Rain gutter Regatta and Camp Out

Saturday September 25, 2010 at The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and fisheries: Located at 61384 Fish Hatchery Road in Lacombe.

• Campers are to arrive at 1:00 PM
• Non-Campers are to arrive at 2:00 PM
• Ran Gutter Regatta will start at 3:00 PM
• Families are responsible for their own food and drink.  Please remember it will be hot, bring enough for you and your child.  Bring food for dinner Saturday night and breakfast Sunday morning.
• Scouts should bring their full uniform with them.
• Siblings and parents are welcome to build their own boats.  There will be a race for siblings and one for parents as well.
• You and your child do not need to camp out in order to participate in the Regatta. 
• You will want to bring chairs to sit in for the Regatta and other events during the campout.

Please fill out the Medical and Media release forms, if they are not filled out and turned in, your scout will not be able to participate in the campout or the rain gutter regatta.  

If anyone has folding tables, tarps, extra tents, grills or canopies, please contact the pack via the pack email: scoutpack348@yahoo.com so that we can gauge how many we need to find.

Information about the sailboats used in the Regatta can be found at http://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/projects/3921/make-the-ultimate-raingutter-regatta-racer/.  This website tells you how to make the boats.  The kits can be found at the Army Surplus store on Natchez Dr.

After the Regatta the boys will build a fire and cook dinner and have some activities in the evening before going to bed.

Sunday morning, the boys will be making fishing poles out of bamboo poles and fishing at the ponds on the property.  The ponds are stocked with fish so they will catch a bunch, please note that it is catch and release, you will have to put the fish back but the kids will have a blast fishing in the ponds.

We are looking forward to this event.  Jim, Tommy B, John S. and others have been working very hard on the rain gutters and Jim and Tommy R. spent most of this weekend cleaning up the property and getting things ready at the campsite to make this a great experience for all of the kids.  We would like to get an approximate count of how many boys will be participating, please respond to the pack email at scoutpack348@yahoo.com.

Thanks so much and we hope to see you there!!