Press Release

April 16, 2004
San Francisco, CA

The "Futura Challenge" was announced today, a 24-hour endurance World Record challenge solo kayak, non-stop race to be held on the Yukon River in Yukon, Canada.

The "Futura Challenge" was announced today, a 24-hour endurance World Record challenge solo kayak, non-stop race to be held on the Yukon River in Yukon, Canada.

The current distance registered by the Guinness Book of World Records is 327 km (203 miles) in 24 hours by Ian Adamson on the Colorado River in 1997, with an unofficial record of 349 km (217 miles) set on the Teslin and Yukon Rivers in 1998, also by Adamson paddling a Futura Blade surf ski.

Adamson and Jerome Truran, the defending solo kayak champion from the 2003 460 mile Yukon River Quest, will square off on the morning of June 20th at Lower Lake Laberge on the Yukon River down stream from the town of Whitehorse. If conditions are good, they expect to paddle to a point below Fort Selkirk, over 220 miles down stream from the start.

The race is being promoted by Futura Surf Skis, a Californian manufacturer of performance canoes and kayaks, in association with Yukon River Marathon Paddling Association, organizers of the annual Yukon River Quest.

For more information visit www.geocities.com/ultrapaddling , www.yukonriverquest.com/index.htm , and www.surfskis.com , or e-mail ian0829a@boulder.net