Clear Lake Paddle Fest

by Jeremy Nicholson - NorthCentral Regional Rep

2025 clearly, paddle fest was a blast! After missing the event last year due to itlost a sponsorship, it came back this year in a great way! New sponsor and organizers made it a fun event with a new course that was challenging and exciting to watch. More of a technical race, it ended up being a five lap race course where each lap equaled a mile, and consisted of five bouy turns within that mile! There was also a 3 mile and 1 mile version as well for new or less experienced paddlers. With lots of great paddles from up in the Twin Cities area, it made for quite the show of racing! With so many different types of board companies represented (Infinity,Starboard,JP Australia), there was lots to play on afterwards with everybody swapping boards and trying out different companies shapes, sizes and widths. 

Weather was beautiful and couldn’t ask for more fun event, excited for next year, and hope it grows to be a staple event here in the Midwest!