{"id":1049,"date":"2017-09-02T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2017-09-02T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T22:36:15","slug":"tracking-tracy-lum-in-outrigger-canoe-race-2500-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Tracy Lum in Outrigger Canoe Race 2,500 Miles Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re home bound in Claremont, hunkered down in the 105 degree heat today tracking our daughter-in-law Tracy Lum as she and her crew from the Newport Outrigger Canoe Club race in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qlcanoerace.com\/ql-race-history.asp%0A\">Queen Lili\u2019uokalani race<\/a> between Kailua and Honaunau off the Kona coast of Hawaii\u2019s Big Island. It continues over four days and is billed as the world\u2019s largest long distance canoe race.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-start.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1050\" alt=\"Race start\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-start-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-start-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-start.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m wowed by Tracy\u2019s stamina, and that of the other racers. \u00a0I don\u2019t know what the ocean conditions are today, but on any morning paddling 18 miles at sea is no small deal. \u00a0And I\u2019m also a bit impressed with the technology that allows us to sit in air-conditioning and track their progress. \u00a0Each of the boats has a geo-positioning device that works in a system developed by a French company, <a href=\"https:\/\/motion.dotvision.com\/\">DotVision Motion<\/a>. \u00a0I can track Tracy\u2019s boat\u2014moving up, falling back, moving up\u2026pass out those power drinks\u2014and text our son, Charles, as he rides toward the finish line to meet his wife. \u00a0(Screenshot below, along with race beginning and ending photos courtesy of CAK.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Tracy-Finish-Screen-Shot-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1052\" alt=\"Tracy Finish Screen Shot\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Tracy-Finish-Screen-Shot--300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Tracy-Finish-Screen-Shot--300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Tracy-Finish-Screen-Shot-.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, Charles is phoning in pictures.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Technology is a mixed blessing. \u00a0But today air conditioning and GPS technology plus the Internet are allowing us to experience a boat race 2,500 miles away.<a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-end.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1051\" alt=\"Race end\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-end.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-end.jpg 561w, http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Race-end-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re home bound in Claremont, hunkered down in the 105 degree heat today tracking our daughter-in-law Tracy Lum as she and her crew from the Newport Outrigger Canoe Club race in the Queen Lili\u2019uokalani race between Kailua and Honaunau off the Kona coast of Hawaii\u2019s Big Island. It continues over four days and is billed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}