Wesley and Tim introduced the Ride the Bull race to the New England surfski circuit in 2013, filling a gaping mid-June hole in our calendar. Positioned early enough in the season so that we don't yet have our sea legs, but requiring that we paddle almost exclusively through pathologically disturbed [...]
Gazing over the placid waters of the Sakonnet River, it seemed that I had been granted a reprieve. With all of my training thus far done on flatwater, I was hardly ready to compete in any significant ocean conditions - what some traditionalist sticklers might refer to as an "actual [...]
I always look forward to the Sakonnet River Race. It gets us off the flat water and into bay/ocean conditions. It also is a distance that you can not hide at 12.5 miles. In the eight years I have held this race, conditions have varied dramatically from glassy flat to [...]
The Essex River introduced me to kayak racing in 2004, guided me through some tough times when Mary Beth and I were having trouble (deciding on cat names, mostly), and will serve as the executor of my estate once I meet my inevitable doom chainsawing an ice sculpture. After so [...]
The Run of the Charles may primarily be a punishing battle for those who want to test their mettle against 19 miles of portages, rudder-tearing shallows, and the endless meanderings of the river, but don't tell that to the 27 paddlers who instead opted for a painless 6.1 mile surfski [...]
