2010 Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby!

The 21st annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby will be held at the Nippon Canal at the end of Marine Drive on Sunday, May 23rd.

We are pleased to honor our longtime volunteers and supporters Bub and Alice Olsen by renaming the VID race, "The Bub and Alice Olsen Honorary VID Race". Bub Olsen is a longtime OMC Foundation board member and sells ducks inside Swain's every year. He is one of the all time top duck salesman with close to 16,000 ducks sold during the 20 years as captain of the Quacker Backers team. His wife Alice is also deeply dedicated to the OMC Foundation cause. They host "Quackers and Cheese" parties and bring their motor home down to the race site on race day for the "Bub and Alice Olsen VID Party"

Please join us for a wonderful day of sun, fun and ducks at our Kid’s Pavilion and great food provided by Toga’s, The Dog Cart and Just Jump! Inflatable Rentals.

The generous people and businesses of our community join in making the GOPDD memorable for everyone involved. It is also an event in which thousands of people participate: The Duck Tab in the PDN and Sequim Gazette reaches 40,000 people; more than 30,000 people buy ducks; hundreds of people watch and listen to the duck race, over 250 people sell ducks; 150 people produce the event; 45 people win prizes and 1 family won a new Toyota Truck! No matter what level of involvement, everyone has fun, everyone remembers the race, and everyone will recognize your support of this great event.

In 2009:

• 30,448 ducks were adopted in a market of 70,000 people in the Sequim-Port Angeles-Forks area. Our race is the most successful per capita duck race in the world. Every year, over 200 are staged nationally and internationally. Great American Duck Races of Phoenix, AZ awarded OMCF “Racer Of The Year” for the 1998 and 2000 races.
• Over $1,700,000 raised over 20 years for charities including the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, the Sequim Radiation Oncology Center, the Forks Soroptimists, the Lions Club, Kiwanis, the Sequim Boys & Girls Club and other Sequim Rotary projects.