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elcome to Nanaimo, B.C., the Bathtub Racing Capital of the World, for the 51st annual Nanaimo Marine Festival and the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race.

Once again the tubbers will be challenging the Salish Sea northwest to and around Maude Island then the home stretch with the race finishing in Nanaimo Harbour adjacent to the Frank Ney statue on the beach.

This year the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society and the Nanaimo Marine Festival are saluting Canada's 150th birthday. The salute will also be the theme of this year's Bathtub Sail Past on Wheels Fun Parade on Saturday, July 22, starting at 10:30 a.m. in the Old City Quarter and through the streets of downtown Nanaimo.

There will be lots of family events at the Bathtub Days Street Fair in downtown Nanaimo, Diana Krall Plaza, Maffeo Sutton Park, Sway' A' Lana Lagoon and the Spirit Square with a Marine Festival food fair, the Harbourside Playdock, and Kiddies Karnival, the Miss Nanaimo Ambassadors arts and craft tent along with information booths galore as

W.M. (Bill) McGuire, Commodore, Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society and Nanaimo Marine Festival well the free Paradise Island Marine Festival Entertainment Stage at the Lions Pavilion.

On Friday evening the first of two outdoor concerts featuring the Stampeders, Jesse Roper. Wise Youngblood and more and on the Saturday Prism, Chevy Rays and the Fins, David Gogo and more. Friday and Saturday beer gardens in the park check the times for all these events at www.bathtubbing. com.

Also, don’t forget the pancake breakfast being held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. with the breakfast done by Grill It.

Other Bathtub activities and sales take place at all the malls and shopping centres in Nanaimo. Saturday evening, Vancouver Island’s largest and most spectacular fireworks display, the Quality Foods Festival of Lights and Music fireworks display at 10 p.m. sharp and the music is simulcast on 102.3 FM The Wave.

Then on Sunday July 23 at 11 a.m. sharp, our signature event, the 52nd annual Nanaimo-to-Nanaimo Great International World Championship Bathtub Race in Nanaimo harbour. Then follow all the coverage from the Quality Foods start line as well as ongoing Great Race coverage and the Pepsi finish line. Race information can abe heard on the Nanaimo’s Bathtub Race and Marine Festival radio stations The Wave 102.3 FM and the Wolf 106.9 FM. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all the dedicated volunteers (and we would love to have more) with the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society who work year-round to produce this festival and event. I also wish to acknowledge all the Golden, Silver and Bronze Plug sponsors and corporate members who make

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I also wish to recognize the tremendous commitment made by all the individuals participating each year in the safety and communications side of the race.

We thank the United States Navy, Canadian Navy, Canadian Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, St. John Ambulance, B.C. Ambulance, Nanaimo Amateur Radio Club, Nanaimo Port Authority, the Nanaimo Yacht Club, Nanaimo Power and Sail Squadron, RCMP Marine Division, Airspan Helicopters, Petro Value Products Canada Inc., B.C. Ferries, Protection Island Ferries, Habour Ferries, Harbour Air Sea planes, Seair Seaplanes and the many volunteers who are always there when needed.

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On behalf of the citizens of Nanaimo and City Council, it gives me great pleasure to extend a warm welcome to our community for the Nanaimo Marine Festival, July 1-31, 2017.

We are proud of our city and consider Nanaimo to be a great place to live, work and play, so we invite you to have fun and enjoy your visit with us.

The 2017 Nanaimo Marine Festival concludes on July 21-23 with Bathtub weekend. Friday night enjoy the downtown

Park on Friday and Saturday night with a number of classic Nanaimo bands and the Canadian rock group Prism. The night will end with a spectacular Quality Foods Festival of Lights fireworks display.

Nanaimo is a wonderful city, and it is our sincere desire that when you leave us, you take fond memories with you of our beautiful surrounds and of our friendliness. More importantly, the invitation is always open for you to visit here again and again.

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July is Marine Festival Month in Nanaimo To commemorate Canada 150 and kick off the month of July the City of Nanaimo has proclaimed the month of July as ‘Marine Festival Month.'

In addition to the Canada 150 celebrations in Nanaimo, the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society celebrated with a commemorative run 'Back to Vancouver' on Canada Day. The run was done to replicate the 1967 run from Nanaimo to Vancouver. Twelve tubs started but only five tubs made the rough crossing with the fastest one at two hours and 11 minutes.

We then kicked off Marine Festival events July 7-9 with the 15th annual Nanaimo Save-On-Foods Dragonboat Festival. It was a weekend of fun for the entire family. Proceeds went to the Nanaimo Hospital Foundation and Nanaimo Community Hospice benefiting breast cancer patients.

For the next event, Sunday, July 16, we celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Nanaimo Child Development

Centre's Silly Boat Regatta. Fifty teams and thousands of spectators joined together for a spectacular day full of teamwork, camaraderie and good clean fun, all in support of a great cause.

Every year the NCDC raises upward of $100,000 to run their programs supporting Nanaimo families.

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We wrap things up Sunday with the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race. The excitement starts after 10 a.m. with the starting gun at 11 a.m. As many as 50 brave bathtub racers tackle a gruelling 36-nautical mile course on the Salish Sea in hopes of being first to ring the bell. The course can take between one hour and several hours to complete and both start and finish lines are in front of the park.

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Communication vital to tub safety

BY BOB SMITS This year, the Canada 150 Great International World Championship Bathtub Race will begin in Nanaimo harbour near Maffeo Sutton Park, and take a circuitous route past Gallows Point, around Entrance Island, around Maud Island, around Five Fingers Island and Gallows Point and back to the finish line in Nanaimo Harbour.

Each year about 50 tubs take part in some thrilling and dangerous racing.

To keep the tubs and the drivers safe, the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society has an extensive Safety and Communications program. Each year we meet well in advance of the race, assess the conditions and ensure a plan is in place for a safe race.

The organizations included in the race activities are the City of Nanaimo, the Canadian Coast Guard,

RCM-SAR, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, the Nanaimo Port Authority, the RCMP, St. John Ambulance, Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association and CFMETR. To co-ordinate all this activity requires a great deal of communication.

All the tubs must be accompanied by an escort boat, to ensure the tub driver's safety. Each escort vessel must have a Marine VHF radio to communicate with Bathtub Control and the Coast Guard. In addition, a separate Bathtub Control station is set up on Gabriola Island to ensure communications with escort vessels all the way to the mouth of Nanoose Bay. Each tub must also pass various checkpoints, including Gallows Point, Entrance Island, Checkpoint Three (a CFMETR vessel moored just north of Maud Island), Checkpoint Four (just east of Imperieuse Rock), Checkpoint Five (Five Fingers Islands), and the

Big Tub at Gallows Point before entering the Harbour.

Spotters and radio operators from the Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association, operate from each checkpoint.

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The spotters and radio operators or “hams” are all volunteers who bring their own equipment for the task.

The “hams” communicate through the club UHF repeater at Lost Lake, to provide links over the entire race course.

All these activities are linked to Bathtub Control at the Coast Bastion Hotel. There, four or five radio operators monitor Marine VHF channels and stay in contact with escort vessels.

It is vital that an escort vessel notifies Bathtub Control when a tub has

dropped out of the race so that extensive searches are not undertaken for tubs not accounted for.

As each tub and escort passes a checkpoint, the “hams” notify Bathtub Control that the pair has passed that particular checkpoint so that bathtub trackers can update the status board that shows the location of every tub. The trackers at Bathtub Control ensure that they know when each tub has reached each checkpoint.

This communications system, which connects all the participants in the

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Bob Smits is communications and safety director for the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society.

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Bathtub weekend offers full slate of events MAFFEO SUTTON PARK Free events for the whole family all weekend include arts and crafts fair, Kiddies Karnival, food vendors, a children's craft tent, Internet sensation Maya Rae, Nanaimo Idol, wakeboard competitions and more.

Friday, July 21 - 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday, July 22 - 9 a.m.-11 p.m.

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Plus two huge concerts in Maffeo Sutton Park! On Friday, catch The Stampeders, Jesse Roper, Wise Youngblood, The Hip Replacements, The Black Franks.

Friday, July 21 - gate opens at 4 p.m.

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Saturday, July 22 - gate opens at 4 p.m.

Tickets for each night are $25 in advance, $35 at the gate. Weekend passes are $45 in advance, $65 at the gate. Tickets online at http://bathtubbing.tickit.ca. Tickets also available in the following stores (while supplies last, limited tickets available): Arbutus Music, The Queen's, Fascinating Rhythm, Funk Your Fashion.

Shaw is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s “Sail Past on Wheels Parade” taking place Saturday, July 22nd. We’re also excited to be participants in this year’s parade in addition to once again providing television coverage of all of the race day action taking place at Swy-a-lana Lagoon on Sunday, July 23rd.

Our crew of 18 staff and volunteers look forward to being a part of this major community event, capturing all of the excitement, sights and sounds of the day. Whether or not you are able to catch the action in person, you can tune in to Shaw TV, Channel 4, for our first, of several, broadcasts of the race on July 26th at 7pm. For additional air times, visit shaw.ca/shawtv/Nanaimo.

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Friday, July 21 - 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturday July 22 - 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

From Victoria Crescent around the China Steps to Terminal Avenue, the Victoria Crescent Association will have street entertainers, a performance stage, demonstrations, tai chi in the morning, a waiters' race Saturday afternoon, watermelon eating contest, egg run/toss, a giant kids' slide and bouncy castle, face painting and balloon blowing, a car show, a dog agility show, weird and wacky bicycle display, an ambulance for tours, a dunk tank and more. All to foster community spirit!

Friday, July 21 - 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 22 - 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

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Sunday, July 23 - 11:15 a.m., The Eggmen (Beatles tribute); 12:30 p.m., 2016 Nanaimo Idol Brianna Nixon with The Femme Fatales; 1:15 p.m.

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Saturday, July 22 - 10 p.m.

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Vancouver Island’s largest fireworks show with music will be held in Nanaimo harbour on Saturday night. This year's musical theme is Canada 150. The show starts at 10 p.m.

Quality Foods has sponsored the light show for many years and we are honoured to work with them again this year.

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Tom Harris, who passed away at the age of 67 in Roche Harbor, Wash. on June 29, will be remembered and honoured by the Bathtub community, and the whole community of Nanaimo.

The Harris group has faithfully sponsored a bathtub entry every year and had a winning tub in 2013 when Brandon Leigh was the winner of the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race.

Tom also sponsored Bathtub weekend’s King Neptune Dance,

lending his Cadillac to transport King Neptune after he was crowned.

That tradition continued until one year when the Nanaimo Hornets rugby team was riding around in the car and left a dead fish in the trunk for the whole weekend!

Beyond being a supporter of the Bathtub race and so many other Nanaimo community events, Tom was a successful businessman, building the Harris Auto Group and Tom Harris Cellular. Nanaimo's Citizen of the Year in 2004, he received in 2012 the Queen Elizabeth II DiaBrandon Leigh, sponsored by Harris Auto Group, finished mond Jubilee Medal recognizing his service to the community and to first at the 2013 Great International World Championship Bathtub Race.

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We are hoping to add a circuit race at Kits Beach in Vancouver starting in 2018.

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