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Wilder’s rough start
Scattered rain before sunny holiday C10
Team loses two of first three tourney games B1
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Dogs identified as Anatolian shepherds or kangals lived under a shed or cabin before being moved to safer facilities.
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Team Sistership makes its way toward the Race to Alaska finish line in Ketchikan.
Sailing teams make their way to Alaska First place gets $10K, basks in satisfying win BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
KETCHIKAN — The team that won second place in the Race to Alaska had claimed its steak knives and nine others had reached the finish line by Saturday afternoon. First-place winner Team Mad Dog Racing crossed the finish
line at Ketchikan, Alaska, at 7:30 a.m. Thursday with a time of three days, 20 hours and 13 minutes, winning the $10,000 prize. Team Skiff Foundation Jungle Kitty came in second at 11:59 p.m. Thursday and earned a set of eight steak knives. Since there were nine crew members, one did not get his own knife, said Jake Beattie, executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center, which sponsored the race. Ten boats had reached the Race to Alaska finish line by Saturday afternoon. Twenty-two boats were still in the 750-mile
race that began in Port Townsend. Jared Scott, Race to Alaska communications manager, expected another three teams to cross the finish line today. The atmosphere at the finish line was “more collegial than competitive,” Beattie said. “This is like the fantasy league for sailing,” he said. “The participants represent some of the best sailors on the West Coast.” The Mad Dog Racing team made better time than the winner of last year’s race, the inaugural event. TURN
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Investigation continues in animal case Deputies seize chickens, goats, dogs in Gardiner BY MARK SWANSON PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
GARDINER — The investigation report on an alleged puppy mill will go to the Jefferson County prosecuting attorney Tuesday after 41 animals — 17 of them dogs — were seized. Acting on a tip, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies seized seven puppies, 10 adult dogs and 24 goats and chickens from a property in the 276000 block of U.S. Highway 101 on Thursday, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release issued Friday. Capt. Ben Stamper of the
Sheriff’s Office said it was “obvious the entire property was being used to farm puppies.”
Owner not present The owner, who has not been identified, was not present when the deputies arrived with the warrant, Stamper said. Paul Becker, president of the Jefferson County Humane Society, which is housing many of the dogs, identified the dogs as being rare in the U.S. They are known as Anatolian shepherds, or kangals. TURN
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Storms end PA kayaker’s Atlantic odyssey Icelandic coast guard summoned BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
NORTH ATLANTIC — Chris Duff, an adventurer from Port Angeles attempting to row from Iceland to Greenland, was forced to abandon his efforts Saturday because of rough seas, said his wife, Lisa Markli. He was not injured, although he was seasick, she said. Markli said she spoke to Duff via satellite phone at about 4 a.m. Saturday morning Pacific Standard Time, and learned he had contacted Icelandic Search and Rescue to request a rendezvous and pick-up.
The rescue ship had not reached him as of about 5 p.m. PST, Markli said. The last time Markli had spoken to Duff, “he was doing very well,” she said. “He was really focused [and] got all his gear organized for the pickup.
Dramatic conditions “He described the conditions as quite dramatic,” Markli added. “There is a lot of big wave action and the wind is coming from the north and pushing him out of his planned trajectory.” The storm was projected to
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land,” she said. “That is why he decided to call for the rescue” at about 3 a.m. PST, she said. Duff embarked on his journey on Thursday, and expected to make landfill in Greenland in about two to three weeks, Markli said.
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increase in strength throughout the day, she said. “He knew that the conditions were worsening, because of a weather report,” she said. “He had called for the weather report, and the conditions he was in . . . were such that he could not run across the wind, meaning he couldn’t run perpendicular to the waves because the waves were to big and would have knocked him over and capsized the boat.” All Duff could do was “put out a sea anchor, which is a device that holds him relatively in one place, instead of letting the wind just push” the boat. “But still, even with that out, he was getting pushed to far south and would have missed Green-
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