they all las palmas vacation decided, 'We'll do one spa vacation in fl (local festival) this year'," she said. "I'm just glad they picked mine."
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Many boaters came up from Pittsburgh -- including Justin Hadricky, 29, who lives vacation rentals on pacific coast on his 44-foot houseboat at Washington's Landing and said he doesn't worry about gas prices.
"You know what? This is what we live for," he said. "We'll cut back in other ways."
Nick Colledge, 27, of Brackenridge brought his parents' 52-foot houseboat to the regatta, as well as thousand island vacation rentals a team of friends to help him win the tug-of-war held in the gritty sand and gravel on the shore. They've won the event together western michigan vacation rentals several times in the past four years, and wear matching shirts and sweatbands.
This year, Colledge and his team -- Justin Bianco, 28, of New Kensington, John Rzeczkowski, 27, of Harrison, Rick Florentine, 35, of Brackenridge walt disney vacation and Jerimiah Silliman, 27 of Tarentum -- trounced their opponents again, and are headed to the finals today. Winning a tug-of-war is "all about adrenaline," they said.
For a younger champion, it was about enthusiasm instead. Tarin Mock, 10, of Harmar placed in the innertube race and won the scavenger hunt and the sack race. Tarin said she loves the regatta whistler vacation rentals and wants to become a bahamas vacation mermaid someday -- or maybe just a swim teacher, if for some reason science fails to develop an operation to change a human into a mermaid.
"People call me a river rat, but the thing is, I don't take baths in the river," she vacation rentals bradenton fl smoker friendly said.
Her father, Aaron Mock, 34, won the "canoe chug," a canoe race that involves paddling along the length huntington beach vacation of a short dock, turning around and coming back, then comparing your time with those of the other paddlers.
He beat out Ryan Bennis, 33, of Tarentum, the reigning champion since 2004.
The race is a lot harder now that the rules have changed, Bennis said. In the vacation rental rehoboth delaware beach old days, the paddler could turn around in the canoe, vacation homes in ruidoso new mexico but now the lakefront vacation homes ny canoe must be flipped around -- a challenge that often results in niagra falls vacation it vacation rentals at gooserocks beach flipping over.
Still, Bennis said, in an ever-changing vacation rentals bend oregon world, the Oakmont regatta is a simple recipe for community fun.
"It's just a good, fun weekend," he said. "Everybody gets together and has a good time."
Celanie Polanick can be reached at [email protected] or 724-226-4702.
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What:The final day vacation in mexico of washington dc vacation the Oakmont Yacht Club's 106th Regatta
When: Today, noon to 5 p.m.
Where: Oakmont Yacht Club, 11 Washington Ave., Oakmont.
Details: vacation packages to paradise island call the club at 412-828-9847.
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