Corran addison stands tall.
photo: courtesy imaGine surFboards
river sHorties
One hit Wonders
It seemed 2009 was the year of competition-spe-
cific boat design. Liquidlogic designer Shane
Benedict cleaned the mold on the Stinger—an
elongated, cab-forward Remix 100—just a couple
of weeks before its inauguration, the Green River
Narrows Race. Benedict had no plans to make the
Stinger available commercially, saying, “I really
like the fact that this boat was made for one single
purpose: to go fast on the Green.” Months earlier,
Australian rookie kayak company owner Anthony
Yap built a new composite freestyle boat to slay the
competition at the World Championships in Thun,
Switzerland. Neither boat won its respective event.
Open Boaters steal Whitewater
limelight
Welsh adventure filmmaker, Justine Curgenven,
best known in outdoor circles for her This is the
Sea sea kayaking films, recently focused her lens
on canoeing. The result, a two-disc, feature length
film called This is Canoeing, looks at inspiring per-
sonalities, wilderness journeys and whitewater ad-
ventures with candid interviews and Curgenven’s
trademark, boat-mounted camera angles. From
an eventful trip across the moors of Scotland, Cur-
genven takes us on a family whitewater weekend
in Algonquin Park with Rapid publisher Scott Mac-
Gregor and to the class V creeks of upstate New
York. Available March 10th from CackleTV Produc-
tions, cackletv.com.
skeena river source to sea swim
Last summer, Ali Howard, a 33-year-old Smithers,
B.C.-based chef, completed an epic whitewater
swim: 28 days and 610 kilometres from source to
sea on British Columbia’s Skeena River. Howard, a
former professional water polo player, undertook
the swim in partnership with the Skeena Watershed
Conservation Coalition to raise awareness of indus-
trial threats to the province’s second longest river.
Among the challenges she faced—swimming four
to eight hours a day in a Gore-Tex drysuit, joined
by a support team in rafts and kayaks—were class
IV canyons on the upper river and strong winds
and tides near the mouth. Howard said she hoped
her swim would unite the diverse communities that
rely on the Skeena’s wild salmon fishery to speak
out against proposed coal-bed methane drilling in
the Sacred Headwaters and oil pipeline develop-
ment in the surrounding watershed. skeenawater-
shed.com/swim —VM
sPring whitewater events
For a complete event listing, go to the new rapidmag.com
February 11 March 26–28
reel paddlinG Film FestiVal 24th annual santa cruz
World tour premiere KayaK surF FestiVal
toronto, oN Santa Cruz, Ca
reelpaddlingfilmfestival.com asudoit.com/kayak_fest/index.
html
February 26–28
outdoor adVenture April 17–18
shoW 46th Kern riVer FestiVal
toronto, oN Kernville, Ca
outdooradventureshow.ca kernfestival.org
March 12–14 April 17–18
canoecopia macKFest
Madison, WI Marmora, oN
rutabaga.com/canoecopia mackfest.ca
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