AUGUST OTTAWA ARMADA INFO!
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 5:47 pm
HELLO EVERYONE!
At this Springs'a Armada on the NB Potomac, it was suggested that another Ottawa type Armada be planned for August...so consider this your invitation to a grassroots, no-nonsense let's go boatin' type of festival!
We have had many US boaters express an interest in coming to explore our rivers...so this is a great chance for us to showcase what Ontario paddling is all about!
Here are some details and a rough outline of the weekend ( I am TOTALLY flexible with this!!! Feel free to give me some feedback!):
**Friday August 1st to Monday August 4th-Use River Run as our Base Camp. We can set aside one of the quiet group camping areas to ourselves
*Paddle the Ottawa, Rouge, Gatineau, Madawaska....whatever has the best water and whatever suits paddlers desires!!
*Share tips and tricks, do some outfitting, have some informal on-water clinics (any leaders wanna volunteer?)
*Sell some boats or gear
*Meet some new friends and visit with some old ones.....tell lies around the campfire, etc...
*the list goes on......
I am not planning on huge corporate sponsors, websites, big prizes or lotsa fanfare...considering we are all busy people and the date is just over a month away I am proposing this:
Let's get together and laugh and play.
Hope you can make it.
Looking forward to sharing an eddy with you soon.
Best Wishes,
Kalin of the Great White North.
P.S.> Some great websites to check out are:
http://www.boatwerks.net/
www.ottawariver.com
www.kipawariver.ca
http://www.ottawakayak.com/
http://www.gatineau.org/
At this Springs'a Armada on the NB Potomac, it was suggested that another Ottawa type Armada be planned for August...so consider this your invitation to a grassroots, no-nonsense let's go boatin' type of festival!
We have had many US boaters express an interest in coming to explore our rivers...so this is a great chance for us to showcase what Ontario paddling is all about!
Here are some details and a rough outline of the weekend ( I am TOTALLY flexible with this!!! Feel free to give me some feedback!):
**Friday August 1st to Monday August 4th-Use River Run as our Base Camp. We can set aside one of the quiet group camping areas to ourselves
*Paddle the Ottawa, Rouge, Gatineau, Madawaska....whatever has the best water and whatever suits paddlers desires!!
*Share tips and tricks, do some outfitting, have some informal on-water clinics (any leaders wanna volunteer?)
*Sell some boats or gear
*Meet some new friends and visit with some old ones.....tell lies around the campfire, etc...
*the list goes on......
I am not planning on huge corporate sponsors, websites, big prizes or lotsa fanfare...considering we are all busy people and the date is just over a month away I am proposing this:
Let's get together and laugh and play.
Hope you can make it.
Looking forward to sharing an eddy with you soon.
Best Wishes,
Kalin of the Great White North.
P.S.> Some great websites to check out are:
http://www.boatwerks.net/
www.ottawariver.com
www.kipawariver.ca
http://www.ottawakayak.com/
http://www.gatineau.org/