CORA News

The Island Iron (Victoria edition) (OC6) and the Cadborosaurus Chase (small boats) return Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5, 2022.

This is Race #2 in this year’s CORA Cup Series.  Hosted by Latitude 48 Paddling Club with a beach start from beautiful Cadboro Bay, this race has some of the most interesting waters on the CORA circuit! The 17 km iron course loops behind Chatham and Discovery Islands and crosses Baynes Channel. The 6-7 km short course is more sheltered and available for juniors and novice teams.

Race start times:

• 10:00 a.m. – short course
• 11:00 a.m. – long course – women
• 1:00 p.m. – long course – men and mixed

Race fees:  $180 per crew for short course and $240 per crew for long course. 

Lunch will be provided.

Register through Webscorer on the L48 website. Deadline: May 29th, 2022

Questions? Contact latitude48races@gmail.com 

The Jericho Iron OC6 races return on Saturday, May 28th, 2022!

Hosted by the Jericho Paddling Club and starting from the Jericho Sailing Centre, this year’s races feature 2 courses traversing English Bay — a long course (16km) and a short course (8 km). Race day conditions will determine the exact course and length.

Race Start Times:
• 9:00 AM — Short Course — Men, Women & Mixed
• 10:30 AM — Long Course — Women & Mixed
• 12:30 PM — Long Course — Men

Race Fees: $240 per crew. Lunch will be provided.

Jericho Iron registration via Webscorer HERE.
Registration closes: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 11:59 PM PDT (GMT-7)

CORA membership (annual or day fee) is required to race and can be purchased HERE.

Need more information?
Contact jerichopaddleclub@gmail.com.

CLICK HERE for final results

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!