The Achilles International Kayak Program has participated in the Mayor’s Cup practically since the start of the event. In the last couple of years the team has grown, but in 2008 and 2009 we suffered the wrath of the weather gods along with everyone else. This resulted in only our [...]
So Many Races in August!! Nahant Race, One of Many and a local Favorite! Today, here in New England there were three races within New England. The 3rd Nahant Race was in Swampscott, Massachusetts right outside of Boston of which there were 15 paddlers. There was the New England Flatwater Championships in New [...]
“Hut!” “Hut!” “WHOAAA!” (Splash!’‘Splash!’) erupted from my right, as a banana shaped ama lifted high at right angles to the water like a garden pergola, framing momentarily two legs and a random arm sticking out of the water. The blue OC-2 I had just passed at the turn buoy had [...]
Rounding the clanging, green buoy can off Beavertail Point under the watchful rotating beacon of its lighthouse perched on the cliffs marking the ‘single’ half of the ‘Double’ Beaver, I was so looking forward to a slight break from the jouncy conditions behind. Maybe a sweet run or two on [...]
Rich K had warned of sandbars when he gave the Captains’ meeting at 7:00 am. The Blackburn usually goes off at a higher tide then this year. Still, I hadn't really expected to find a bar in the middle of the Annisquam, dead on my GPS course. My first clue [...]