NYMCRA Team Finishes First in Class in Yukon River Quest By John Vermilyea During one of our episodic mind wanderings over the course of the 2011 Yukon 1000 canoe race, we came up with a question that would burn in my mind for years: Why were there no C4's in the Yukon? A tripping canoe of 23’ designed for four paddlers, it seemed to be a perfect craft to paddle and even race the Yukon River in. Given the popularity of the C4 class in New York State, I was relatively surprised that the class didn't even seem to exist in the Yukon Territory. Thus began several subsequent years of emails querying various board members and petitioning race committees' about the possible future inclusion of C4's in Yukon races. We were turned away several times before finally achieving success in August 2016 following the success of adding a SUP class. We were being given a chance to enter our C4's in the 2017 Yukon River Quest, a 440 mile race from Whitehorse, YT to Dawson C
