The first annual Fairport Aquatic Club outrigger race was held this past Saturday. Over 35 participants. It was quite a success. Hats off to the organizers of this extremely laid back event. 4' swells by the power plant, and watching Jonathon beat all the Oc-6 in Oc-1 was amazing. Great event hopefully it becomes a bay tradition.

Hopefully the organizers can post the official results soon

On dragonboat forum. Why? Email will do.

Everyone that competed there also races dragon boat, including members from Hanalei, G and G, and Big fish,Scotia...

I see. That's great.

We heard that some of the teams out of Frenchmans Bay were training in Outrigger Training Groups 4 times a week (singles and tandems) and only getting in the dragonboat once a week.

Would you relate that to the success that the teams on the bay had this year?

Interesting you mention G&G, Scotia and Hanalei, if memory serves me right isn't Burnsie an X-Pad paddler?

The main advantage to training in Outriggers is when you don't have half your team to practice in a dragon boat with you can still train.

A certain team trained outrigger all summer and trained dragon boat when they had enough bodies to do so...it worked well

So what was the placing of the racers and what club / backgound are they?

tell us. you're dying to.

Does anyone have the results? or can anyone post them please?

No Results just an informal get together to close off the year..... Look for many more of these group paddles next year..... lots of fun and who cares who wins.... just go for a hard paddle and enjoy the surfing.....

It was surfs up out there today. Must have been 8ft. Pretty cold right now. feel free to join us anytime. Jason and I are out there all the time. Toronto outrigger website should have the times if people are interested in their times from the weekend. Thanks all for coming and I think we will have more of those next year.

Were you wearing a PFD?You totally freak me out when you do this.LOL

I heard that Boog is out there training cuz he is worried about the west enders....hey if we can't win hockey...let's paddle

Waves were the biggest I have seen this year, wind from the east 6-8 feet waves. Amazing, sorry you missed it shro

I missed it too Budger but i want in next time. I am only going to train for OC-1 from now on. We like to surf to we want action!!

This ended up being a lot of fun with some great wave action out there. Next year I will try and spend more time paddling than swimming and actually wear my ankle leash so my boat does not float away into the lake . Thanks for the boat rescue boys!!!

Great time...thanks to everyone who made this possible from organizing to participating.

Regards,

DG

Burnsie,

A slight correction - the OC6 labelled as the Mississauga OC6 on the results actually had a faster time that Jonathan Hollins in his OC1 by two seconds, so he did not actually beat us - but I tell you it was damn frustrating staring at him in front of us the whole race (the OC1s and OC2s started ahead of the OC6s). It was a fantastic race, and I would encourage any dragonboaters to get out in small boats and have some fun in the "off season". I am a marathoner "by trade" but have been with Mac Hickox's dragonboat team the last year, and the most fun I have had this year was in that wild outrigger race last Saturday. It helped that I was in a boat with some of the best paddlers in Ontario (I felt like the proverbial sack of potatoes) - it was the start of a perfect paddling weekend -outrigger race Saturday, dragonboat practice Sunday, and a 2 hour practice in a marathon C2 with my son Monday - the best cross training for paddling one type of boat is paddling another type of boat - so keep on paddling until the water gets hard (and then go to Florida until the water gets soft!!!).

Hey Dro. Cano, I was at the finish taking times - Boog's time was 1:09:57 the OC-6 was 1:09:58 (1:10:58 minus the one minute delayed start for OC-6s)

Anon 1205 hours,

I was relying on the results posted on the Toronto Outrigger Club site, which look like official times, and give the OC6 time as 1:09:56, and Jonathan Hollins time as 1:09:58, however if these are not the official times I stand corrected. It really doesn't matter - Jonathan Hollins is an impressive paddler, and has my utmost respect. It was a great race to be in, and I would encourage more dragon boat paddlers to get out in the smaller boats.

Dr. Canoe.... shhhhhhhh let's keep your little secret to yourself..... although I must admit outrigger is a hell of a lot more fun then Dragon Boating and no politics, yet.....

no paddletics ever... just aloha.

The waves on Sunday were absolutely huge. 12 ft waves. Got scared. Unreal...

I was up north working on my cabin and had to cut 6 large trees that had blown down on our road so that I could get out.
The winds at 90+ Km's took out power for 150,000 people in Huntsville, Bracebridge.
We saw 8-10' at the mouth of the Niagara River during the lake race in 03 but the wind was nothing like Sunday.
Glad you lived to tell the tail.
Hope you had a leash on your boat.

The waves on Sunday were absolutely huge. 12 ft waves. Got scared. Unreal...


So did I.

Yes, I had a leash, I only made it out about 300 m past the pillars, and headed back in to go 0 c-2 instead. The fear is not tipping but having the boat breaking.

The waves are not very clean when the the wind is south west.

What a great sport