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When you’re out there, that’s all that matters is finishing the race because it’s so rough.
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Bathtub racers are bracing for challenges that will be thrown their way Sunday (July 26) at the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race. This year sees a new course. Starting at Maffeo Sutton Park, tubbers will head northwest around Maude Island, back toward Five Fingers Island, down around Protection Island, into the harbour and ending by the statue of Frank Ney. Marian Stewart, veteran bathtubber and 2014 seventh-place finisher, did a dry run Monday and said it seemed similar to last year’s, although the waters were calm. She is concerned about winds and conditions come race day. The rule of thumb is tubbers who make it to Entrance Island have a good chance of finishing, she said. “Because of all the escort boats and the people that are starting off in really the first 10 [racers], that’s a lot of wake and swell and everything else that’s going around Entrance, so a lot of the boats do go down going around Entrance and coming up to Entrance,”
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Jaime Garcia, bathtub racing veteran, says the new course for the 2015 Great International World Championship Bathtub Race, could lead to some rough waters.
said Stewart. Longtime bathtubber Jaime Garcia, who finished eighth last year, navigated the course by boat and said it will be a challenge around Protection and Newcastle islands. “I’ve been out there when it gets blowing and it’s a southeasterly and it’s pretty gnarly [with] three- to four-foot chops.
You don’t have the protection of Jesse Island when you go in, so it’s going to be harder to run,” said Garcia. The 2015 race will also be a family affair for Garcia, as 14-year-old daughter Deisy is entered as well. This is Deisy’s first year racing and Jaime Garcia has been offering advice on the challenges. He has
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told his daughter how to drive the bathtub, tackle waves and deal with the physical toll and fatigue bathtub racing can cause on the body. “I’ve gone through it already with the first race and I’m not looking forward to the pain of the next one,” said Deisy Garcia. She finished second in a race on Father’s Day, but for Jaime Garcia, it’s not so much about placing Sunday. “My biggest hope is that she finishes because it’s an accomplishment on its own. Because even if you don’t finish in the top, it’s such a gruelling and enduring race. When you’re out there, that’s all that matters is finishing the race because it’s so rough,” he said. The Great International World Championship Bathtub Race starts at 11 a.m. For more information on events during marine fest, please see page 10. reporter@nanaimobulletin.com
Auxiliary spillway option chosen for Colliery dam BY TAMARA CUNNINGHAM THE NEWS BULLETIN
An 11th-hour decision to fix the lower Colliery dam and abandon a legal appeal of a provincial order was made under “quite a bit of duress,” according to Coun. Bill Yoachim. Nanaimo’s nine councillors voted unanimously Monday to remediate the lower dam with an auxiliary spillway, estimated to cost between $2.8 million and $4.6 million. It will also drop its appeal of a provincial order to the Environmental Appeal Board, write concerns to the province and investigate the dams issue. The about-face comes just shy of a July 24 deadline by the B.C. comptroller of water rights to submit plans for the lower dam and on the heels of a letter sent July 16 by the province that makes it clear council’s decision on the dams, made a week ago, would not comply with a provincial order. It also lays out potential consequences, including the removal of water licences necessary to keep the dams intact and fines of up to $1 million a day, and shows individual representatives of the city could be held personally liable if the corporation commits an offence under the Water Act.
Councillors Yoachim, Gord Fuller and Jim Kipp said the potential consequences were factors in their decision and are now looking toward the investigation. Fuller said a week or two ago he didn’t think the province would do anything. It’s now become a reality the city could have been used as an example and see its water licences pulled, said Fuller, who points to conversations with people who work closely with the provincial government as reasons for what changed from last week when council decided not to move forward with lower dam remediation and instead focus on studies, creation of a committee and work on the middle dam. “I didn’t like the idea of the city being fined,” Fuller said. “But to have our water licence taken away that could have been a huge issue.” Yoachim, who proposed the motion that won unanimous consent, pointed to an approaching deadline and the province’s lack of movement on its order as reasons behind the decision. The city received a strong letter from the province, he said, adding while this decision isn’t perfect, it’s a resolution. See ‘COUNCILLORS’ /4
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