Canoe Marathon Program

The canoe championship course – Click to enlarge

Judging by the number of people crowded into the pub at Joe Fish, Cape St Francis Resort yesterday evening, this event has already brought huge benefit to our community. With another registration day at the resort today, even more competitors, their families and supporters are due to arrive.

Some readers have been asking what time the championships start so below is a schedule of events supplied by the organising committee of the SA Marathon Champs.  Faced with a set of purple blocks on windguru for this weekend some changes have been made to the SA Marathon Program.

The main part of the course in the marina is quite well protected from the wind but the portage has been moved from the East Bank of the Ski Canal, where it would have been completely exposed to the Westerly, to the west bank of the channel where it will be more protected but this results in a few challenges with the tides, the portage is submerged at high tide, leaving a 6 hour window each day to get all the portages done in all classes.

So there have been changes to some start times, move the Guppys to first up on Saturday as they don’t portage(and this is likely to be the calmest part of the day), and start the Junior K2’s  in the same general start group as the Master K1’s

Below is the revised basic program.  The final groupings will be locked down after entries close and we know final numbers in each category, but the basic starting times for the blocks of races is now fixed. St Francis will endeavour to keep readers up to date where necessary.

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