Canton Canoe Weekend's Rushton Races
Race Course Description
(C-1, C-2, Recreational, Relay)

Driving Directions
Practice on the Course
Awards

C-1 Men's Pro Championships Course (14 miles) This event annually draws the top marathon paddlers in North America. They come to compete for the championship, the prize money and find out where they stand in the World Class Rankings. The course is on mostly flat water on the Grasse River. The race starts with 1 mile downriver leg to a buoy turn, return to the start and from that point to the finish follow the C-1 Marathon 12 mile course described below.

C-1 Women's Pro Course Discontinued

C-1 Marathon Amateur Course: The course is 12 miles long, on mostly flat water. It is an upriver start from Taylor Park to a buoy turn at 3 miles at an old railroad bridge abutment. At the 2.5-mile mark there is a 50yard stretch of boulders widely spaced across the river. After the buoy turn paddlers return the 3 miles down river to Taylor Park and continue another 1 mile to the mouth of the Little River. They then turn right, going 2 miles up Little River to a buoy, return 2 miles downstream to the Grasse River turn left (upstream) and return the 1-mile to Taylor Park and the finish.

C-2 Pro Course: This race follows the same 14 mile course as the C-1 Pro Men.

C-2 Marathon Amateur Course follows the same course as the C-1 Amateur Marathon course.

Recreation Race Course: The course is 5 miles long, with upstream and downstream legs. Paddlers start with a 1.5-mile upstream leg from Taylor Park, turn around a buoy, paddle downstream for 2.5 miles (passing Taylor Park), turn around a buoy near the mouth of the Little River, and return 1 mile to the finish at Taylor Park.

Recreation Relay Race Course: In this unique event, a team of 4 - 6 paddlers takes turns paddling their canoe on the three sections (legs) of the course. The first leg is 1.5 miles, the second is 1.0 miles and the third is 0.5 mile. The entire race is within sight of the start-finish area at Taylor Park. Each team must have at least four paddlers and may have up to six.
Only Recreational Canoes are allowed
1st The first two paddlers do a loop course, upstream approximately 1200 yds to a buoy turn, go downstream 100 yds beyond the start to a second buoy turn and finish upstream to the transition area on the beach. 2nd They then turn the canoe over to the second pair of paddlers who go upstream appromimately 780 yds, then downstream 100 yds beyond the start to a second buoy turn and finish upstream to the transition area on the beach. 3rd The third pair of paddlers does a 340yd upstream leg, then downstream 100 yds beyond the start to a second buoy turn and finish upstream at the beach. All transitions are done on the sand beach at Taylor Park.