Last year's inaugural Ride the Bull race was a great success, combining challenging conditions with just the right level of tom foolery (Jan's playful attempts at drowning, Borys' random wanderings, Tim H's exuberant/deranged appearances on every outcropping along the course, etc.). Leading up to this year's race, it looked like [...]
Last year around this time I was relishing in the afterglow of my world class spectatorship at the inaugural Ride the Bull race in Jamestown, Rhode Island. I was yanked from the starting line-up in 2013 because the race organizers decided that death by “Bull” would be a too kind [...]
Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound were humming with water activity of all kinds yesterday including not only our race but a sail boat regatta, scores of divers at every point, fisherman, pleasure craft of all sorts and more. So if you were one of the 21 paddlers who showed [...]
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” ― Epicurus What is an eclectic collection of 200+ man and woman-powered watercraft in the beginning of May, dorys and work boats [...]
As I watched the sun rise majestically over the mild waters of the Sakonnet River (I might have arrived a little early), I could tell that the fourth donut had been a bad idea. And that it was going to be a fast day - at least for those who [...]
