Percentages are based on total cash available for cash prizes. Total cash prizes available are located on this web site. All registered paddlers in a boat must complete all three stages of Tour du Teche 135 (Race 1) or all four stages of 410 de Louisiane (Race 11), and be registered in Pro Race Division to be eligible for cash prizes. All winners of cash awards to be determined by the Tour du Teche Board of Directors.
First boat to break the Record Time from Port Barre to Berwick in each class gets Bourré Pot for that class.
If no boat breaks the record time in a class, that cash will be added to next years Bourré Pot for that class.
Record time: 21:11:27
Record held by:
Rocky Caldwell, West Plains, MO; Gareth Stevens, Hubertus, WI (2012)
Record time: 20:58:36
Record held by:
Tommy Yonley, Houston, TX (October 2-4, 2015)
Record time: 18:31:43
Record held by:
Brad Pennington, Houston, TX; Joost Zeeger, Bellingham, WA (2012)
Record time: 18:59:32
Record held by:
Mark Addison, Houston, TX (2012)
Record time: 18:05:57
Record held by:
Wendell Smith, Bobby Smart, Chris Champion, Phil Bowden, Heather Harrison, R D Kisserling (2016)
First in class: 6% per paddler
Second in class: Medal
Third in class: Medal
First all female team in each pro race class: 2% per paddler
First place: Medal
Second place: Medal
Third place: Medal
In addition to cash prizes and medals, each registered paddler will receive a Tour du Teche performance shirt.
All racers will vie for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place medals in their class. A 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place youth award will be given to winners 17 years and younger in each class.
Awards -Cash prizes , Trophy or Medal
Recreation solo and tandem boats are welcome to race in the 1 mile race for awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place.
Racing division consists of four (4) classes:
Also full prizes for the racing Women (same as the Men’s classes, awards per boat)
S= single blade paddle D=double blade paddle
One registration allows you to race in all races.
The racing class, Men and Mixed Tandem S/D is one class with one start.
Course Length 3 miles (looped course, start and end at same point)
Also 1 mile looped course for recreation paddlers for medal awards.
Trophy for first place boat in each Racing division class by City of Pattterson
Medals by Tour du Teche for recreation boats, Boy Scouts, etc.
A medal will be given to all 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place class winners. No cash will be awarded for this race.
Awards will be given as boats reach the finish line.
Record time: 142:51:30
Record held by:
Jack Cover (October 2-4, 2015)
Record time: 142:43:00
Record held by:
Max Dugas; Adam Jones (October 2-4, 2015)
Record time: 124:32:17
Record held by:
David Dupree (October 2-4, 2015)
Record time: 68:51:32
Record held by:
Wendell Smith, Bobby Smart, Chris Champion, Phil Bowman, Heather Harrison (October 2-4, 2015)
Trophy, name in bronze, and for 2018 the cash prize is $250 per racer for first place.
The Jessica trophy will be awarded, by popular acclaim, to the coureur de bois who best exemplifies the bonhomie, that spirit of cooperation and good will between teams and spectators, that has set Tour du Teche apart from its beginning.
The award is named for Texan Jessica Geisinger, an unofficial coureur de bois who, despite serious disabilities, has etched herself in the hearts and minds of veteran TDT paddlers and coureurs de bois by her unflagging and cheerful presence at bridges and check points.
Each registered coureur de bois in Race 1 – 7, and Race 10 & 11, will be eligible for the award. The winner will be chosen by one vote of each registered boat and the winner will be announced Sunday at the finish line in Berwick.