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Texas Water Safari: The World's Toughest Canoe Race

Texas Water Safari: The World's Toughest Canoe Race

Spain, Bob
Emshoff, Joy

Hardcover

Series: Pam and Will Harte Books on Rivers, Sponsored by the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, T

FictionBiographies GeneralCanoeing & Kayaking

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ISBN10: 1648430589
ISBN13: 9781648430589
Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
Published: Apr 21 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.85
Height: 0.94 Width: 9.21 Depth: 10.24
Language: English
In the summer of 1962, Frank Brown and Big Willie George launched a 133-pound motorboat--with no motor--into the San Marcos River and headed for the Texas coast. Over the next three weeks they paddled downriver, wrestling through log jams and fighting off mosquitoes on their 337-mile journey to Corpus Christi. The following year, Brown staged a canoe race that followed the same route, billed as The Texas Water Safari--The Toughest Boat Race in the World. Contestants had to carry all their provisions with them from the start and could receive no assistance during the competition. One hundred and twenty-six men and one woman, all Texans, lined up for the grueling race. Some boats sank at the start, others were wrecked on the river, and some people dropped out from exhaustion or injury, while others failed to make the time deadlines and were disqualified. Of the 58 vessels that started the race, only two arrived at the finish line in Corpus Christi.

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