{"id":1134,"date":"2010-07-12T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:44:40","slug":"fran-schnarr-memorial-open-water-swim-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"FRAN SCHNARR MEMORIAL OPEN WATER SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1140\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1140\" title=\"FSswim_008\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_008.jpg\" alt=\"Kayakers lead swimmers at start of the race\" width=\"640\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_008.jpg 640w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_008-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayakers lead swimmers at start of the race<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several NACK paddlers volunteered Sunday July 11 as individual escort craft safely guiding swimmers around the waters of Huntington Bay NY for the Annual Fran Schnarr\u00a0 Metropolitan Swimming Open Water Championship.  Events included distances of 5K and 10K (3.1 and 6.2 miles) along with youth and masters events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1141\" title=\"FSswim_013\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_013.jpg 640w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/FSswim_013-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paddlers carried flotation to give to a swimmer in the event they were in need of assistance but their main function was to act as a guide to the swimmer.\u00a0 Because of the great distances involved and rough water the buoys marking the course aren&#8217;t always visible to a swimmer. It&#8217;s up to the guide kayaker to keep them on course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Dara1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1174\" title=\"Dara1\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Dara1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Dara1.jpg 448w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Dara1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Championship is an annual event and there is always a need for kayaks to help guide swimmers.\u00a0 For more information and Race Results check out the <strong><a title=\"Huntington Bay Swim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huntswim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Bay Swim Website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several NACK paddlers volunteered Sunday July 11 as individual escort craft safely guiding swimmers around the waters of Huntington Bay NY for the Annual Fran Schnarr\u00a0 Metropolitan Swimming Open Water Championship. Events included distances of 5K and 10K (3.1 and 6.2 miles) along with youth and masters events. Paddlers carried flotation to give to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}