PDRacer World Championship
There are two official world championpships. One is the the "World Championship" which is on a 3 year roatating schedule to determine who hosts the following year's race. For info about winning the rights to host this race, see the bottom of this page. The second is the "SDDP World Championship", which means Same Day Different Place, where anyone across the world can compete in their local waters on the same 3 day time window. For more info, see the bottom of this page.
Regional Championships & Annual Races
Any puddle ducker is welcome to organize and host open invitational annual races / championships, such as a championship of your state, province, your country etc. We don't really have our own calendar, but the best public calendar of all messabout & home built boat events is at DuckWorksMagazine.com.
2008 World Championship -- August 23 and 24
Doug O'Rielly has won the rights to host the 2008 World Championship. He hosted a race on 8-4-07 which had 5 hulls that qualified. The hosting rights were transferred to Andrew Linn.
From Andrew:
The 2008 World Puddle Duck Racer World Champeenships will be held in Toledo, Oregon, in conjunction with the Toledo Wooden Boatshow. The date is August 23 and 24. I will be there no later than Thursday evening, August 22. You can read about the Toledo Wooden Boat Show here: PortOfToledo.org There is an excellent slough we can race in, right in front of the crowds. This is going to be a hoot. For amenities, the Port of Toledo allows us to camp on their site, There are porta potties and I am not sure of the shower facilities. For those who like nicer digs, there is a hotel in town and Toledo is only a few miles away from the coastal town of Newport, which has gobs of hotels. Toledo is a small place, and they love their Wooden Boat Show. If you come, you are gonna have a good time. You will, however, have to sign a waiver stating that you will not move to Oregon.
Andrew
alinn@andrewlinn.com
2007 World ChampionshipThe Okanagan Fleet of Puddle Duck racers played host to the 2007 Puddle Duck World Championships over the weekend at Peach Orchard Park in Summerland. Fleet Captain Gordon Seiter in Hull #58, Goliath took first Overall. The Team of Christine Caumartin and Ted Morrison sailed Boat # 146, Martin Cleaners BCQT to second overall. Rick Landreville out of Chilliwack finished third in Hull #136, Monstrosity. Rick also won the prize for coming the furthest distance to attend, and enjoyed the room donated by The Rosedale Motel.
In total seven boats took part in the two day event. Honorable mention goes to the Smith Family of Faulder who entered two boats and saw their newest, Hull #114 Lincoln Imp, crewed by Gary and Mathew win Sunday's Tail Chase Race. Race Organizer Jane Turnell admits Mandy and Racheal were somewhat handicapped racing Hull #92 Sink-A- Moose constructed by Summerland Mayor David Gregory during last years Centennial Puddle Duck Hatch.
Sass Boutiques Calypso, Hull #147, finished both days out of the points.
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Contact Gordon Seiter at the Okanagan Fleet Puddle Duck Racers
2007 World Champion
2006 ChampDave Sargent, #7 "Ducky"
5-13-06 Dave won the World Championship for a second time at Magnolia Beach TX. For more info [click here]
2005 ChampDave Sargent, #7 "Ducky"
8-6-05 Dave won the World Championship at the Lake Charles Messabout. For more info [click here]
2004 ChampKen Abrahams, #2 "Ugly Duckling"
8-7-04 Ken won the first race series of PDRacers, and became our first world champion. [click here]
Winning The Rights to Host The World Championship
Race Location
The World Championship Race location shall be rotated in a 3 year cycle.
Year 1 shall be held at a location picked by Shorty, most probably the Duckworks Annual Magnolia Beach messabout since it is such a great location.
Year 2's location and date will be determined by the fleet organizer which won the right to do so, and can't be Shorty.
Year 3's location and date will be determined the same as year 2, except it can't be from Shorty or year 2's fleet captain, or at the location of year 1 or 2.
Then the cycle starts over again at year 1.
Years that Shorty will be hosting world championship: 2009 2012 2015 2018
Rules for winning the rights,
to host future world championships
To get the rights for the next one, a Fleet Captain / Race Organizer (FC/RO) has to hold a race within 60 days before or after the current World Championship. The FC/RO with the largest number of PDRacers on the starting line in that time period, gets the rights and can then pick the date and location for the next calendar year WC race.
- The boats involved in the race must be setup in class legal configuration (meaning they are 3D), however they do not have to have hull numbers, or be configured in any other way besides class legal 3D.
- The starting line of the race has to be on the water, the hulls must be floating, and each boat must have a skipper in it. (I am gonna need a picture of that)
- The FC/RO is the person who is in charge of the race (determined location, promoted it, administered it). If you have a dispute within your fleet organization who that is, that is up to you guys to decide.
- The FC/RO does not have to have any other qualifications other than they organized the race which happed in the time window.
- The people who participate in the race do not have to belong to the FC/RO's fleet or have any other affiliation, it is just a matter of how many class legal hulls showed up on the start line.
- 51% of the racers at that race, must have not participated in the previous 2 world championships (this is to prevent the same fleet from electing a new organizer, and getting the rights for the next year)
- If 2 fleets have the same number of hulls, then the race that happened first gets the rights. (so record the exact time of day you got everyone out to the starting line)
Same Day Different Place World Championship
For all of us that can't make it to the World Championship Race, this SDDP race for you ! Basically we all go sailing in our own home waters during the same time window. We then send in our results of how fast we went over the distance and the person with the fastest time wins.
Rules:
1 - Boat must be setup in class legal configuration.
2 - Each person will sail 5 miles in water and report the time it took to cover that 5 miles.
3 - Distance measured by Point to point, not elapsed distance by GPS.
4 - Can sail more than required distance, and use the averaged time / speed for best set of continuous sequential points.
5 - Must change direction so 50% of distance travelled was in opposite directions. And by opposite, we mean atleast 60 degree difference from previous direction was travelling.
6 - Wind blown only
7 - Must be sailed in an area where tidal flows & currents will not affect the speed.
8 - Race Window is 3 calendar days, the middle day is the same date as the official PDRacer World Championship race.
NOTE: Since we have a 3 day window, and results are reported by the person, multiple people can use the same boat at different times, and each of them would be independent competitors for the SDDP world championship.
9 - Results must me emailed to the PDRacer yahoo discussion group by midnight the day after, the last day of window.
Results to email in:
Your name
Your Home Port (city you live in)
Hull number of Boat you used
Body of water you sailed in
Location of that body of water (nearest big city, state, country etc)
Date and time your 5 miles was completed
Time to cover your 5 miles as per these rules
Total sailing miles covered while competing in this race (possibly over multiple days)
Please upload atleast 1 picture to the photo section of the discussion group
preferences of trophies, in order you would want them
Comments to be displayed on results page
Trophies
Everyone must upload one or more drawings, that were created by them, of a trophy to a folder in the photos section of the PDRacer Yahoo group - the folder is named "2008 SDDP Trophies"). The first place winner gets their first pic of trophy, then 2nd place gets theirs etc. You print out the trophy picture, and then that is the trophy you get. It would be great if someone could photoshop combine the trophy picture with a picture of the skipper and their boat, and indicate on the picture what place they got.