While the majority of the paddling and rowing community in New England made their way to the venerable and justifiably popular Lighthouse To Lighthouse race on 9/10, a handful of the commuter-phobic went instead to Devereaux Beach in Marblehead for the 1st or 2nd or 3rd attempt by the Rotarians [...]
Visit 2011 SurfskiRacing.com Race Series Page The L2L race ended the SurfskiRacing.com Race Series sponsored by Stellar for the second year in a row. This year congratulations go to Joe Glickman who won the series by two points (55) over yours truly with 53. Joe came in 1st, 2nd or [...]
The weather was cooperative. No hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, or thunderstorms. It was the competition in various classes that was lightning, as in fast. Three boats bettered the previous course record of 1:47:19 set by Sean Brennan in 2009 in his Epic V-12 surfski. The surfski time was beaten by [...]
The Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race is one of my favorite races. It is 14 miles of ocean paddling around islands and lighthouses and has a beautiful long beach, plenty of parking, and great attendance, and the Race Director Wayne Lysobey and Gary Williams do a wonderful job putting on [...]
The East Coast Surfski Championships(a.k.a. The Jamestown Counter Revolution)Providence, RI, Saturday, August 27, 2011~Mark Ceconi~ The San Francisco Surfski Champs is an infamous race, no doubt about that. They have it all; the wind, the waves, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz…not to mention Ghirardelli chocolates and Helen Workman. Not [...]
