Hi, it was a nice September weekend in Canada's ocean playground. The organizers of the record attempt in Bridgewater had weather as good as it can get this time of the year. However, they didn't reach their goal. Instead of the 800 kayaks and canoes they were aiming for, "only" 243 showed up. There were for sure more than 800 people on the water, but not in enough boats to beat the somewhat 650 boats record. If the organizers would have got closer to that number the whole thing would had ended up in chaos. Was looking more like a demolition derby in some moments. It took quite some time to raft all those boats up. The river current (lakes are better places for such games) and gusty wind pushed the boats around and towards the shore. Several attempts were necessary to get to the point were they started timing for a record of most boats floating as a handheld raft for the longest time. They got that one with 243 for 8 minutes (unofficial). However, the plan is to make this a annual event. With a bit more planing, a better strategy on the water, more and earlier promotion, and six weeks earlier in the season (to get all those bored tourists to participate) it could work next year, or the year after that. Ulli Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H 4H7 Nova Scotia, Canada Phone: INT 902 494 2673 Fax: INT 902 494 1685 Phone 2: 92 488 6796 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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