Westport CT - The 1st Great Race was held in 1976, as part of America’s bicentennial celebration. It lasted a few years. In 1991, Sunrise Rotary resurrected it. It was an all-hands-on deck competition. Kayaks, canoes, dinghies, windsurfers, catamarans — and everything else, from Tom Sawyer rafts, to boats in the shape of Smurfs and Elvis, to science experiment failures — were launched from the library park. They made their way to Cockenoe Island.
Around 1999 the race was suspended, only to be resurrected as a Duck Race, where small numbered rubber ducks raced down stream
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