Classique internationale de canots de la Mauricie: arrival at race and start: HASs of landing, crowd, shells in the water. Several shots of crowd on river bank, men arriving with their racing shells on their shoulders. HAS of small crowd at landing in La Tuque, racers with canoes arriving. MLSs, LSs of racers poised for first start. Side HAMLS of large number of racers just after initial start. Several shots of starts in pairs after first day's race.