The first-year event featured a variety of distances, with boats ranging from solo canoes and kayaks to war canoes.

The Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce teamed up with the Adirondack Watershed Alliance, Adirondack Lakes and Trails Outfitters and MAC’S Canoe Livery to host the inaugural Celebrate Paddling Invitational. Celebrate Paddling ADK was a month-long festival organized by several area outfitters and the Northern Forest Canoe Trail to showcase the multiple paddle sport activities available in the greater Saranac Lake region.

Sunday’s 10-mile marathon went out to Oseetah Lake and back and involved more than 40 participants. Roger Gocking and Eric Young had the fastest time of the day in their tandem kayak at 1:10:38. The fastest tandem canoe was Bruce Lee and Cathy Lipski at 1:30:40. The fastest guide boat was Andrew Jillings of Hamilton College at 1:39:59. The fastest solo canoe was Terry Kent at 1:28:42 and the fastest solo kayak was Peter Jaworski in 1:31:48.

The follwing are results from the races:

A pair of Voyageur canoes paddle on Lake Flower Sunday morning during the inaugural Celebrate Paddling Invitational canoe races in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo — Justin A. Levine)

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Celebrate Paddling Invitational

Saranac Lake

Sunday’s Results

YOUTH COURSE

Rushton Trombley (Gansevoort) 3:31

Devlin Trombley (Gansevoort) 4:13

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3-MILE COURSE

Family

Labonte Family (Saranac Lake) 27:04

Hart-Legard Family (Williamstown) 27:42

Hance, Cheringten (New Haven VT) 29:10

High Kneel Canoe

Helen Schuette (Washington DC) 26:30

Becca Schuette (Washington DC) 26:30

Sprint Kayak

Youth Male

Paul Fameira (Washington DC) 21:32

Youth Female

Erin Rhodes (Washington DC) 23:15

Women

Kathleen McNamee (Washington DC) 21:31

Touring Kayak

Men

Jon Valentine 35:28

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10-MILE COURSE

GUIDEBOATS

Andrew Jillings (Clinton) 1:39:59

Gerhard Munger (Lowville) 1:46:30

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Solo Recreation

Men Under 50

Morgan Hoven (Clifton Springs) 1:28:48

Men Over 50

Joe Moore (Lake Placid) 1:30:56

John Marona (Lake Clear) 1:37:10

Chris Hoven (Clifton Springs) 1:45:56

C-1 AMATEUR

Steve Buzzell (Saranac Lake) 2:05:36

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C-1 STOCK

Men

Terry Kent (Ithaca) 1:28:42

Women

Robin Leary (Saratoga Springs) 2:25:16

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C-2 STOCK

Men Under 50

Charlie Lucia/Brian Lucia (Mechanicville) 2:13:58

Men Over 50

Bruce Johnson, Howie Dower (Hinesburg VT, Jay) 1:35:58

Mike Skivington, Glen Vandewinckel (Scottsvillle, Rochester) 1:39:35

Mixed

Scott Cayea, Sarah Robinson (Shelburne VT, Jackson WY) 1:42:15

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C-2 AMATEUR

Men

Roger Henry, Gary McLain (Rexford, Ballston Spa) 1:31:11

Peter Ross, Tim Henning (Ontario) 1:31:36

Mixed

Bruce Lee, Cathy Lipski (Port Crane) 1:30:40

Bob Cooley, Linda Cooley (Scotia) 1:33:02

Kim Greiner, Ed Greiner (Esperance) 1:33:34

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TOURING KAYAK

Men

Peter Jaworski (Utica) 1:31:48.59

James Phillips (Bergen) 1:31:48.92

Jim Sausville (Saranac Lake) 1:41:10

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Two Person Kayak

Roger Gocking, Eric Young (Saranac Lake, Mooers Forks) 1:10:38

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C-4

Mixed

DragOn (Saranac Lake) 1:30:29

Women

Blue Crusher Flowers (Saranac Lake) 1:32:58

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