- Saint John NB June 30 -

In Celebration of National Canoe day

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1) Team composition and Classes of Boats

1. Class 1: Nominal 20 foot–  four man teams —  in canoes from 19 to 23 foot long.

1. Class 2: Nominal 24 foot – six man teams — in canoes from 23′ 3″ to 26 feet long

1. Class 3:  Any length for the final sprint— any canoe that can safely hold ten man teams.

Notes

• This closing sprint is meant integrate the 4 and 6 man teams into 10 man teams for a 300 m dragon boat style sprint in the war canoes… for fun.
• The team captain may make two substitutions during the event.
• The captain is responsible to ensure that that all team members including up to 2 substitutes  are identified in writing to the race coordinator, and that life jackets are worn by everyone.

2) Disciplines

Four different paddling communities  are represented here. Each canoe is expected to attempt everything.

A. Precision Paddling ( canoe tripping / Canadian Traditional)

1. Power Paddling (marathon style/USCA modern) ,
2. Poling  (northern NB  style)  –may become a demo

D. final short Sprint (Dragon-boat style)

Prize: Best boat overall with sections A/B/C  weighted 55%, 35%, and 10% in the final team scores.

3) Section A : Precision paddling

The course of buoys will require some set of the following specific maneuvers to be executed cleanly but quickly.

• Fast clean starts: at least one fast start leading to a  short clean run through a string of  slightly staggered buoys.
• Pivots: about canoe center
• Pirouettes: about one canoe end (the  end touching a buoy)
• side slip perpendicular to a dock
• running side slip of half the canoe length
• reverse paddle (and running side slip?)
• Stops: Powerful clean stopping with minimal yaw
• Power turn when canoe is  stopped or  at very low speed, tight quarters, any technique; canoe must avoid buoys.
• Docking: 45 degree turn and stop. ( Don’t touch dock)
• Buoy turns whilst moving at moderate speed  – 45 degree and 90 degree — these are not high speed turns — but the boat should make the turn without significant slowing– and be able to stop abruptly when the turn is complete ! (180 degree turns reserved for high speed marathon style paddling)

NOTES

• Judging criteria: Clean and fast, as in slalom, but penalties for touching a buoy will be severe (20 seconds)   and form must be good.
• Form requirements will be specified at race time: A Paddle Canada  Instructor will judge style.

4) Section B: Power paddling

The course is three  laps around the lake ( approx 10 minutes  per lap) with several 45 degree and 90 degree turns ( and one  near 180) at full speed.

DETAILS

• buoys may be taken marathon style ( ie carved turns at speed — lean away from the buoy),
• buoys may be hit and driven underwater
• course will timed and with a penalty assigned if boats touch each other. Missed buoys (ie they appear on the wrong side of the canoe) have to be redone !
• heats of approximately four boats
• sit-n-switch technique will be essential! Have the extra paddles in the boat or near at hand on shore.

5) Section C: Poling

This consists of one half-lap around the shallow side of  lake within one pole length (approx) from shore, with two buoy turns.

• one person standing in 4-man teams, two persons standing in 6-man teams:
• may go up and back the shallow side if we can get the swimming area removed.
• one person in the canoe may assist with a paddle when the water is deep.
• timed event: Penalty for missed buoys. (Buoys can be hit.)

5) Section D: Dragon Boat  style Sprint – 10 man teams — dragon boat style

• 300 or 400 meter full-out sprint — full crews (join the 4 and 6 man crews, or pick up spares)
• Meant to appeal to dragon boat teams.
• fun event- not counted in the team standings this year ( but yields significant bragging rights of a team of erstwhile dragon boaters gets beaten!).

Saint John NB June 30 – Hosted by the Fundy Paddlers Club

In Celebration of National Canoe day

Minimum Team sizes are 4 person and 6 person teams

(You can double-seat folk if you wish but this will slow your canoe in the manoeuvres)

Hi paddlers,

The local club ( the Fundy Paddlers)  has decided to host a Big Canoe Tournament,  to celebrate National Canoe Day ( which is, unbelievably, on a Tuesday, June 26):  So…  on Saturday June 30 we are inviting all clubs , teams, groups, outdoor adventure businesses  to come show their stuff in  ”Big Canoes” at Lily Lake, right in front of Lily’s Cafe with the finest coffee around.  If you cannot get access to a big canoe we may have a spare standing by.

There will be two recreational-competition classes:  (1) nominal-20 footer (19 to 23 feet) with at least 4 paddlers, and (2) nominal-24 footers (23.1 to 26 foot and up ) with at least 6 paddlers – and the course will cover skill elements from four paddling disciplines that normally hardly talk to each other.

• The speed elements will be short and sweet — but fun!
• The manoeuvres will be fun… but perhaps not so easy.
• We may delete the poling component in favour of a demo by a woman form the Tobique, unless folk want it in.
• The intent is — neither marathoners nor finesse paddlers (trippers) will have a big advantage. This will be frustrating to both… and immense fun.

Check the attachment (the draft scope of the Tournament on Lily Lake) and pass it on to anyone who might be interested. It’s a great introduction to team paddling in real boats!   Novices probably should get some basic instruction in canoe control from CKNB instructors ( Tim Humes, Kevin Silliker, Rob Lemmon, Gig Kierstead)… or an experienced war canoe paddler…  and the finesse paddlers should get some introduction to race style from one of the many old grey-haired ex-marathoners around. They are a friendly bunch.

Requests came in immediately for an all-woman class and a seniors class: Sorry, time will be too tight the first year at least. But the rule will no doubt be that 50%  or more of the paddlers must be women, and as for seniors — well, they need not worry. It is the canoe full of grey-hairs that has been cleaning up at the dragon boat festival.

if you wish to volunteer to help, the chair of the FPC’s National Canoe Committee  is Nancy Clifford (nancy.clifford@nb.sympatico.ca): Email her.

Thanks,

Evan Young

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It’s that time of year again for the early bird registration for the 2012 Atlantic Paddling Symposium. This year the early bird registration prizes are Esquif L’edge Solo white water canoe, Kokatat Drysuit, $250 NRS Prize pack, $300 Snap Dragon Prize pack, and a Werner Sea Kayak paddle valued at $300. There is only one more month of the early bird registration, so act quickly to get a chance to win one of these amazing prizes!

To register online:

http://www.atlanticpaddlesymposium.com/Atlantic_Paddle_Symposium/Registration.html

For more Information:

http://www.atlanticpaddlesymposium.com/Atlantic_Paddle_Symposium/Home.html

Miramichi River 2011

Latest News 10 September, 2011

The Canadian Canoe Foundation (CCF) in collaboration with Canoe and Kayak New Brunswick (CKNB) , the Miramichi River Environment Assessment Committee (MREAC), the Miramichi Salmon Conservation Centre (MSCC) and Arpin Canoe Restigouche successfully ran a 7 day canoe trip learning adventure for 10 local (Miramichi) youth down the Southwest Miramichi River.

The objectives of the project were to 1) educate the communities of the Miramichi Watershed about the threats facing the Atlantic salmon population (and the environmental health of the Miramichi River Watershed), 2) send 10 local youth on a canoe trip learning adventure, 3) conduct a clean-up of garbage at campsites and access points along the river, 4) raise media/public awareness of the MREAC and MSCC conservation campaigns.

Environmental education initiatives during the project included visits to the Woodman’s Museum near Boiestown, Salmon Museum in Doaktown, a visit to the Salmon Hatchery on the Northwest Miramichi (MSCC) and a participatory presentation by MREAC. The 10 lucky youth were provided an environmental education curriculum booklet at the start of the trip which describes the ecology and geography of the Miramichi River Watershed. Structured discussions took place daily, providing the 10 youth participants with an ‘on the water’ education regarding the environmental status of their Watershed and the concrete steps they can take to promote better water resource management in their communities.

In addition, the youth were exposed to the heritage of the Miramichi river through visits to Beaubear Island Interpretive Centre and a paddling (national heritage site) visit to Beaubear Island via 26′ voyageur canoe, “Sipu”. The last scheduled event was a visit to Metepeniagiag Heritage Site on the Little Southwest Miramichi. Metepeniagiag First Nations

Canoe Kayak NB (CKNB) has been instrumental in having this canoe adventure realized for both the province & the Miramichi area. Canoe Kayak NB assisted with a 1/2 day canoe clinic at the beginning of the adventure. One of the guides was Andre Roy, a CKNB instructor. CKNB is now playing a lead role for expansion of this model to a national level.

After the canoe trip, our 10 River Ambassadors will be making presentations to their schools/community groups and write articles for local newspapers, describing their experiences and newly acquired knowledge about the importance of protecting their Watershed and the Atlantic salmon populations. An important message that will be stressed in these presentations/articles will be that youth and their families have an important role to play in protecting their local waterways.

The 10 lucky applicants, in order to win a spot on this exciting environmental education adventure, had to:

- reside in the Miramichi River Watershed; and
- be enrolled in grade seven or eight as of June 2011.

Note: All canoe trip costs were covered. The 10 lucky participants only needed to cover travel costs to the start and end points of the canoe trip.

Funding for the Miramichi River 2011 canoe trip learning adventure was generously provided by the Harrison McCain Foundation, the RBC Blue Water Project® and Arpin Canoe Restigouche.

Note: for 2012
CKNB is already planning with the Canadian Canoe Foundation for a youth adventure canoe trip on the St. Croix watershed. Please look forward to future notices re this.

On Saturday, May 21st, 2011 the First Annual ‘Paddle for Parts’ at Meehan’s Cove Beach, and thanks to your participation the event was a huge success! 16 paddlers embarked on their kayak excursion with Go Fundy Events & River Bay Adventure guides and we raised $2095 for the Canadian Liver Foundation with this event.

An event like this could not be so successful without the participation and support from the local community. The paddlers brought an amazing level of enthusiasm and excitement to the day and look out for us next year with the 2nd Annual ‘Paddle for Parts’ to be an even bigger and better adventure!

Please view photos from Saturday at http://macbrett.zenfolio.com/p349097098 If your interested in participating in next years event or volunteering please contact me Kristen Wheaton at 214-3511 or saintjohnchapter@liver.ca

The fourth annual Atlantic Paddling Symposium, held in Terra Nova, NL, was a great success. At this year’s event there were 28 big name coaches and 120 participants, making this the largest paddling symposium ever to be held in Atlantic Canada. The highlights of this year’s symposium included sessions for each paddling discipline, (canoe, sea kayak, and white water):

• Brenna Kelly and Mike Smith holding white water kayak skills sessions and leading a large group of paddlers down the Terra Nova River;
• Mark Scriver coaching white water canoe sessions;
• Maligiaq Padilla leading amazing Greenland paddling and rolling sessions;
• Christopher Lockyer holding “Fear to Fun” rock hopping sessions along with sea kayak surfing
• Corey Locke holding “Making a Dynamic Duo” canoe session;
• Rob Lemmon leading a Swift Water Rescue session, white water canoe with Mark Scriver, wind management session with Rick Wise, and white water kayaking session;
• Kevin Silliker leading canoe poling sessions with the aid of Tim Humes, also going on to hold a canoe poling course following the symposium;
• Richard Alexander and Graham Ketcheson coaching an Advanced Rescue session;
• Birgit Kuhle and Susan Vokey leading a “Paddle Like a Girl” session for females in the kayaking world;
• Kevin Callan presenting on tips and tricks to canoe tripping;
• Maligiaq Padilla giving a presentation on Greenland paddling.

The volunteers and coaches included Matthew Nelson, Craig Burden, Alan Stanley, Birgit Kuhle, Blair Doyle, Brenna Kelly, Craig Moores, Corey Locke, David Johnston, Graham Ketcheson, Jim Price, Kevin Callan, Kevin Redmond, Kevin Silliker, Tim White, Mike Smith, Mark Scriver, Monica Lynns, Richard Alexander, Rick Wise, Rob Lemmon, Susan Vokey, Amanda Harrington, Melissa Hickey, Steve Noel, and David Saunders.
Pictures of the event can be found at
http://www.atlanticpaddlesymposium.com/Atlantic_Paddle_Symposium/Gallery/Gallery.html

Sponsors included Paddle Canada, Kayak Newfoundland and Labrador, Canoe Kayak Nova Scotia, Canoe Kayak New Brunswick, Thumblehome recreational canoe club and Simply for Life. For a full list of sponsors please visit
http://atlanticpaddlesymposium.com/Atlantic_Paddle_Symposium/Sponsors.html

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Although Paddle Canada’s Program of Instruction is a National Program, if you are planning to conduct a course in another province or territory, it is your responsibility to obtain the permission of, and to satisfy the membership requirements of, that Paddle Canada Federated Member (where one exists).

Send us an email using the Contact Us form to make a request.

CALGARY, March 17 /CNW/ – The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today announced important changes to Transport Canada’s small vessel registration requirements.

Owners of human-powered vessels, such as canoes, kayaks and small sailing vessels, as well as small vessels with motors less than 7.5 kilowatts (10 horsepower) will not have to register their craft with Transport Canada.

“We do not believe Canadian boaters should face onerous regulations to go canoeing and kayaking, which is why registration requirements for all human-powered vessels, small sailing vessels and small motorized vessels will not be required,” said Minister Strahl.

This registration will continue to be required for commercial river rafts, government vessels and for any vessels where registration is necessary for safety reasons.

For those vessels that still must be registered, Transport Canada is also introducing a new simplified process. For a vessel or a fleet of vessels, Transport Canada will now:

• accept a single application form; and
• charge a $50 fee, valid for five years.

Owners registering a fleet of human-powered vessels must also provide:

• the number, length or approximate length, and type of vessels in the fleet, including the Hull Identification Number (HIN) if available.

Transport Canada must be informed:

• of a change in ownership of a vessel or fleet; and
• if the vessel or fleet has been disbanded.

“What doesn’t change are the safety requirements. Small vessels, such as canoes and kayaks, their owners and users must continue to adhere to all safety requirements under the Canada Shipping Act.” added Minister Strahl.

A backgrounder with further information about registration and licensing is attached.

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REGISTRATION VS. LICENSING

The Canadian Register of Vessels is designed for commercial vessels. A vessel registered in the Canadian Register of Vessels is a legal entity similar to a corporation. It has Canadian “nationality” and when overseas is part of Canada and subject to Canadian laws.

The Small Vessel Register is part of the Canadian Register of Vessels, which is set aside for small domestic vessels involved in commercial activities. The Small Vessel Register provides for a similar registration process at a lower cost.

The Pleasure Craft Licensing system is designed for pleasure craft only. It provides basic identification for law enforcement, and search and rescue purposes.

Restigouche, located northern New Brunswick, is looking for your support in keeping its wild nature free of logging and mining.  Currently Restigouche is facing an expiry date in the year of 2015.  Last fall New Brunswick had elected a new government and if we speak out now, we may have the opportunity to save this rural area from being destroyed. Restigouche needs your help!

To voice your opinion please visit the site below:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2463/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5922

The CKNB AGM was held on Saturday, November 27,
Location: Moncton at the Rotary Building in Centennial Park.

Elections were held for the following executive positions (two year appointments except where noted below) are :
- President
- Registrar/Treasurer (one year appointment this time)
- Communications Director
- Secretary
- Technical Director
Please see the 2011 executive on the website, “about Us”.
As usual the agenda covered many topics including further ratification of the CKNB constitution. There were guests from the Department of Tourism & Parks as well as the Community College, Moncton Campus as a result of CKNB partnering on specific projects.

Three long term members were recognized via the CKNB Honour Role as a result of their numerous contributions to paddling in New Brunswick:
Hector Roach
Bob Kennah
Owen Fraser

Note:
The 2011 CKNB AGM is scheduled for the same site on 26 November 2011. CKNB extends invitations now and welcomes member participation in the goal to have the best provincial program in Canada.

Please help shape any of the CKNB projects as committee members and/or Chairs. We need active Committees !
CKNB is a better organization for your participation.