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Online Registration for PotomacFest is now closed.  You can register on Saturday or Sunday at the following times and locations.  Tickets for the Festival Party may also be purchased at the door on Saturday beginning at 6pm.

The clinics are shaping up and as promised we are going to have a fun line up with something for every category of boater!

Here is what we are looking at so far:

1. Money collected for the gear swap is a donation to AW as a part of the fund-raising efforts of PoFest!
2. You may enter as many non-boat items as you want for a total of $5.
3. You may enter as many boats as you want. The cost will be $10 per boat.

We are in need of a few paddlers to help us conduct The Falls Race. Jobs needed would be timers and starters and a few solid safety folks.  Timers and starters need to have some solid Class 4 skills to get to the timing sites. Safety paddlers need to paddle Class V, have good rope skills, and be very sure footed.

Camping can be done just upriver from the festival and events site Swains Lock, which is located off of River Rd.  The camping is first come first served and is a primitive site.  See map for directions, link for Details. http://www.nps.gov/archive/choh/Recreation/Camping.html

The 2008 Boatercross was held in O-Deck.  Instead of the preliminary heats advertised in the event description, the competitors voted for a mass start race.  They lined up against the Flake, waited for the starting judge to shout "Go!" and then careened through the rapid.  There were two buoys to negotiate: one in the big river left eddy and one at the bottom of Fisherman's Eddy.  After rou

The 2008 Community Gorge Paddle was a great success, with several participants saying it was the best ever.  After handing out the awards, we paddled through S-Turn, Rocky Island, and Wet Bottom as a group.  In the flatwater below Wet Bottom we performed many "stupid human tricks" including standng up in our boats, lining up for a kayak boom run, fitting five people onto a Pirouette S, and h

Downriver Squirt

1. Steve "Stro" Strothers - 39 pts
2. Jeremy Laucks - 28 pts
3. Jim Buley - 25 pts
4. Steve Graybill - 25 pts
5. Risa Shimoda - 19 pts
6. Josh T - 15 pts
7. Monique Hubshman - 12 pts

Eddyline Squirt