2017 Paddle Challenge

2017 Paddle Challenge

COMPETITOR NOTES

- To complete this event you must be a competent swimmer and be able to perform a self-rescue or be wearing a PFD. All competitors under the age of 14 must wear a PFD regardless.

- Each paddler is responsible for ensuring their craft has sufficient buoyancy

- If you see a person capsized you have duty of care to make sure that person is ok. There will be a duress time taken into account post-race (please see Officials if necessary).

- Be aware of boating traffic, and stick to the right hand side of the river at all times.

- Be aware of fishing lines on the bank of the river.

- Canoeing WA has the right to disqualify or pull craft off the water.

- If you do require assistance from a safety craft please signal by raising your arm above your head and wait for a craft to arrive.

- If you do pull out from this event at any stage you need to advise us immediately. Please call the mobile number on the back of the meal voucher. Ideally you will inform the rescue boat closest to you as they circle.

- Any false starts will be given a 5-minute penalty. We do have a video camera at the start so if you are identified we will impose the penalty

- No wash riding powerboats, there will be spotters to make sure this doesn’t happen, and will write down numbers of guilty craft.

- If two boats are approaching each other, head on both boats turn right (starboard)

- All courses must start between marker and jetty

- Regardless of what course you are doing make sure you are hydrating before and during the event.

- The reason that entries close when they do, the volunteers need to know in advance numbers for catering, also it takes all day to make the categories up, organise the prizes, set-up web-scorer and get the briefing notes and the entry list out to the competitors, entries are open for a month at least before the closing date, so there is plenty of time to get your entries in. So in short there is a great deal of work to put an event on such as the Paddle Challenge.

18km Course

- Be aware that it is a mass start with close to 80 craft, so please seed yourself relevant to your ability as the water can be very messy for the first 50 or so metres.

- Start between the orange buoy and the edge of the jetty.

- If you are to be passed hold a predictable and consistent line.

- Paddle upstream to the second railway bridge just after Guildford Rd Bridge and turn in anti-clockwise direction around the two pillars on river left.

- Proceed downstream past Garratt Rd Bridge, down the main channel past Maylands boat yard.

- Turn left around the bottom of Ascot Waters Island, and paddle through the Ascot Waters canal back to the main channel, please be aware it can be very shallow and rocky close to the island.

- Paddle back underneath Garrett Road Bridge and finish between the two buoys, adjacent to the Jetty.

11km Course

- Paddle upstream to Ron Courtney Island/Ascot Kayak Club, turn anticlockwise around the Island

- Proceed downstream past Garratt Rd Bridge, down the main channel past Maylands boat yard.

- Make a left hand turn around both boating markers, before taking a left turn though the Ascot Waters canal back to the main channel

- Paddle back underneath Garrett Road Bridge and finish between the two buoys, adjacent to the Jetty.

6km

-Paddle upstream to Ron Courtney Island/Ascot Kayak Club turning left-hand (anti-clockwise) around the island

- Head downstream to Garratt Rd Bridge and make a clockwise turn around bridge pylons

- Proceed to start/finish line next to jetty.

Reminders

• As you may know there is not a large bank area at the finishing point. So can we all please assist each other to take the crafts further up the grass.
• Keep moving after passing between the two buoys at finish line to avoid congestion.

Registration Open07.00am

Registration Close07.45am

Briefing07.45am

Race Starts

Doubles and K4Grid 18.15am

18km Course Grid 28.17am

11Km Course Grid 38.20am

6km Course Grid 48.25am – Guppy’s and Junior’s

3.5km Course Grid 58.28am – Guppy’s

• PRESENTATIONS TO FOLLOW CONCLUSION OF THE RACE

• REMEMBER TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT AND DRINK WHICH IS INCLUDED IN YOUR ENTRY FEE UPON GIVING OF YOUR FOOD AND DRINK VOUCHER

• THE EMERGENCY CONTACT NUMBER IS ALSO ON THE CARD IF YOU SHOULD PULL OUT OF THE EVENT.