All of my races this year have been around 200 miles away from my home in Norwalk, CT. I started thinking about the Outrigger Race which was 20 miles away up the coast in Milford, run by Blake Conant, and thought wouldn’t it be nice to be able to race [...]
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 [...]
‘Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down,’ or hopefully, in, as the situation may warrant. This was the catchphrase of the day for the 2009 running of the infamous ‘Double Beaver’ Race, innocently named for the out and back course that twice rounds Beavertail Lighthouse in historic Jamestown, RI, just [...]
April 2009 - First Impression My curiosity (re: obsession/compulsion/enjoyment) got the best of me once again courtesy of my friends from The Kayak Centre in Wickford, Rhode Island, who asked me if I might possibly have any interest whatsoever in the new Epic V12 (Note: slight tongue in cheek reference [...]
