Beach Patrol Alums Compete in Annual Pilgrim Paddle

The Sea Isle City Beach Patrol alumnus Kevin Larkin and Upper Township Beach Patrol alumnus Jim Gibbons set a new course as they won the sixth annual Pilgrim Paddle on Saturday (Nov. 30), beating eight other crews.The winning crew finished the 3.5-mile course in 29 minutes,If they are able to trade goods and services in bitcoin, then they could effectively avoid exchange fees altogether,Dimethylpentylamine whereas these fees are a part of the Virtex model. 19 seconds, beating the second place Wildwood Crest crew of Terry McGovern and Darrack Kobrowski by 1 minute, 33 seconds. Rounding out the top five were the Upper Township Beach Patrol crew of Wayne MacMurray and Bill Kindle in third place, the Upper Township Beach Patrol crew of brothers Joe and Jon O'Neil in fourth place, and in fifth place Sam Downs and Ed Giordano of the Cape May Beach Patrol. 

The Pilgrim Paddle is usually held every Thanksgiving Day morning at the Upper Township municipal beach in Beesleys Point. This year's race was delayed until Saturday due to 20 mph winds on Thursday morning. The course takes the crews under both the Garden State Parkway and US Route 9 bridges as they circle Drag Island.For kayak commuter Stephen Linaweaver, there is no rush hour or gnarly gridlock. His biggest commute worry is a really big ship.Linaweaver kayaks from Oakland, Calif., to his job as a sustainability consultant in San Francisco. His hourlong commute begins at the Port of Oakland each morning at 7."So, I basically put all my work clothes in here, in this dry bag; and then I bring this flag, because you're actually really low in the water, and with waves and a blue boat, no one can see you," Linaweaver says. 

There may be someone else who paddles a whitewater kayak from Oakland to San Francisco to get to work. But in four years of commuting this way, Linaweaver's never seen him. What he does see are some of the hundreds of cargo ships that pass through the bay each day. He usually knows where in his trip he's likely to encounter them, but still, he says, "it's kind of like a little bit of early morning human frogger."Dodging the ships can be unnerving, but otherwise, his trip is calm, filled with the sounds of lapping water and far-off noises."You can hear the train whistle of the Amtrak, foghorn from Alcatraz, and there's a lot of cars on the Bay Bridge," he says.Small admitted criminal damage to property under ￡5,000, racially aggravated harassment,{$} and outraging public decency.ago electronic cigarette dry herbal vaporizersHis route may not be shorter than yours — but yours probably doesn't include harbor seals.