Cliff Roach and I set out to paddle Mark Ceconi’s brand new Fenn Elite tandem surfski for the purposes of writing a review for surfskiracing.com. Clearly, Mark has been hanging out with his eternally optimistic elementary school students for too long, the poor trusting soul had no idea what we [...]
FESTIRAME If you look at a map of Québec, you will notice a large lake in the middle. This is Lac St-Jean, a huge fresh water inland sea, remnant of the Champlain Sea and the last ice age. The town of Alma has, for the last 37 years, organized the [...]
The cold spring continued, but at least the wind was nowhere near last year's game changing 30 mph. Race Director Bill Kuklinski Crosses Finish Line Once again, HPK was the single largest class in the event - 28 boats total, 27 men, 1 woman. Similar to reports from the front [...]
Unlike some years, I didn’t see any snow when I arrived at the old Hull Lifesaving Station. “Hi Wayne—you bring the pontoons with you?” said Gary Piantedosi. “Hi Gary, yeah, I got em, don’t leave home without em!” “Getting breezy, be a little rough out there.” “Yeah, well we’ve seen [...]
Aloha! My name is Karen Mirlenbrink, and I am the event organizer for the Shark Bite Challenge, held at Honeymoon Island State Park on April 16-17, 2011 (in conjunction with the Island Earth Days Festival). The Shark Bite Challenge features 2-days of paddling and racing. Saturday's races include 6-person Hawaiian [...]
