Start : February 1, 2020 9:45/10:00 AM
Level: 2
Distance: 7mi
Meeting: 9:15 AM
Director : Rod Sternagel
Phone: 206.387.1637
Getting to the Start
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.
Race Registration
Online registration: You can pre-register without making a final commitment, so please sign up if you are even *thinking* of racing. Plus you’ll save $5! Pre-registration makes sign-ups go much quicker and easier on race day. Bonus – get your name spelled correctly.
Race Course
The 2019 course headed down the Swinomish Channel, west past Goat Island, around “Can C-1” (the green buoy), and returned to the start. If the weather is foul the course may be altered day-of-race to a more sheltered area. Course may change for 2020.
Early Start
9:45am early start for SUPs and any other boat that requests it. Contact Rod Sternagel if you would like to be in the early start – especially if your boat speed is under 4 mph.
Course Record
Evan Jacobs and Tyler Peterson, 44:59 in 2009 in a 2x.
Entry Fees
Pre-registration discount
Members of Sound Rowers: $10 per person
Non-members: $15 per person
Day of race registration
Members of Sound Rowers: $15 per person
Non-members: $20 per person
Boats of 3+ competitors
$10 per person (members and/or nonmembers)
Awards
Ribbons awarded for 1st-3rd by category.
Post Race
Lunch and awards will be immediately following the race and will be held in the park’s picnic shelter at the top of the hill. You can either leave your cars parked and walk up the stairs (across the road from the playground) or you can drive up to the top by following the shoreline past the playground until the road splits. Stay to the left and head up the hill. At the top of the hill (skip the first left partway up the hill) there is an entrance to a circular drive for the shelter area with limited parking available. There is also a restroom that will be open all day in addition to the portable toilet at the bottom of the stairs.