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Duck Race Day-of-Race Volunteers

Event Chair: Michael Cottam

DETAILS:

Thanks for helping out at the Duck Race! Here's some info on Race Day.

• Boom layout instructions
• Carl Salvo is in charge of duck collection: drift boats, kayaks, and boom setup
• Meet at Pageant Park (location #1 on the map) at 9AM
• If you have a kayak, please bring it (and a lifejacket)
• If you want to help in one of the drift boats, you don't need to bring anything
• Fishing nets will be supplied for scooping ducks
• Firehose boom setup instructions (near Galveston Bridge)
• Brian Stallcop is in charge of the firehose boom setup
• Meet at Galveston Bridge at 9AM
• Kristie Schmitt is in charge of Food Trucks, Bounce Houses, ticket sales, emcee, and the RV
• Brian Hauer is in charge of coordinating everything to do with tickets sold and physical duck numbers and prize winners

Map of Volunteer Locations

1. Meet here with kayaks, drift boats, and to set up the boom
2. This is where we scoop the ducks out after the finish

Duck Collection Rules

• all kayaks/boats downstream of the finish line before the first duck reaches the footbridge
• boats must not touch the boom
• 1 person from one drift boat extracts ducks that cross the line, and place them in the crates in order
• once the 2 crates are full (48 ducks), blow the air horn--this is the signal to the volunteers that they can begin collecting the ducks that are PAST the finish line
• no duck may be touched by anyone except the 1 person extracting winners until the air horn sounds
• collecting ducks: while waiting for the air horn, stay downstream of all of the ducks
• once the air horn blows, DO NOT open the boom--the 2 drift boats at the finish line need to scoop all the ducks still inside the boom up and put them in their boats
• kayakers and canoeists downstream fill their boats, and if they're full, go to a drift boat to empty them so they can get more
• boom may be opened after there's no more ducks upstream of the finish line

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