Tim and I changed the course for this year's race to a 2 loop and 1 leg race that kept all racers close to shore. Why? It was easier than dropping a buoy in Hull Cove then going back to retrieve in Tim's motor boat. Despite the change, I was [...]
With Mary Beth away on her annual June pilgrimage to "where you're not", I was desperate to recruit someone to fill my open Goodboy rack for the trip down to Wesley's 10th Annual Sakonnet River Race and Pizza Jamboree. If I couldn't find a willing passenger, I'd be forced to [...]
Although it's theoretically possible that a team of mathematicians, horologists, and astronomers could work through the byzantine calculations necessary to predict the exact date of the Essex River Race, I prefer to rely on the time-tested folk adage: If Bob Capellini is standing on your porch holding a half-dozen home-made [...]
While a few masochistic hold-outs still suffer through the longer 19 and 9 mile courses of the Run of the Charles, the more portage-averse of us have settled into the 6 mile race like a long-lost shoe. With 30+ surfskis participating, this would be the largest ever junior ROTC enrollment. [...]
14th Place-Fun Getting There. This years race had the largest turnout of surfskis ever for the 6 mile race(32). A few years ago I added it to the SurfskiRacing.com Race Series that increased attendance along with the fact many of us that previously did the 19 mile, 6 portage race, [...]
