After the horn sounded, the lead pack made up of Ken Cooper and Joe Shaw were sizing each other up like heavy weight fighters within the 1st mile. Many other paddlers were also trying to decide who to draft off of since the day was more like a K1 race [...]
After a week of steady rain and a forecast calling for showers and fog, August 16 dawned sunny and clear at Nahant Bay. Eighteen paddlers disregarded the weather predictions and turned up at Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott to compete in light wind and moderate seas. The 10kt southwest breeze and [...]
‘Wela ka hao,’ roughly translated from the Hawaiian, means: ‘Strike while the iron is hot.’ Hot it certainly was…humid too, on this oppressively muggy morning on the beach at Gulf Cove in Milford, CT for the ECORA/Hurricane OC-1 Championships and Surfski Race, put on by Blake Conant. The water appeared [...]
Conanicut to Beavertail and Back: Tales from the Cockpit by Mark Ceconi Blue skies and sunlight flooded into the guest suite at Hacienda de la Dwyer in historic Jamestown, RI, two blocks from the docks at the Conanicut Yacht Club where the Jamestown Race was due to begin [...]
