A smaller group of both Americans and Canadians appeared to take part Sunday in this year’s unsanctioned St. Clair River float down.

Kathleen Getty, the Canadian Coast Guard’s deputy superintendent for search and rescue in the Great Lakes sector, said Sunday afternoon it was one of the smallest float downs she has seen in recent years.

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“We’ve probably had only, maybe, 250 people floating down,” Getty said at about 4 p.m. It began at noon.

“The winds are keeping people away, I think,” with U.S. floaters in particularly, “having a hard time getting off the shore,” she said. “The water’s pretty rough out on the lake.”

There are no injuries reported as of 4 p.m. and no U.S. floaters forced ashore in Canada by the wind, Getty said.

During the unsanctioned event held the

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