Team SurfskiRacing.com Chris(web master) and myself will be reviewing the 2012 Nelo Vintage in the WWR construction(30lbs), a Nelo Vintage in the E construction at 23lbs, and the pure flat water surf ski, the Ted Van Dusen Mohican. It will probably be a month before we get everything posted but [...]
SURFSKIRACING.COM series is in its third year sponsored by Stellar Kayaks and Surfskis. This years winner by a large margin was Borys Markin, a former Olympic paddler. The series was the best of 4 races vice 5 since one race was dropped from the series(Jamestown Counter Revolution). Bory's made the [...]
With my choice of an ocean race or a flat water race, 90% of the time I choose ocean hands down. However, with my newly purchased Ted Van Dusen Mohican, I could not wait to race the Holyoke 6 mile on the Connecticut River hosted by Mark and Alicia Wendolowski. [...]
Holyoke Rows Holyoke Cup Canoe and Kayak Race’s Saturday September 29, 2012 Registration: $10.00 at Holyoke Rows Boathouse from 12:00 - 1:00 Start: 1:30 PM Sharp Distance: 10K racing, 6K recreational and 1K Youth Race Classes: Recreational and Racing classes for all types of Canoes and Kayaks, Adult, Novice and Youth Course: Loop course [...]
Too late, we realized our blunder; we had cut inside of the island we were supposed to go ‘round, having fallen prey to the dreaded ‘lighthouse fixation,’ a nautical term used to describe an obsessive infatuation with beacon-bearing towers. As one lanky, bearded hakham (Yiddish for ‘wise man’) observed after [...]
