Kayak Events

The Olympic Kayak Club is excited to announce that we are now accepting registrations for the 2010 Puget Sound Challenge.  The 2010 Puget Sound Challenge is an approximately 150 nautical mile paddle that will go from Port Townsend to Olympia with the final paddle going into Allyn. The Puget Sound Challenge is broken up into 13 segments. To see a description of each segment, please go to www.olympickayakclub.com .  The goal of the Puget Sound Challenge is to raise money for the water trails of Washington. The two groups we support directly are The Washington Water Trails Associations and the North Kitsap Trails Association “North Kitsap's String of Pearls” water trail.
Participants can paddle any segment, or segments, anytime or all segments in one long trip. The challenge is to complete the entire course in one year. You can do this as an individual or with a group like a paddling club or kayak shop. The Olympic Kayak Club will have a scheduled course of all the segments that everyone is welcome to join us on.  A copy of the scheduled segments with the Olympic Kayak Club is posted on the www.olympickayakclub.com site.

For those of you who cannot paddle this year, but would still like to support the water trails, or if you just want to increase your chances of winning one of these kayaks, you can buy raffle tickets that will also go into the drawing for the kayaks.  Raffle tickets are available online at www.olympickayakclub.com.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure will co-host Segment 7 of the Olympic Kayak Club’s scheduled paddles on June 20. In addition to our regular Puget Sound Challenge paddlers, we will be joined that day by paddlers supporting the efforts to find a cure for breast cancer. For paddlers who wish to support this very worthwhile organization, and paddle this one segment only, the cost is $30 and it will entitle the registrant to be eligible for the kayak raffle.  Paddlers who wish to register, for this segment only, can do so online at www.olympickayakclub.com .  For more information on the work of this group, please check out The Susan G. Komen site.