The Day of the Longboat at Jericho beach was ran last weekend.
For those not familiar with this event, it's part of the UBC intramural games, but they also have divisions for community teams. It consists of a 2km obstacle course in a 10 person canoe.
The Fresh "kids" (as some of you call us) and some friends/family of the team fielded two teams to the longboat event; team Wet Noodle (I'll let you guess who steered for that team and why they're called that..
) and team "Oh Please God, Not Last!" (OPGNL).
Both team managed to make the final heat and raced together. Team OPGNL used a 6/16 start to pull ahead from the start, avoiding collisions into the first turn and holding their lead throughout the long 2km course to finish first in the community corec division with a time of 8:47. Team Wet Noodle came in a respected 4th with a time of 9:59. The fastest time of the day was a 8:07 by the false creek (FCRCC?) team in the competitive division.
Congratulations to all racers...it was a fun race that adds a bit of variety to the straight line racing of dragon boats.
A capsizing was witnessed...but it was within a few meters of shore.
