Nanaimo Bathtub Race Route
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Nanaimo bathtub race route. The bathtub race is part of a 4 day marine festival that happens every year in july. Nanaimo bathtub race winners. 250 753 race 7223 fax. It involves the use of a bathtub boat.
Nanaimo bc v9r 4z2. 250 753 race 7223 fax. Nanaimo bathtub race route. Bathtub racing started right here in nanaimo.
Po box 1001 nanaimo a nanaimo bc v9r 5z2 tel. Leave a reply cancel reply. It was the last of three events during the nanaimo marine festival weekend to be cancelled. The loyal nanaimo bathtub society has decided to cancel the 53rd world championship bathtub race being held in late july.
Nanaimo canada s 150th birthday will inlcude a blast from the past when the old world championship bathtub race route is reborn for a special voyage. Nanaimo bathtub races 2019. Nanaimo residents wanted to showcase this beautiful city to the world and organized the first race beginning with the nanaimo to vancouver great international world championship bathtub race which was held in 1967. A vancouver island man has written a book covering almost 50 years of a nanaimo based bathtub racing competition that once had a race route that stretched all the way across the strait of georgia and today features high tech vessels that are a combination of speedboat and bathtub.
The bathtub doctor victoria bc. Po box 1001 nanaimo a nanaimo bc v9r 5z2 tel. As the city of nanaimo s centennial event more than 200 tubbers in every type of watercraft imaginable entered the fun competition and amazingly 47 completed the 36 mile course to vancouver s fisherman s cove across the straits of georgia. A vancouver island man has written a book covering 50 years of a nanaimo based bathtub racing competition that once had a race route that stretched all the way across the strait of georgia.
Loyal nanaimo bathtub society. Nanaimo bathtub races 2018. Nanaimo bathtub races fireworks. In 1997 the race route changed to start in nanaimo go around winchelsea islands and back to nanaimo harbour.
The loyal nanaimo bathtub society lnbs has announced a july 1 race between nanaimo and vancouver which was the original course from 1967 to 1996. Nanaimo the waters off the coast of nanaimo will be relatively calm this summer without dozens of bathtubs racing across the waves. Nanaimo harbour was the scene of a bathtub race extravaganza at the first race in 1967 which was canada s 100th birthday.