My goal of doing the Molokai started in 2004 after reading an article on the race entitled “Waves the size of small houses” by Peter Gimple in Hullspeed. The article really captured the essence of the race and I must have read and reread it 20 times over the years. I was [...]
Last year at the finish line at Koko Head Marina, after I completed my first Molokai, I received the warmest congratulations from Joe Glickman. He told me “Way to go! You did it buddy! Too bad you got flat conditions. You’re going to have to come back to experience the REAL [...]
For the past few years I wanted to do this race and after reading Joe Glickman’s account of last year’s race, I could relate only too well to his story. Why? I am from Mississippi. To be specific Starkville, MS, home of Mississippi State University. While I have lived in Rhode Island [...]
I'm sitting in the stern of a homemade 16' divorce boat with my girlfriend Tracy at the bow just drifting to & fro. We're in a small channel on the east side of the Mighty Mississippi surrounded by more then 100 kayaks and canoes. There are fast sleek surfskis with [...]
‘With one deft stroke, the blade’s leading edge cleft a half moon shaped fissure along the slate gray trough; the smell of salt sea acrid in our nostrils, a trail of racers strung stern to bow in a ragtag line, breathing heavily, eyes focused hungrily on the prize…And this my [...]
