« Saturday
It's early on a sunday
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A clean finish! (wheres the competition?)
theres no obligation to dangle $8k of camera over the water too
Lots of race lineups for the day
Prizes were awarded 10th position onwards
not all are lucky to stay balanced thou.
Racing untested hand made rafts can be a challenge in the river
The day ended with a time record broken
& they are off!
Display of the rafts
1 min+ for the track team!
till the next raft event!![The "Mt Fuji Blossom tree" raft](../../../upload/2006/01/15/20060115052403-db3bbdc8.jpg "The "Mt Fuji Blossom tree" raft (9747 visits)")
The "Mt Fuji Blossom tree" raft
not to mention splashes
& we have a collision!
Next was the walking on water event
The media race event
Safety Ready
& here we are at SRRR06
rafts made their way in & out here
& man were the finals fast!
that kept all of us very much entertained
& hey where we tried after 4 full hours of timings
Prize presentation
1st...
& we are the official timers!
tracks won the 1st position again!
Timers ready
Theres even awards for best looking, innovative rafts.
there we lots of conjestions
& even broke last year's record with a timing of 61s (from 86s) Crowning the grand trophy for track & field!
Where we literally walk on water!
& Track & field came in second overall
we have races not only on local opens, but international opens as well
A good race, next year, we would be competing again & better...
It's a nice sunny day