Longest river race in France: Dordogne intégrale 130 km/81 miles

[Pierre]

Dear all, hello

here a video about a beautiful ( but very long) river race... Overall winners by 8:22 hours, fastest SUP abt 10:15... my self at 23rd, 11:41 ...  ... latest abt 14 hrs. shallow rapids ( not much water means beware your fin box...), head wind, rain...

here a video/ 

[Area 10]

Great vid, thanks for sharing.

And thanks also for the subtitles.

Impressive growth in the number of SUPs. Given the discussions here about the future of racing, it will be interesting to see how many there are next year. My guess is that numbers at events like this will continue to grow.

[JEG]

nice place.
but I would bring my worse board and fin to this event 

[Pierre]

definitely need to improve fin boxes,with retractable fins... one racer arranged such a system but the best should be a pivoting fin in a daggerboard box or such thing. Some surf skis participated but replaced bottom rudder by a foldable tail rudder. I used my last multihull SUP ( see post in "the shape shack") and broken my carbon rudder shaft after about 15 miles... finished with a piece of rope to attach rudder, lost at least 30 mins with that trouble...

[yugi]

I thought one could use a river floppy fin for the first section and then at some point there are no more rapids and one can switch fin's to a regular one.

I'd love to do it and discover the area but is way too early in the season for me to do 120km/80m. A few local friends do it and love it.

[Dusk Patrol]

Hey Pierre

The video link is not appearing in your post. For me at least. 

If it is truly gone, can you repost?

Thanks!

[Pierre]

Hey Pierre

The video link is not appearing in your post. For me at least. 

If it is truly gone, can you repost?

Thanks!

hello

and U-barrel: 

I am at abt 1:00 mins and 7:52 with my bug...

[viatormundi]

I participated in that race. The scenery is amazing. The SUP crowd is getting bigger every year. The organisation is good in some ways but lack enough food and replenishments etc in the stations. Most of the participants use inflatable boards since they don't get destroyed easily and when the current is strong the speed difference is not so huge.