Burnaby Canoe and Kayak Club

Sunday, March 11, 2007

New BUK Dragon Boats


BCKC has just purchased a new BUK dragon boat in order to support our school dragon boating program, but before we could get the boat we had to help unload the 10 newly arrived BUKs. Darrell and John put their forklift operating skills to work to move the boats out of the container and then to unstack the boats. The entired operation took about 8 hours to complete and volunteer spirits remained high despite the best efforts of the rain to put a damper on the mood. Thanks to BCKCers Darrell, John, Graham, Catherine, Katja and Jeff for their time and effort. A huge thanks go out to James, Arnold and Andrew for their monumental efforts on the day, as well as to the Waters Edge and Sudden Impact groups for their tremendous contributions. Thanks also to Jeff's parents Roy and Maynetta for bailing us out by coming out on very short notice to assist in offloading the new BCKC dragon boat from the trailer at our temporary storage location.

The Pineapple Express has arrived!



Wow, the temperature is nice and mild but what's with all this rain? Our forecasted heavy rain warning called for as much as 70mm of rain. Only Katja and Jeff ventured out on the lake this morning and other than the excess precipitation it was fine day for a paddle. We and the ducks had a fine time splashing around on the lake.