Two days after the Mayor’s Cup it is a beautiful day here in Rhode Island, brilliant sunshine, 6 knots of wind. Today it was easy for me to decide which ski to take off the rack: the UNO. The forecast of small craft/gale for Sunday’s race caused me to bring my [...]
In a repeat of last year’s race, irate weather gods with a cruel sense of humor dropped from the sky extremely challenging weather, once again forcing the cancellation of all kayak classes save the Elite surfski class, some tandem classes, and several OC-2s. With winds blowing from the north at [...]
What, no Surfski?! I abandoned my surfski for this race. Yet I was itching to go all the way around Manhattan this year as conditions last year were tough enough to be cancelled mid-race. As ungainly and awkward as they might be for racing, a tandem sea kayak is a [...]
The pre-race evening started innocently enough; I had the pleasure of staying with the exhaustingly-inquisitive Joe Glickman (the Glicker), old man Greg Barton, drop-waist jeaned and jovial Sean Rice, and the surly-appearing, crossword puzzle manic Bevan Manson. Our dinner conversation began with the predictable immature banter about our waitress's finer qualities [...]
Outriggers, kayaks, rowing shells, competition, blue sky, 175 friends, food, sunshine, waves, “talk like a pirate” day, beer, clams and oysters. How many stories might be written with the above words? How many days see all of the above? Such a day was September 19, 2009 at the Soundkeeper’s Lighthouse [...]
