Calm seas made for a fast bathtub race in the waters off Nanaimo. Trevor Short of Ladysmith won the Great International World ...

Racers in the Great International Bathtub Race were part of the procession that went through downtown Nanaimo to Maffeo ...

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 ...

Hampton Park is located at 224 Hampton Rd. Details are available at saanich.ca/indigenousmusicfestival. A guided walk at ...

As many as 50 bathtub racers could compete, racing their super-modified, modified and stock bathtub speedboats around the ...

Veteran bathtub racer Melvin Mitchell will be sitting out of this year’s Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society World Championship ...

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.

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 ...

The Nanaimo-to-Vancouver bathtub race used to be a big deal, summer’s counterpoint to the mass insanity of the Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.

Nanaimo continues to host an annual bathtub race. This year bathtub races in English Bay will be a part of Kits Fest , a festival on Kitsilano Beach happening this weekend.

Bathtub racing took place annually between Nanaimo and Kits Beach from 1967 to 1996, with hundreds of tubs crossing the choppy waters of the Strait of Georgia. "This is a very unique event.