No matter how many times I row or paddle Essex River, I can never seem to get the steering just right (can anyone?!)-- And 2009 was no different. After an admittedly overzealous start in the Fast Touring Class, I had a bit of a lead coming out of the early [...]
1996 I was a sea kayak enthusiast looking for a new challenge. So on a hot summer day I heard an ad on the radio for a kayak race in north-eastern Québec, 7 hours away from my home. The race was La Grande Traversée, a 55km crossing of the St-Lawrence [...]
I positioned myself (EFT) behind Wesley(V12) at the start, just to give myself perspective on how the rest of the race would go for me. Chris Chappell in his brilliant orange Mohican was off to my right and Jim Hoffman(Mako Elite) was to my left. Wesley Echols shot off like [...]
The start of the 19 miler in Dedham has the same flavor year after year: find a parking spot along the road next to the park, dump boats and gear onto the grass, grab your whistle and button to be traded for the race t shirt, then catch up with [...]
Today’s training race looked like a carbon copy of last year’s: cold, windy, raw, and overcast. Tom Kerr and Mark Ceconi traveled from Connecticut while Ken Cooper, Cory Lancaster, Chris Chappell make the trek from the Boston area. Razz Bregenhoj, Tim Dwyer, and I represented the local paddlers; a small [...]
