At the Captains Meeting Rich K., the Race Director, went down the line asking the 300 plus paddlers: " Who is here for the first time?" hands raised and cheering ensued. " Who has done this 5 times", 10 times, 15, 20, 28 times. I raised my hand on 15. [...]
USCA Marathon National Championships are Returning to New England in August 2016 Hosted by NECKRA The New England Canoe and Kayak Racing Association (NECKRA) is hosting the USCA National Championships at the Northfield Mountain Recreational and Environmental Center in Northfield, MA. Come for three days of marathon racing (August [...]
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 [...]
