Distance: 7 Miles
Difficulty: 2
Pre-race meeting: 9:15 a.m.
Race start: 10:00 a.m.
Leave I-5 at Exit 230. Follow SR 20 west. Left on La Conner-Whitney Road. Just as you enter La Conner take a left onto Maple. Right at Caledonia. Left at 3rd. St. S. Right at Sherman. Follow Sherman to the boat ramp and parking under the orange arched bridge.
If you would like to fill out your entry form ahead of the race (especially if you are under 18 years of age and need parental permission) you can get a copy here: Entry/Release Form (PDF Document, 11kb; download free Adobe Acrobat to view)
The course heads down the Swinomish Channel, west past Goat Island, around "Can C-1" (the green buoy), and returns to the start. If the weather is foul the course may be altered to a more sheltered area.
Evan Jacobs and Tyler Peterson, 44:59 in 2009 in a 2x.
Members of Sound Rowers: $8 per person.
Non-Members: $18 per person.
Ribbons awarded for 1st-3rd by category.
The 2009 post race soup'n'bread
will be at a new location this year: the La Conner Civic Garden Club.
map (pdf)
From the meeting place under the bridge (start & finish line)
Go back the way you came in - Conner Way to Sherman St. and left on S. 3rd St to Caledonia. At the stop sign at Caledonia, go straight and follow S. 3rd - it goes around a corner to the left and up a little hill. At the top of that hill is a stop sign and S. 3rd has become S. 2nd and you're now at the corner of S. 2nd St and Commercial (Maple Hall is on the left). Go straight at this stop sign and the Garden Club is one block up on the left at 622 S. 2nd Street. You can park on the street all around this neighborhood (or you can go back to the big parking lot down the hill on S. 3rd Street - but it's a pay lot).
Coming into La Conner from the major freeways
As you come into La Conner you'll be on Morris St (you've just come around the roundabout). Take the very first left onto Maple Street (a restaurant called 'Seeds' will be on your right at this intersection of Morris and Maple). Continue on Maple St for aprox. 8 blocks and go right on Calendona. Go straight on Caledonia for about 3 blocks and go right on S. 3rd Street. S. 3rd goes around a corner to the left and up a little hill. At the top of that hill is a stop sign and S. 3rd has become S. 2nd and you're now at the corner of S. 2nd St and Commercial (Maple Hall is on the left). Go straight at this stop sign and the Garden Club is one block up on the left at 622 S. 2nd Street. You can park on the street all around this neighborhood (or you can go back to the big parking lot down the hill on S. 3rd Street - but it's a pay lot).