The Quad Cities are shooting long for 2,010 boats this Saturday, August 21 at 2:00 PM. Our World Record attempt for the largest raft of canoes/kayaks faces a contender, Floatzilla: a paddlesports festival in the Quad Cities. The official count for our record is 1,619. Official word from Guinness still pending.
According to the Floatzilla Facebook page, 225 paddlers were signed up on August 2, just 19 days before the event. Venture Outdoors records show that two weeks prior to their attempt, 1,105 were registered—the exact number needed to break the record.
“We wish them luck, of course,” said Jon Lucadamo, Program Director at Venture Outdoors and one of the masterminds behind Venture Outdoors’ June 5 attempt. “But we also really wouldn’t mind if our record stuck on the books for a while.”
Floatzilla’s official website, www.floatzilla.org, features a shout-out to Pittsburgh for “raising the bar.” Linking to the time-lapse photography of paddlers merging together and scattering when the rain starts, the site author wrote,
“If you care to see what a world record attempt looks like just check out this video of Paddle at the Point.”
Darn right! Paddle at the Point and Floatzilla originally set out to beat the same record: 1,104 canoes and kayaks set in 2008 in Inlet, New York. Cross your fingers for the Midwest as they set out to raise the bar even further in the coming week!
We are going to beat you…we are going to beat you! (I hope) ;p
Sadness…We did not break the world record which means we did not break your new world record. :`( MAYBE NEXT YEAR!!!
Any information on when our world record will become official?