The winds started to blow from the east yesterday and grew stronger throughout the day including rain at times. It was raining hard this morning and only three of the thirteen canoes went out: my crew, the Pathfinder crew and the Fort Saskatchewan Trader crew. Like yesterday it was hard work and again today we paddled for eleven hours. However today we swapped two strong paddlers into out boat for one section which made it fly. We consolidated to two crews for the next section and I finished the last two hours or so on the Pathfinder canoe with an assortment of strong paddlers including Steve and Greg from Paddle Canada 2. Richard carried the PC2 baton for the previous section while on the Ft. Saskatchewan boat. The photos show the two crews arriving at the farmer's field we imposed upon before the last section. I was still tired from the earlier six hours of paddling but the last 2+ hours was a lot of fun given the incredible speed we maintained into the wind. Our Paddle Canada boats look nice but they are not built for speed in comparison to the modern boats.
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