So this past weekend, Basecamp put on a wakeboard show in downtown Toronto, part of the Luminatio festival. It was held right on Lake Ontario at the Harbourfront center. The theme of this years festival was water; so there were many things going on in the festival. Several bands, games, activities, and of course a wakeboard show. We arrived there saturday morning, ready to tear it up. None of us expecting the amount of chop we would later deal with. We brought down our own Basecamp kicker, which had tiny wheels drilled onto the bottom of it, not the best idea to have such tiny wheels. So eventually one of them broke off, and we had to stick a skateboard under it just to get it moving. So we eventually got that into lake Ontario.
The sun was shinning and we could not have asked for a better day, just ask scott about how burnt his neck was, and he'll tell you. Even though the riders could barely stay up let alone throw down some hammers, a few tricks were landed. That day you really needed to pack a second pair of knees. But in the end the crowd was stoked, and everyone was having a blast. That is until sunday, overall pretty bad day. We once again arrived at the Harbourfront center ready. The sun was shinning brightly for the second day in a row, we were all getting ready and set up to ride. Then we started setting up the kicker in the water when we realized there was a huge storm cloud rolling in. As soon as we get one anchor in to the water, the rain starts pouring! So we decided to pack it in for the day, and not go on with the show. We had to get the boat and kicker out of the water to get ready to go home, so me (Connor) and Jon were the ones in the boat traveling at a speed of 5 mph in death waters; with waves coming from every which way at a height of around 5 feet, just covering the front of the boat. Then we got to the boat launch at Ontario Place, only to be denied access to the launch. So then we proceed to drive the boat all the way to park lawn boat launch which for you who don't know is about 10 km going at a steady pace of 9 km/h, so overall the entire journey took around an hour and a bit. Once we got to the boat launch, the worse news continued to roll in. It turns out you cant turn to tightly around corners while pulling a trailer; scott found this out the hard way. This lead to a bent axel on a brand new trailer. But its not all bad news, when we got to the boat launch we had a pizza party picnic! (PPP). But then we returned to reality and realized we could not tow a $100,000 boat on a trailer with a bent axle. We ended up leaving the boat downtown Toronto, driving the broken trailer up to Basecamp, grabbing a new trailer, and driving back down to Toronto, getting the boat and driving back up to Basecamp. This was also all this driving back and forth started at around 8 pm. Scott was the one that did all of the driving so fell bad for him, not any of the other basecamp workers, who sat around back at camp, checking facebook, eating snacks and eventually going to their cozy, warm beds.
Overall it was great exposure for the camp, and we all had fun (on saturday).
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