Calico Moon and Son 2020
This is a bit different than my usual write up. This plan started a few years back probably four years ago. Amber and I came back from the race and said there was an 11 year old who did the race. Our middle son Grady immediately said when I’m 11 I want to do the race. We asked him often and he never wavered he wanted to race so in 2019 he turned 11 and we rented a 3 man boat and planned to race. But the river stayed high and we pretty much never practiced due to our realization that the race probably wasn’t going to happen. We talked to our friend Joe Mann and asked to rent his 3 man that Amber and her river sisters Gina and Susan and raced in 2018. We got the boat and brought it home. We did some training and Joe ended up needing the boat back to have it refinished. It came back a few weeks later really slick and much improved. We did some more paddling and ran the freedom race. We felt really good in the boat with me in the bow running the rudder our 12yr old Grady in the middle an