Mobile Coastal Rowing Centre
Project Description
The project is to establish a coastal touring centre with the objective of increasing coastal rowing in Southern Ontario.
The proceeds from this fundraising will be
used for the following cause(s):
The aim of this proposal is to gather enough money to fund a mobile coastal centre which is a coastal trailer carrying at least three coastal quads or two coastal quads and two coastal doubles and associated equipment such as oars, PFDs, a trolley,and safety equipment. The Barrie Rowing Club owns two coastal quads, but needs the trailer to transport the boats. In addition, an additional coastal vessel or two is required to give a capacity of 14-15 rowers. The mobile coastal centre will be used for tours, marathons, and regattas on Ontario's Great Lakes as well as other larger lakes, e.g., Simcoe and Couchiching.
How this project will assist in promoting
or developing amateur sport on a national
level.
Barrie is located just north of Canada's most populated concentration of population around the Western end of Lake Ontario. Barrie is also on Lake Simcoe and around 40 km from Georgian Bay. Georgian Bay contains Georgian Bay Islands National Park and a World Biosphere Reserve with 30,000 islands. There is a marked navigation channel from the Trent-Severn Canal to the north sore of Lake Huron. Yet Georgian Bay is largely unknown to coastal rowers. This is a great opportunity to complement the small clusters of coastal quad rowing in the Salish Sea, in Saguenay, and in Atlantic Canada. We escpect all forms of coastal rowing to 'take off' with the advent of coastal rowign at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Also we can expect national and regional coastal tours, marathons, and regattas in Canada to develop as occur now in Europe, so we need this equipment in Ontario.
