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Canoa is one of the most beautiful Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean beaches. The ridge extends over 20km providing a gorgeous scenic across the coast line. The take off "El Nido" (The Nest) is close to the local town of Canoa, and holds a height of +/- 120 meters above sea level.

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Flying site

Canoa is located in the beach at the Pacific ocean. While flying you can enjoy the beautiful views of this magical place and the surroundings.
The take off called The Nest is a private property owned by the local pilots, situated close to the town and to a lot of touristic beatiful places.

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  • Class 1
  • Class 1 Sport

Event info

Canoa is one of the most beautiful Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean beaches. The ridge extends over 20km providing a gorgeous scenic across the coast line. The take off "El Nido" (The Nest) is close to the local town of Canoa, and holds a height of +/- 120 meters above sea level.

The ridge along with the constant sea breeze creates the perfect environment for speed flying. To put simple, this is where your gliders performance is put to the test.

Flying site

Canoa is located in the beach at the Pacific ocean. While flying you can enjoy the beautiful views of this magical place and the surroundings.
The take off called The Nest is a private property owned by the local pilots, situated close to the town and to a lot of touristic beatiful places.
The place offers a fine flying with ceiling of up to 700 m ASL and prevailing south winds.
There were many hang gliding competition held in this place:
See videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEi8kU2rvww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypbtyH6nDRc

Take off - 165 m ASL - datum WGS 84 S 00.350377 W 080.44362
The launch is spacious. 30deg. slope. Connected by a dirt road.

Oficial Landing - on the beach. 11 m ASL , S00.47535, W 80.45325 beside the asphalt road
While flying must observe air traffic rules. No Airspace restrictions

The history of hang gliding in ECUADOR dates back to the early 70's with pioneers as Tony Gittes and Eduardo Alvear in QUITO the capital City. It was in 1976 they both started to learn him self. At the same time they begun to teach to more enthusiatic friends and opened more takeoffs as the Picincha mountain with a 10000 ft asl take off in the ANDES. This place was used for more than 20 years. Then later the new generation began to discover new flying sites at sea level and in the Andes also.
The climate of the region results from the interaction of its cold ocean current called Humboldt and hot ocean current called El Niño This place all year around flyable, but the parfect months are between June and December

You can use any place along the beach as Landing zone in high or low tide

Selection and entry fee

English:
$40 until September 30, 2016
$50 until October 31, 2016
$60 from November 01, 2016

All international pilots are exempt from the previous statements. Payment of $40 must be made until one day prior to the start of the competition.

Español:
$40 hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2016
$50 hasta el 31 de octubre de 2016
$60 desde el 01 de noviembre de 2016

Los pilotos extranjeros son exentos a las anteriores indicaciones, deben pagar el valor de $40 dólares americanos un día antes de la competencia.

Cuenta de ahorros Produbanco
12052106239
Rafael Arcos
1705986352
Enviar un mail con el comprobante del deposito a cualquier de los mails de los organizadores.

Prize fund and scoring categories

Open Class: Any type of Hang Glider
Sport Class: Kingposted Glider.

Speed Flying & Spot Landing.

Closing Ceremony and Awards: November 5, 2016 (Last Day of Competition)

General schedule

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016:
11:00 - 18:00 (Practice Day or Free Flying)
20:00 - 22:00 ( Mandatory Pilots Meeting,Pilot registration and Opening Ceremony)

Thursday, Nov 3, 2016
11:00 - 18:00 (Day 1 of Competition)

Friday, Nov 4, 2016
11:00 - 18:00 (Day 2 of Competition)

Saturday, Nov 5, 2016
11:00 - 18:00 (Day 3 of Competition)
20:00 - 22:00 (Closing Ceremony and Awards)

Daily schedule

09:00 Daily Briefing (If needed)
11:30 Task Committee and Safety committee briefing (at takeoff)
12:30 Pilots Briefing- Weather Briefing (at take off)
14:00 - 18:00 Race
20:00 - 21:30 Report Back and Track Downloads
22:00 Day Results Published.

Accommodation and Activities

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g1023820-Canoa_Manabi_Province-Hotels.html

How to get here

San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina
Canoa Ecuador

Plane

Equador international airports are Quito www.aeropuertoquito.aero and Guayaquil www.tagsa.aero.

Bus

Every 30 minutes there is a bus connection for south with San Vicente, Bahia de Caraquez or Tosagua. From Bahia there are 4 busses daily that leave to Quito (two in the morning (6:30AM, 9AM) and two in the evening). There is a direct bus that goes from Quito to Canoa, it leaves at 11:30 PM from Quitumbe in the South of Quito. You arrive to Canoa between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning. The bus that leaves from Canoa to Quito leaves at 9:45 PM and arrives to Quito beteen 4:00 and 5:00 AM too. It is strongly recommended that you buy the tickets one day before you travel so you can make your ride as planned. Each ticket costs 11$.
If you're arriving from Guayaquil, take a quick taxi from the airport to the Terminal Terrestre bus station. From there, Reina del Camino, Cocatur, or Cooperativa offer a range of daily buses. Most go to Bahia/San Vicente and either take the bus or a 15-20 min taxi ($6-8) to Canoa. It's perfectly possible that a bus operator will switch you to a colectivo bus (versus a directo) in Portoviejo that will then pass through Canoa.
Source: http://wikitravel.org/en/Canoa

Car

It takes about 6 hours to get to Canoa from Quito (376 km via highway 20).
It takes 4 h30 min to get to Canoa from Guayaqil (285 km via road 482).

Downloads

Waypoint files

Organizers

Canoa Open Orgcommittee
mario.arcosziemer@gmail.com

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Canoa 2016

Class 1

  1. Jacob Espinosa (6416)
  2. Rafael Arcos (1964)
  3. Andre Arcos (1)

Class 1 results

Class 1 Sport

  1. Fausto Arcos (5)
  2. Aajonathan AaLarenas (7)
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Class 1 Sport results

Tasks and results

Task 1

03 Nov, 2016

Class 1 Sport — 22.9 km — Race to goal

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03 Nov, 2016

Class 1 — 33.1 km — Race to goal

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Task 2

04 Nov, 2016

Class 1 — 15.4 km — Race to goal

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Task 2

04 Nov, 2016

Class 1 Sport — 12.5 km — Race to goal

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Task 3

05 Nov, 2016

Class 1 — 44.9 km — Race to goal

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Task 3

05 Nov, 2016

Class 1 Sport — 22.7 km — Race to goal

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