The 2020 Western Canada Marathon Canoe and Kayak Championships will be held Saturday, July 24^th and Sunday, July 25^th on the South Thompson River at Kamloops.  There are fun events as well as grit your teeth racing and there is fun promised for all.  Saturday's races are open to Marathon, C1, K1,K2, Sea Kayaks (singles or doubles), surfskis, OC1 & OC2 and there is even room for paddle boards. Sunday's races are open to Marathon and C2 and are up and down stream races.

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Rambo is at it again. Any of you who regularly visit this site, or frequent other Outrigger Paddling web sites know who Rambo is. He has done a professional video of the Hamilton Cup 2010 held at the famous Hamilton Island, Australia. This 45 minute video is his best production so far and rumour has it, DVD's of this video will be available for sale at some point.  To see other videos like this visit Ocean Sports Media on Rambo's web site at http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com.

I am not sure if there was ever a race so aptly named as this weekend's 17 km small boat race "Trial by Water" sponsored by Ocean River Paddling Sports of Victoria. The race is often a challenging race involving more strategy than one might imagine in such a short run. The race day can look calm and peaceful, however the tide tables and local knowledge will give clues to different strategies that make the race easy or frustrating. The women' race started at 9:30 and went off without a hitch. The men's race, however started at 11:00pm and was more interesting...

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Wow, what a difference a year makes!  The VI Va'a women have something to be proud of.  Dedication to training, working as a crew on technique and blend has paid off in spades.  Last year the women's team was was placing a substantial distance behind the top False Creek women's team...more than 8 minutes!  This year, under cloudy skies and only a hope of summer on the horizon, we were about a minute and a half off the top team and were in a true race to the finish line with the other team hedging out a mere 10 seconds ahead of us.  This was the first race where I felt as though we truly "raced" the whole race.

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Further in the war over the proposed floating trailer park installation in the Victoria Harbour, an application for Judicial Review of the decisions has been filed in Federal Court of Canada. Applicants, the Dogwood Initiative and Tim Houlihan, claim the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities has erred in law and in jurisdiction by granting Federal approval for the project to proceed. The Minister of the Fisheries and Oceans and Community Marine Concepts, Inc are also named in the request for Judicial Review.

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