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AquanFest San Mateo, CA June 11-12
www.aquansports.com
California Canoe & Kayak Paddlefest Racho Cordova, CA June 18
www.calkayak.com See ad on page 23
Eppies Great Race
Rancho Cordova & Sacramento, CA July 23
www.thegreatrace.org
US Surf Ski Nationals San Francisco, CA Aug 12-14
www.ussurfski.com
American River Festival Coloma, CA Sep 9-11
www.americanriverfestival.com
Feather River Festival Tobin, CA Sep 23-25
www.chicopaddleheads.org
Traditional Arctic Kayak Symposium (TAKS) San Simeon, CA Oct 14-16
www.shamankayaks.com/shaman/taks/
Wavechaser Paddle Series Various NorCal locations Various dates
www.wavechaser.com
To submit news or an event for consideration to California Kayaker Magazine, please send basic information to
editor@calkayakermag.com.
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Raising Money for Charities While You Paddle
There are many events where you can tie in exercising and raising money for charities–Support Strokes, Eppie’s Great Race, Sea Trek Regat- ta, etc. You can have great fun while raising money for good causes. One caveat is that they all require you to hit up your friends for donations, pony up cash of your own, or both. That’s how the charity makes money.
Now, an online service has started where just exercising alone can raise money for charities, without any cost to you. Plus 3 Network (www.
plus3network.com) brings together corporate sponsors, charities, and exercisers.
Here is how it works. You select a sponsor-charity pair, and then start logging your miles or time. Based on the type and amount of exercising, the sponsor donates money to the paired charity. For example, when I do a 10-mile paddle, shoe company Sidi will donate $0.75 to Surfrider Foundation Monterey chapter. And if I used a GPS and directly transferred the data to Plus 3, they currently will double the amount donated to $1.50, as they consider this verified information.
And to make it more user-friendly to the people exercising, Plus 3 Network has added social networking aspects to the site. You can connect with friends and see what activities they are doing, and even see GPS tracks of their activities mapped out. If you join, feel free to connect with “Peter CalKayakerMag”.
And they have apps for iPhone and Palm smartphones (Android is sup- posed to be coming soon) that make tracking your activities easier.
The money may seem like small change–one paddle won’t make hunger go away, but a regular exer- cise routine does add up. California
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The 2011 Santa Cruz Paddlefest (formerly Santa Cruz Surf Kayak Festival) was held on Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz on March 18-20. Kayak surfers were scored based on their best 2 or 3 waves in each heat. Full results can be found at
www.jmh. com/kayak/
scsc11.htm.
High Performance Men’s 1 Galen Licht
2 Stephen Farthing 3 Dave Johnston
High Performance Women’s 1 Kate Duncan 2 Devon Barker 3 Rachel Krugman
Masters Open 1 Dan Crandall 2 Ken King
3 Dave Johnston
International, Men’s 1 Jim Grossman 2 Stefano Bellotti 3 Dan Crandall
International, Women’s 1 Rachel Krugman 2 Devon Barker 3 Morlee Griswold
Wave Ski Open 1 Ken King 2 Blair Moore 3 Tyler Lausten
High Performance Intermediate Open 1 Doug Hudson 2 Gabriele Dellacasa 3 Barry Hughes
Production Plastic Intermediate Open 1 Gregory Lee 2 Steve McConnell 3 Shane Way
Sit-on-Top Intermediate Open 1 Dave Romeike 2 Sam Narens 3 Jim Lohr
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