Monday, April 18, 2005

Fishing trip April 17

It's 5:00 when the alarm goes off, luckily I went to bed at around 11:00 the night before.
At 5:30 we leave Savaneta, me and Roli in his fishing boat 'Bernat'. The sea doesn't look as rough as the last time but when we get to 'Indianskop' near the refinery it gets pretty wild, and gets even rougher around the point called 'cabes'.
We fish again with the lead lines 'rosario' and another floating line with a 'duck'. I get 2 strikes which eat up half of the maulo bait and Roli is the first one getting a 'hafcor' (tuna), After that he brings in a small pikuda (barracuda), and I also get my first picuda followed by a second smaller one.
After this I do not get any strikes and Roli hooks a wowo di bollo (large eyed fish), after this we slowly drift back to Savaneta and near Indianskop a very large fish takes the floating line and it took some effort to bring in this 26 kilo Mulato (59 pound wahoo) into the boat, it easily took the width of the boat.
After this we drifted further down towards Savaneta and came in to tie up in front of Roli's house.
After cleaning and cutting the fish, and refreshing the throath with some cold Balashi's we stayed around the Zeerovers bar for some talking and drinking, and bragging about the nice catch on this trip.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Referee Competition April 9&10

This weekend took place the 2nd qualifying competition for the CCCAN championships in August. Saturday 6p.m. until 9:00 and Sunday 9:10 to 11:00 a.m.
It was a pretty smooth event that went very quickly but with a lot of disqualifications.
We will need to make a booklet with Fina rules because I have noticed some officials misinterpreting calls because of not knowing the rules, although all officials have received the training material not all are using it. If we make a booklet size rule book it will be easier for them to carry around at the meets.
Next event will be on May 13 to 15 which will the Aruban Championships.
I will have a workshop for new Timers for this event which will take place on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12.
More details to come.
Reminders: Lap counters, bells, Turf sheets need to be requested for this event.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Let's start with the Finish

Let's start with the Finish or is it the beginning of the end?
I have given myself 15 days (12 workdays) to finish a task, which needs to be ready by 22nd of April.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Referee Carifta 2005, Curacao Mar 31-Apr 3

Curacao hosted the Carifta championships this year and it was held from March 31 to April 3.
2 officials from Aruba were present including myself and Mayens Tromp.
It was a very succesfull event for the Aruban officials since I refereed the first 3 days and while Mayens did Clerck of course for 3 and a half days.
There were a lot of problems in the organization part of the event which did cause for some frustration, especially on the awards ceremonies on the first day. By the second day this was resolved but still finished late because the awards for the relay events were handed out.