Good day to race a duck

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 8:45am

Time, tides and rubber duckies wait for no man.

On Friday, July 11 the tide wasted no time in carrying hundreds of rubber duckies into the Damariscotta River during the annual Pemaquid Watershed Association rubber ducky race in Damariscotta and Newcastle.

Crowds lined Business Route 1 as the ducks were released from a little way upriver. What started as an amorphous yellow blob soon became a line of rubber duckies bobbing and being pulled along by a strong current.

2014 Ducky Race Winners

1. Linda Shaffer
2. Maureen Stormont
3. Carole Fowler
4. Owen Sullivan
5. Sydney Lench
6. Billy Claflin
7. Bruce Hoffman
8. Doug Marshall
9. Toni Crouch
10. TJ Boisseau
11. Elwin Guthrie
12. Gavin Lincoln
Pokey (AKA last duck in): James Miner