Category for Northeast Surfski Races, 2009
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 [...]
The major thought I have about this year's event is the remarkable level of participant support and assistance exhibited throughout the race. I personally saw Bill Baker, an FSK entry and a SK entry (regrettably I don't know their names or remember their numbers) helping a surf ski paddler to [...]
2009 would be my 18th consecutive Blackburn; twelve of them had been oar-powered and this would be my sixth time around facing forwards, having paddled Touring Doubles with Tom Mailhot in 1998, 2006 (fog- shortened course) and 2008, Double Surfski with Pam Browning in 2003, and Touring Single in 1999. [...]
