Friday, April 28, 2006

Toronto's new flatwater regatta course
I paddled on it twice yesterday and would estimate it's roughly 600m in length. Also, it tapers at the western end. When they published the width as 135m, they must have edited out, "at it's widest point". The lake was calm both times I paddled but it will definitely be nice to have this sheltered course at 5:45 in the morning when the waves are slapping the outside wall. It'll be interesting to see what kind of facilities they'll be putting in - Tower? Grandstand? I will try to find out.
I'm posting some photos of other courses for comparison. Don't be fooled by the perspective of the photos - the Toronto course is about 1/5th the size of these. In fact, you'll notice very few similarities between our course and these others.

Here's Malta Lake, the flatwater course in Poznan, Poland...

and Shanghai...

and of course Montreal...

No comments: