Stand Up Paddle (SUP) 2012 Race Calendar

Featuring photograph by The Delta Bohemian

A Photo of the Year Contest was conducted by Supconnect.com. The calendar was created to give paddle boarders a tool to help them organize their schedule of events; Magical Madge submitted a photograph taken by Poor William.

COVER OF STAND UP PADDLE RACE CALENDAR 2012

The photo was taken after local paddle enthusiast Driftwood Johnnie Ruskey, owner and operator of Quapaw Canoe Company, invited The DB to accompany him and his Mighty Quapaw apprentices on their encounter with British adventurer Dave Cornthwaite, who was in the process of paddle boarding the entire length of the Mississippi River.

Ruskey and the Quapaws joined Dave and his RAF pilot brother Andy Cornthwaite for a bit of river trash pickup before the Brits headed south toward the Gulf of Mexico. Ruskey joined him days later for the final coast into the gulf.

The picture selected for November was taken from a pier jutting out near the Helena Harbor. Magical Madge, Poor William, and notable Quapaw assistant Ellis Coleman were at pier’s edge as the nine paddlers made their way from the harbor into the meandering and murky channel of the mighty Mississippi River.

While Coleman sent messages and missives to the Nine with the beating of a drum and Native American sounding incantations designed to remind the paddlers that supplication for the “river to be with them” was being made on their behalf, Poor William was stretching his lens to catch a sight not seen before on our stretch of the Father of Waters.

The paddlers from left to right are as follows: Dave Cornthwaite, John Ruskey with his precious “littlest adventurer” daughter Emma-Lou, Andy Cornthwaite, and Mighty Quapaw’s James “Woody” Sykes, Jerry “Boo” Jones, Darius “Daredevil” Jurden, Makevious “Dinky” Jones, and Jeremy “Ba-Ba” Jones.

CLICK HERE to view more photographs and a video of Cornthwaite’s visit to the Mississippi Delta.

CLICK HERE to view John Ruskey’s photographs and a video documentary by Dave himself at the conclusion of his journey.

Interested in a copy of the calendar? Go to http://supventure.com/

Original photograph taken by Billy Howell of The Delta Bohemian – now featured on the month of November in the SUP RACE CALENDAR 2012.

November page in the SUP RACE WALL CALENDAR 2012

Photo credits in SUP RACE CALENDAR 2012. Sweet.

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