It was a dark and stormy . . . race. The strong N winds whipped, the rain dashed and the currents streamed but the boats just crawled along at just over 6 kts over this twisty, semi-flatwater race of 10 miles. Tom Kerr, Wesley Echols, Chris Chappell and Ken Cooper [...]
Twelve to fifteen knots, NNW winds and enough chill in the air to feel the bite made for typical Snow Row conditions. This short, 3+ mile race is a perennial indicator that winter won't long be with us and the race season is nearing. A record 81 boats of all [...]
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 [...]
