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Teams of engineering students from all over the country came to Hyrum Lake Saturday to race the boats they constructed from concrete. (Brian Wolfer/Special to the Standard-Examiner)

Concrete canoes float engineering students to victory

Last updated Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 6:15am

HYRUM — A concrete canoe race is not about whose canoe sinks fastest.

The canoe race at Hyrum Dam was the centerpiece of the Rocky Mountain American Society of Civil Engineers regional conference in Logan on Saturday. The concrete canoe races are part of the oldest civil engineering competitions in the country.

Concrete that is used to make a canoe is more complicated than the concrete poured for the foundation of a house. Concrete here is made from cement and may also include tiny glass beads, sand and sometimes Styrofoam.

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3 different collages race their concrete canoe's on the lake. Each team built their canoes and had different construction methods and weight specs. At Hyrum Lake in Hyrum. On April 6, 2013 (Brian Wolfer Special to the STANDARD-EXAMINER)

Regional Concrete Canoe Competition

Brian Wolfer, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 4:36pm

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Michael Richard Smith lights a cigarette while speaking with members of the media on a wharf in Boston Harbor, in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. The 49-year-old Maine native said Tuesday that he’s been paddling the waters of metro Boston since at least late summer with all of his possessions aboard a 14-foot, 40-year-old aluminum canoe that he patches with duct tape when necessary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Man living on canoe in Boston Harbor

Bridget Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 10:46am

BOSTON — They say no man is an island, but Michael Richard Smith has been creating his own floating homes in Boston Harbor.

The Coast Guard and Boston police are keeping an eye on the unconventional camper who has been tying his canoe to small offshore docks in the city’s inner harbor and pitching his tent to sleep at night.

The 49-year-old Maine native said Tuesday he’s been paddling the waters of metro Boston since October with all his possessions aboard a 14-foot, 40-year-old aluminum canoe he patches with duct tape when necessary.

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U.S. canoe-kayak moves headquarters to Oklahoma City

Jeff Latzke The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 7:50pm

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The national governing body for Olympic canoeing and kayaking is moving its headquarters to Oklahoma City.

USA Canoe/Kayak CEO Joe Jacobi announced Tuesday that the group's offices will move from Charlotte, N.C., to the site where the sports held their 2008 Olympic trials for flatwater events.

Oklahoma City has become a hub for rowing in the United States after a riverbed that sat dry for decades was redeveloped about a decade ago. A series of boathouses are being built along the Oklahoma River just east of downtown, and another $57 million will be spent in the next few years on further improvements, including a whitewater course.

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William Clark's descendants Peyton 'Bud' Clark, left, and Carlota 'Lotsie' Holton, right, walks with Lewis and Clark historian Roger Wendlick Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, at Cape Disappointment State Park, near Ilwaco, Wash. Back in 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stole a canoe from native Americans living on the Pacific Coast. More than 200 years later, Clark's descendants are making amends to the Indian's descendants by having a 36-foot replica built for them. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Capt. Clark's descendants make amends to tribe

Nigel Duara The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 10:22am

LONG BEACH, Wash. -- After completing their journey west and spending a wet and wretched winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis prepared to head home. There was just one problem: They were short a canoe.

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