A racer heads for the finish in the Nanaimo Bathtub Race, which has been held annually since 1967.David Matthewman This weekend is the highlight of the month-long Nanaimo Marine Festival — the annual ...

If you lived near Kits Beach in the '90s, maybe you remember the final years of the Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race. Participants sailed the open sea in homemade bathtub boats between 1967 and 1996.

To create a musical for Nanaimo’s Canada 150 celebrations, Jessica Lowry discovered the holy grail of Bathtub Race footage. “This was footage from the original race in 1967, all black and white, ...

It has been 22 years since the bathtubs washed up on Kitsilano Beach and on Saturday they’ll make their triumphal return. Each summer from 1967 to 1996, competitors in the historic Bathtub Race would ...

The Nanaimo-to-Vancouver bathtub race used to be a big deal, summer’s counterpoint to the mass insanity of the Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day. Nanaimo’s flamboyant mayor, Frank Ney, would haul out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nanaimo's bathtub racers are on the lookout for three stolen motors after two recent incidents. The motors are worth thousands of ...

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