CORA News

Following the Canadian National Outrigger Championships last weekend in Comox, the 2022 CORA Cup series is complete. Previous CORA Cup races were Duel in the Desert, Island Iron and Lotus Iron.
Club crews qualified in 8 divisions, all in Long Course, with crews in UL Open Women and UL Open Men battling for the title, while crews in the other 6 divisons claimed their titles through their dedication to racing.

The CORA Cup winners for 2022 are:

Long Course Spec
Open Men – FCRCC RD Tanifa Men (20 pts)
Long Course UL
Open Women – L48 Women (18 pts) [other qualifying crew: FCRCC WMO Open Women (13 pts)]
Masters 50 Women – FGPC Performance Senior Women Blue (20 pts)
Masters 60 Women – L48 60+ Women (20 pts)
Masters 40 Mixed – FGPC Performance Masters Mixed (18 pts)
Open Men – Jericho Outrigger (18 pts) [other qualifying crews: FCRCC WMO Open Men (13 pts), L48 Open Men (11 pts) & Pacifc Reach Men (7.5 pts)]
Masters 40 Men – FGPC Performance Masters Men (20 pts)
Masters 60 Men – L48 60+ Men (20 pts)

For the Club Crew CORA Cup, based on the total of all CORA Cup points earned by each CORA club in the CORA Cup series races, False Creek Racing Canoe Club squeaked out a win with 102 points, one point over Latitude 48 Paddling Club’s 101 points, while Nationals host Comox Valley Canoe Racing Club accrued 67 points and Fairway Gorge Paddling Club accrued 62.5 points.

Congratulations to the winners!

Outrigger & Dragon Boat Races ~ 1000M Straightshot Qualifiers / 2K Oval “Doublestart” Championship Finals

This unique day of racing provides crew boat OC6 racers (in FGPC-supplied ultralight OC6s) with opportunities to test their sprint performance and entertain spectators. OC6 crews will alternate heats with dragon boat crews who are also participating. Of interest, OC6 crews consider these distances “sprint” while alternating dragon boat crews consider the day’s races as distance. Lots of fun and challenge for both crew boat formats.

Registration is open for teams who are ready to race in crewboat OC6s. Note that all boats are supplied by FGPC, including Millennium dragonboats, and ultralight OC6s. Registration Deadline: September 4, 2022

CLICK HERE to register!

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.