Overturned crafts became a familiar site at Six Mile Falls Saturday during the 43rd Annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race. (Photo by Skip Hawkes)Saturday morning in Kenduskeag Village, the 43rd Annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race kicked of at approximately 8:30 a.m. A final count of 510 boaters participated in the 16.5mile race from Kenduskeag to the downtown Bangor finish line.
(Photo by Skip Hawkes)Five crafts were released every one minute with the final boaters taking off around 9:30 a.m. The low water slowed things down along the course, with the first official participants coming through Six Mile Falls at approximately 10:15 a.m.
(Photo by Skip Hawkes)Trevor MacLean of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia was the overall winner of the race, the fifth time in eight races MacLean has won. He paddled his kayak in 2 hours and 17.58 minutes to the finish line. Robert Lang, from Rothesay, New Brunswick, finished second in the race with a time of 2:22.45. Lang, an 11 time Kenduskeag Stream champion, has finished second two years in a row.
(Photo by Skip Hawkes)Steve Woodward (Cumberland, ME) and Jeff Owen (Orono, ME) were the top canoeists, finishing first with a time of 2:29.08.
All of the photos in the photo gallery were shot from atop Six Mile Falls bridge.
