The Trinidad & To­ba­go Ca­noe/Kayak Fed­er­a­tion (TTCKF), in con­junc­tion with two of its mem­ber clubs, the Trinidad Surf Ski Club and the Trinidad Kayak Club host­ed a 6.4km race from Williams Bay, around Cale­do­nia Is­land and back on Sun­day. This race was a warmup for the "The Mar­itime Or­toire Riv­er Race" which will be held on Sat­ur­day Au­gust 25, in Or­toire Vil­lage, Ma­yaro. David Hack­shaw won the race in a time of 36.17 min­utes. As de­fend­ing cham­pi­on of the 21km Or­toire Riv­er Race for the past two years he will be go­ing all out to com­plete a hat­trick. Hack­shaw will face stiff com­pe­ti­tion when he faces oth­er top ath­letes such as Ryan Mendes, Jo­han Sydow, Michele Boc­cara, Nigel Wall and John Hors­fall. Michel Boc­cara placed sec­ond in a time of 40.52 min­utes and in third place was 17-year-old Sher­lon Pierre in 41.20 min­utes. Pierre was the win­ner of the 7 km race in last year's Or­toire event and he will be de­fend­ing his ti­tle against many ex­pe­ri­enced pad­dlers like Mer­ryl See Tai, Dex­ter Ma­hadeo and Glenn Wilkes to name a few. Wilkes is a vet­er­an in kayak­ing and he has pad­dled around the is­land of Trinidad on two oc­ca­sions. Sev­er­al young pad­dlers from 6th Trinidad Sea Scouts of St. Mary's Col­lege will be vy­ing for glo­ry as well as some drag­on boat pad­dlers and 'Hard­core' par­tic­i­pants who are chal­leng­ing them­selves in this kayak event for the first time. In ad­di­tion to the two races, there will be fun kayak­ing for all from 10am to 3pm. One of the goals of the TTCKF is to en­cour­age the par­tic­i­pa­tion of the pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary school chil­dren in the sport of kayak­ing with a view to iden­ti­fy­ing tal­ent for com­pet­i­tive pad­dling.

De­tails of the up­com­ing Or­toire Race can be found on Face­book at Trinidad & To­ba­go Ca­noe/Kayak Fed­er­a­tion or email ttckf­board@gmail.com