Club comes together for great event
2006 Current Buster and Aluminum Nationals

The St. Charles Canoe Club has something to smile about! The 2006 Current Buster and Aluminum Nationals was a great success. We had 92 participants! We had 8 different states represented!

It was a busy two days in the Fox River in St. Charles IL. Not often in northern Illinios can one have two wonderful days of 70+ degree temps and calm winds on the first weekend of May. It really could not have been better race conditions. The weekend of races had three distances. The National Championship Aluminum races had the 28 competitors (14 Alum canoes) paddle a full 15 miles with 7.5 miles upstream and 7.5 miles downstream in a two lap pattern. That distance took over 2 1/2 hours to complete. The other USCA events were 9.5 miles of a single loop. The recreation classes did a single loop of 6 miles in length. We had over 20 club members helping out in the event.

The volunteers from the Club were outstanding! We put on a professional race and the lunch for participants and volunteers was outstanding!!!! Thanks to the leadership of Karl Teske, Steve Conlon, and Jennie Quill we had all areas covered. Your Race Chairperson, Tave Lamperez, got help from everybody this year.

Tave Lamperez

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