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Home Newspaper of Halfcon Hills Choral Messiah page 20 More craziness page THE HERALD Wednesday April Z1M Page 11 SECOND SECTION Record entrants Crazy Boaters create chaos and fun Eight abort days after the Credit River spilled over its bank during an annual deluge of Ice floes and rushing water a torrent of another kind canoes and Crazy Boats floated into Glen Williams and washed up on the banks at the Main Street bridge In all courageous people pa A K apiece for the privilege of floating paddling swimming down the Credit Saturday afternoon some with success than others Jack Lee of the organizing Georgetown told The Herald Monday that the entry fees contributed about toward Jaycees and Jaycettes community projects This years Crazy Boat Race was the most successful one yet despite the water being low in the Credit and the weather being bad In the morning Mr Lee commented Entries In the canoe class were down this year with canoes taking part compared with last year Jaycette Diane remarked that one entry in the canoe class came all the way from North Bay The first landfall at the Main Street bridge In the Glen was made by two brothers and M competing in the canoe class While there were fewer canoes In this year race the of other crafts were up slderably Overall crafts in the other five classes were this year ai opposed to last year Winners in Class the Crazy Boats were D Mackintosh Knight and G Hall in the Green Dragon In Class Boats of all Types a Toronto crew placed first Tom Swan Dave Mitchell M McDonell and Dave were the crew of the fleet vessel Class D was composed of Crazy Craft from Serv clubs The fastest of these was entered by the of Frenchman Bay northeast of Peterborough Manning the craft were and Tom Williamson Perhaps the most colorful entry was the winner of the Commercial Crazy Craft category the Orange Blossom Special sponsored by Nell Music Centre Four ladles Mary Kay Miller Helen Debrou Linda Bastcdo and Vicki piloted their craft down river dressed in matching orange and yellow costumes barely getting their feet wet Class the Race of Champions was won by Ron Wodhams Paul Cunningham Howie Jacobs and Joe Campbell in a boat called the Green Monster Eater Class entrants are generally more seaworthy and the fellows in them arc out to win Diane Penrice says W for the best present craft were Jim Stamp In Class on his craft called the Tricycle Walter Noble and friends in Class D on the Up Club craft and Scott Terry and Jeff Haines with Jim Carmlchacl in Class aboard the Silver Shark Mr Lee of the Jaycecs estimates that 5 people viewed the race all along the river The victory dance held at the Acton Legion was also a big success with people attending The race was slightly marred when Mike and his brother became separated from their boat in Terra Mr was fortunate that the Up CB Club was on hand as well as Peel Regional Police Chief Doug Burrows to pull him out of the river Mr Gavigan was wrapped in blanke a by the chief and sent to Peel Memorial Hospital suffering from exposure Jack Lee said the CBcrs have been very helpful in past years and were especially appreciated this year for the patrols they keep up and down the river