Category for Northeast Surfski Races, 2010
Hot day and flat conditions. It doesn’t get any better than this! Okay, maybe not for the pure enjoyment of surfski racing(catching waves) but those conditions suit me and I look forward to them. When the weather forecast for the Blackburn Challenge was calling for hot and flat, I was pretty stoked. Craig Impens [...]
It is axiomatic that in almost any race, the lighter you are the faster you go. At about 8.3 pounds per gallon, a small amount of water can be deceptive. Twelve gallons in your boat becomes a hundred pounds of slippery, shifting payload. Not only have you acquired a load [...]
This was the third year of the Sakonnet River Race. For the past two years we had roughly twenty-five paddlers, I expected about thirty paddlers this year but due to the violent and scary thunderstorms that moved up the East Coast, we had a small but competitive group of paddlers. [...]
Saturday, June 5, 2010, Portsmouth, RI The days ticked off on my calendar leading up to Wesley Echol’s Sakonnet River Race…a hard, but oh so fun 14 mile course out the tidal river starting at McCorrie Beach and out past third rock. You are assured of some fun rides as [...]
A Rower's Perspective - by Wayne Lysobey Whaleboats were floundering in the wind. At least the one with kids was having difficulty getting pointed in the right direction after they rounded the island. Fixed seat workboats were having trouble making headway. Stable Echo rowing shells flipped over. A Little River [...]
