2008 Delaware Waterfowl Festival

Dover DE - What a great event set in the middle of a beautiful farm. Too bad there was so much DUST - we'll be finding it in the cars and stuff and cleaning that out for weeks! The BBQ food was great and it was nice to get to know a lot of the new Delmarva members along with celebrating Thunder's 1st Place Top Gun win and Eric & Henry's first Top Gun grab of 6' toward his title. As the night progressed, the tales told by Tim grew taller and taller and more outrageous....

Our Youth Handler Taylor with Dexter and her dad Anthony with Noodles joined us on Saturday for some fun. Noodles is getting the hang of it - he jumped 9' 3" in his second event but couldn't hang around to compete in the Novice Finals.

After intense study of event pictures, Don Bara figured out why Walker missed the Novice Finals by just 3 inches - instead of running and jumping Walker curls his toes on the end of the dock and jumps straight out like an arrow. Chewie takes the opposite approach and leaves 5 feet early pushing off with only one back leg.

Mari Lynn & Pheobe joined the fun on Saturday for a Big Air wave and Speed Retrieve where they finished in 8th Place. Tim and Eric battled it out between their very own dogs. Kori took 7th Place with a 7.19 only to be beaten by Henry by only .02 seconds with his 7.17 6th Place. Jasper and Bella fought to the end and with only one second difference Jasper edged out Bella for 2nd Place with a 6.41 compared to her 6.42.

Congratulations also to our finalists:

4th Place Pro - Tim Kline & Bella
9th Place Pro - Eric Beauvais & Henry
11th Place Pro - Sharon Rodgers & Thunder

4th Place Senior - Tim Kline & Jasper

1st Place Junior - Eric Beauvais & Kori

We had a great time at the event and hope to see everyone soon. For Club Stats click here and for Complete Event Results here.

View of the Farm	Tim Kline & Bella - 23' 10" 4th Place - Pro Finals	Sharon Rodgers & Thunder - 22' 1" 11th Place - Pro Finals
Eric Beauvais & Henry - 20' 10" 9th Place - Pro Finals	Tim Kline & Japser - 18' 10" 4th Place - Senior Finals	Mari Lynn Dare & Pheobe - 16' 5"
Don Walker & Chewie - 15' 8"	Eric Beauvais & Kori - 14' 11" 1st Place - Junior Finals	Taylor Casalena & Dexter - 13' 3"
Anthony Casalena & Noodles - 9' 3"	Don Bara & Walker - 7' 10"	Sharon Rodgers & Thunder - 6' 8" 1st Place - Top Gun EV
Tim Kline & Jasper - 6' 4" 3rd Place - Top Gun EV	Eric Beauvais & Henry - 6' 5th Place - Top Gun EV	Tim Kline & Bella - 6' 6th Place - Top Gun EV