Author: Graeme Galves

CORA recognized that there were many individuals who had made “Significant and Exemplary Contributions” to Canadian outrigger canoeing, but their stories had never been captured, and they had never been formally recognized. CORA spent January-July 2022 tracking down this history, and fact-checking as best as possible the exploits of those individuals who founded CORA, who founded / nurtured CORA clubs, who inaugurated / perpetuated races, who excelled at IVF / Molokai / Catalina / Queen Liliuokalani events, and who designed / built / imported / distributed canoes to grow the sport.

As of the August 2022 CORA Board Meeting there were 6 individuals inducted into the Canadian Outrigger Hall Of Fame for 2022.

Comox Valley Canoe Racing Club (CVCRC) has graciously offered to have an awards ceremony at the Comox CORA Cup Championship Iron event on the September 10/11 weekend to recognize these individuals.

CORA wishes to congratulate the 6 Canadian Outrigger Hall Of Fame 2022 Inductees:

• Andrea Dillon
• Rosemary Henry
• Kamini Jain
• Wendy Rae-Perkins
• Don Mulhall
• Grace Morissette

You can visit the CORA website and view the “virtual Hall Of Fame” that has the names / headshots of the 6 individuals inducted this year and links to a 3-page PDF that has their contributions in 2-pages and a 1-page set of references on every online article that we could find where they were mentioned.

CORA recently adopted new criteria for the CORA Travel Grant that take effect for CORA Sanctioned Events held after July 1st, 2022:

• Mileage reimbursement has been increased from a rate of $0.50 to a rate of $0.60 per kilometre traveled.
• Reimbursement for travel has been increased from a maximum of $650 to a maximum of $700 per application (combined limit for mileage reimbursement and ferry expenses)
• Truck-topped OC6s are now eligible for the Travel Grant. This applies to OC6s that are carried on overhead racks such that the height, length and width of the vehicle and load allowable on a highway is in compliance with relevant Provincial commercial transportation legislation, including applicable permits, or otherwise in compiance with applicable laws, such as applicable motor vehicle legislation. Copies of the applicable permit or authorizing legislation must accompany applications for truck-topped travel.

See BC Commercial Transport Act Regulations and
BC Motor Vehicle Act Regulations

The Travel Grant Application on the CORA website will be current as of mid-July 2022.

CORA has now posted the Canadian 2022 OC Sprints Championships Results from 59 races over the course of the Apr-30 / May-1 weekend, sliced / diced / sorted in every way possible – even by Age Division for V1 and OC6 events!

CORA wishes to express a huge round of gratitude to all of the organizations that collaborated to bring OC Sprints Racing back to Burnaby Lake and made for a very successful event that involved 5 months of planning:

• First and foremost, CORA recognizes the False Creek Racing Canoe Club volunteers who were there for many days loading / unloading / weighing / weighting / rigging launching 7 Bradley Lightning OC6s, handling registration / marshalling, lining-up / starting races, and so much more
• Kamini Jain for countless hours reworking the race schedule given the ever-changing composition of registrations and for providing impeccable leadership as Race Director
• G2G for capturing and posting and publishing accurate / timely race results
• Fairway Gorge for providing / managing the Event Shopping Cart and skillfully dealing with last-minute registrations / cancellations
• Burnaby Lake Rowing Club for stick-handling the Fortis Public Relations team to ensure this event was actually able to happen, as well setting the race course line buoys far in advance, and providing many safety boats, and ensuring the Officiating Platform was race-ready
• The CORA clubs who made their Bradley Lightning OC6s available for this event
• The V1 paddlers who graciously shared their boats so that other paddlers could compete in the V1 event
• All of the attendees who contributed to the event running ahead of schedule by being in the marshalling area, on the docks, and at the start line in a timely manner
• And lastly, the dozen CORA Board Members who each selflessly contributed hundreds upon hundreds of hours over the course of 5 months since the November 2021 AGM to guarantee the Pavilion, the parking lots, the race course, the safety boats, the OC6s, the trailering, the event shopping cart, the coffee / food vendors, the merchandise vendors, the medals, the award ceremonies, the draw prizes, and the commemorative jerseys would be in place for this 2-day event.

Please note that online sales for the Oddball Workshop Canadian 2022 OC Sprints Championships commemorative jerseys closed as of 4-May-2022 11:59PM.

Here are some links to photos taken by Mark Nodwell, FCRCC Operations Manager. Feel free to share the links with teammates, friends, and anyone who was there. Please tag yourself, your team and organization in the photos. Currently the photos are unsorted and unedited. You may use these photos for non-commercial purposes, but please credit copyright Mark Nodwell. If you share on instagram, please credit @waveswheelsandpeaks
Canoe Unloading: https://photos.app.goo.gl/d7AQPdi91QTdN2TP7
Day 1: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KicCDMTfNN7kfjSc7
Day 2: https://photos.app.goo.gl/3B3Yq5vHFW1d3xXy5

See you at Burnaby Lake in 2023!