Last year I got the idea that it might be interesting to write a little article on the North American surfski scene for my blog (Full Tilt). Over the past few years I've gotten to know the New England circuit pretty well, but other than the US Surfski Championship and [...]
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” ― Epicurus What is an eclectic collection of 200+ man and woman-powered watercraft in the beginning of May, dorys and work boats [...]
As I watched the sun rise majestically over the mild waters of the Sakonnet River (I might have arrived a little early), I could tell that the fourth donut had been a bad idea. And that it was going to be a fast day - at least for those who [...]
We had a great turn out at this year's Sakonnet Race with 27 boats including sea kayaks and double kayaks from the Achilles Team. The weather forecast was spot on with light northernly winds switching to southwest during the race to flatten the last three miles to almost glass. Caroline [...]
Around ten years ago I headed north from my home in the San Francisco Bay Area to race in the San Juan Challenge. Long story short, by the end of the trip wheels were in motion for my wife, Luanne and I to move to a small Canadian Island in [...]
