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Calm seas made for a fast bathtub race in the waters off Nanaimo. Trevor Short of Ladysmith won the Great International World ...
Nanaimo's World Championship Bathtub Race roared into its 58th year. This year's event lured 42 daring racers willing to put their hearts and bodies to the test.
A community favourite event is returning to Nanaimo, B.C. this weekend. The Nanaimo World Championship Bathtub Race kicks off ...
Racers in the Great International Bathtub Race were part of the procession that went through downtown Nanaimo to Maffeo ...
Hampton Park is located at 224 Hampton Rd. Details are available at saanich.ca/indigenousmusicfestival. A guided walk at ...
Nanaimo's Bathtub Weekend tradition was in danger of cancellation, but it has been saved, and organizers say it's going to be ...
Veteran bathtub racer Melvin Mitchell will be sitting out of this year’s Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society World Championship ...
A Vancouver Island man has written a book covering almost 50 years of a Nanaimo-based bathtub racing competition that once had a race route that stretched all the way across the Strait of Georgia and ...
McGuire said the company, Far North Holdings Ltd., will hold their first annual bathtub race on May 24 and plans are for the winner of the event to be flown to Nanaimo for this year's 48th annual ...
Nanaimo's annual bathtub race has attracted all types of competitors since the tradition began in 1967. But White is likely the only racer to do it with two left feet.
Nanaimo’s “Great International World Championship Bathtub Race” has been revving its outboard motor since 1967. Until 1996, boats raced between the Hub City and Vancouver as part of Sea Fest. After ...
The original annual bathtub races started in Nanaimo in 1967 and now competitors race customized, fiberglass, bathtub boats with outboard motors. Brad Davis has been competing for about eight years.