The series of races sponsored by Belloord, a West Rand-based labour consultancy, has ensured regular races on the river with good attendance attracted by giveaways on entry, spot prizes as well as cash for winners of age categories, overall winners and lucky draws for all participants.
The series included a couple of compulsory races, which enabled qualifiers to be in the final draw where six boats were won together with canoeing equipment lifejackets, paddle, water drinking systems and spraydecks, making it the most viable value for money training opportunity for canoeists throughout the year.
The final race in December is a superb Dusi training event, with portages where paddlers get out of the river and run with their boats, and is extremely competitive, as a great opportunity to suss the competition for Dusi and iron out wrinkles in partnerships, with the 2014 Dusi in February, being a doubles event.
Franz Lottering from Kempton Park and Vallon Kupferberg from Boksburg are both members of the Benoni-based canoe club at Homestead dam – East Rand Kayak.
They finished the 35km Dusi training race which incorporated three running portages in two hours 43 minutes as the 21st double boat, and the second Sub Master finishers and are looking forward to a successful Dusi event.
