A group of Canadian women went to Hamilton Island this month after a year of preparation and came home with the Master's Women championship.  Check back for an article on the topic.  In the meantime have a gander at this 11 minute YouTube video.  Click Read More... for the video.

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Journalists often sit and create statistics for the armchair sports folks.  I am not exactly a journalist, neither am I an armchair paddler, but  I calculated some statistics anyway.  Like most statistics they compare apples to oranges and are not of much REAL value. The only imperative knowledge is how to go faster and that the fastest wins the race.

The Shell Va'a team that won the 2010 Molokai Hoe did so at an average speed of 8.8 mph, or 14.16 kph (for us metric folks.)

Some Numbers

Team Water Race MPH KPH

Shell Va'a     Kaiwi Channel     Molokai Hoe    8.8 mph    14.16 kph

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The popular local Bridges Race 2010 was held in the Gorge waterway at Victoria on Saturday, Oct 16. The short sprint race is very popular and draws paddlers from Bellingham, Vancouver, Nanaimo, Comox and Calgary, among others.

This year's sunshine and 15 degree C temperature were much better than last years rain and cold.

The results are available in the Download section of this web site, CLICK HERE.

Inny Outty Small Boat race

was held on Sunday and showed a great turnout. Many of the 'usual suspects' competed but there was a strong contingent from the Victoria Youth Paddling Club.  That was great to see so many new faces to paddling.  The race results are published CLICK HERE.

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