July SNATR results

2010-07-23

Last weekend, Jane and Bruce, Alan and Sebbi, and Karyn and Mark ran in the KWRC SNATR rally. Alan and Sebbi scored a very impressive 0.9 for the novice win, with Karyn and Mark doing well also. Jane and Bruce ran sans the Timewise (Sebbi was learning it) - Read More...

Black Bear!

2010-06-16

Apparently a black bear actually made an appearance to the MLRC CanJam Black Bear Rally June 12. We never encountered any bears, though. We did, however, see quite a number of other types wildlife on the sides of the roads, always in pairs, and often with - Read More...

Discovering Ontario

2010-06-06

On June 5, Jane and Bruce competed in the Discover Ontario Rally, round 5 of the ORRC series. Brooke was up to his old tricks, i.e. new tricks, in the instructions. Two of his instructions caught all three teams running the expert set of notes. One was to - Read More...

LHFR result

2010-05-30

Alan and Bruce were really starting to click at the Lanark Highland Stage Rally, but then the Rubber Ducky didn't want to - click, that is. Nearing the end of the third of five stages, the shifter jammed; Alan couldn't get it into any gear. We coasted to - Read More...

Events Update

2010-05-12

Two ORRC rallies now completed and Lanark Highlands Forest Rally is coming this weekend. Jane and Bruce competed in Spring Runoff, hosted by PMSC, and placed 1st Expert, then also ran (pardon the pun) in the KWRC Blossom rally this past weekend. They fin - Read More...

2010-04-13

Shannonville Stages Rally.Alan and Bruce competed in the SS at, where else, Shannonville on April 10. We came away with 8 very worn gravel tires, big grins, and plaques for our class win! Yah! (We won't talk about the fact that we were the only one in the - Read More...

2010-03-29

SilverHare update. We have all had a busy time since the last update after Targa. Alan and Carolyn Ryall and Bruce and Jane Leonard were Cars 000 at Tall Pines in November, while Chris and William Haid worked a radio point with Bruce Terris from NL. In - Read More...

Links

2009-10-02

videos www.youtube.com/user/silverharerally pictures http://picasaweb.google.ca/bjleonard17 - Read More...

Home

2009-09-26

We're home. We decided to push through, and we stayed in Riviere-du-Loup last night. We did just over 2000 km in two days. But we're home. We did 9500 km in total over the 21 days. We had a great time. thanks to (in no particular order): Alan and Caroly - Read More...

Back on the mainland (not really)

2009-09-24

September 24, 2009 (written on board). we're aboard. The Atlantic Vision is a much newer ship than the Caribou that we came across on. We were away on time, and it's raining and there's a bit of a roll. We're in the Habana Room, which is a quiet area, - Read More...

Gros Morne

2009-09-23

Tuesday and Wednesday we were in Gros Morne National Park. We had some time Tuesday afternoon after travelling from Charlottetown, NL, and we explored the south side of Bonne Bay - Woody Point, and Trout River. We had dinner at the Seaside Restaurant in T - Read More...

To my boss

2009-09-22

Dear Brian D and Rob K, I may be delayed from returning to work for a couple of days. I anticipate some difficulty getting Jane on the ferry on Thursday. She doesn't want to come home. sincerely, Bruce - Read More...

Leg 5

2009-09-21

First – I've put up a couple of videos – Fortune and New-Wes-Valley. http://www.youtube.com/user/silverharerally Friday was rainy; very rainy. Our first run after leaving Marystown was Boat Harbour, 24 km into the small village of Petit Fo - Read More...

Photos posted

2009-09-19

I've thrown some photos on the Picasa site. Two albums - our targa stuff and one for the Toy Shop. http://picasaweb.google.com/bjleonard17/ Videos later. They'll only be the shorter ones, because youtube has a 10 minute max. Plus not all of them are sui - Read More...

Finished!! finalized

2009-09-18

It's just after 8 pm NL time, and we're done, literally and figuratively. We finished the day with no incidents, and we think we were pretty clean. We took a 2 second penalty on the second stage, and the rest of the stages that were run we at least zeroed - Read More...

Would you like a little Garnish with that? prelim standings

2009-09-17

A beautiful day for driving – clear blue skies, cool temperatures – and still with the incredible scenery. We started at Little Bay East on a run to Harbour Mille. A bit of fast stuff, then a deviation through a village, and a then into a l - Read More...

Kittiwake Peninsula; Vernon's Toy Shop

2009-09-16

We took our first penalty today. Musgrave Harbour, stage 3-3, was an average speed of 89 km/h through this town. The road was new and smooth, rolling back and forth and over rises as we sped alongside the ocean. But some of the corners and crests were - Read More...

Moose stew; fresh mussels

2009-09-15

Still clean (no penalties). There are 8 teams now that are still clean. Tomorrow the time window drops to 10 seconds. Moose stew for lunch at Leading Tickles, and mussels at the factory at Bobby's Cove. Mmmm... The Gander stage was a blast. Just aweso - Read More...

Day 1 - St. John's to Gander

2009-09-14

First place – with 9 others. 10 of us are penalty free, with 4 acquiring between 1 and 19 seconds. An interesting day. 7 stages, 36 km, 462 total km including the transits. No jitters now – let's just do it. Argentia was run twice. A slow pac - Read More...

Prologue

2009-09-13

September 12 Taxi to the Remax, attend mandatory meeting. Bob Giannou spoke, the RCMP spoke, we reviewed signs, we received a blessing from the Faster Pastor, who may or may not get his Porsche together in time. Then it was out to the the ball field fo - Read More...

Registration day - anybody got a hacksaw?

2009-09-12

tired... and we haven't even done anything yet, or so it seems until we recap the day. Registration – no problem, got our decals, our freebies, our route books. Head back out immediately to hunt for a coin-op car wash, cuz the antenna won't go - Read More...

Here in St. John's

2009-09-11

We've arrived in St. John's, having had great weather all the way from Georgetown. We've seen hills, mountains, rocks, seas, cliffs, lakes, waterfalls, trees, rocks, lakes, and more rocks. We've seen 3300 km of road, from the TCH in Newfoundland (great - Read More...

The road to Targa

2009-09-09

We made it. Nine months in the planning, and we're actually here in Newfoundland. Jane and I are competing in the Grand Touring division of Targa Newfoundland next week and it's been an interesting journey to get to this point. First, thanks to our fami - Read More...