‘A little bit of everything,’ was how one competitor was overheard referring to the conditions at this year’s Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race, in Westport CT. The ‘L2L’, as it’s affectionately known to the coolest of the cool in paddler lingo, is a fourteen mile total out and back course that launches [...]
The venue was moved to the Narragansett Boat House in Providence, RI due to the impending storm. It never materialized. So some of the Best open ocean rowers in the Country had to rely on their flatwater skills for the 10 mile, no wind, super flat race today. Click to [...]
Despite the predictive poor weather from the storm “Bill”, the weather was fantastic, sunny and flat. Mike McDonough(Race Director did a super job with his organization of the race providing chase boat, setting turn buoys, providing laminated charts of the course, big race numbers, and had expert help from his wife, [...]
One of the nice things about the Milford Race is that Blake Conant, the Race Director, makes you feel so welcome when you show up for the race so the karma is great from the beginning. This year’s race had a good showing of OC paddlers and there were actually [...]
Joe Glickman off a sub par Blackburn Challenge due to the flu was feeling 100% today and he walloped the local boys by 5 minutes leading from the get go. Tim Dywer, host, was on his home turf so he wanted to have a good show despite the extra pressure [...]