Today I gave a five hour private lesson to a very motivated novice ocean paddler and intermediate flat water kayaker. We went soup to nuts to get Scott ready for the upcoming paddling season with his goal in mind for him to do some flat water races and some small [...]
With the air temperature in the 40's and no wind it felt like a spring day here in Jamestown, Rhode Island. I launched from my familiar Jamestown site, Bay Voyage Inn. I did a 6 mile Sakonnet River tempo paddle yesterday, so today was an easy paddle to get use [...]
Sean's Workshop, Newport, RI PaddleLife has planned a whole weekend of surfski fun with Sean Rice and we really hope that you will join us! So, block off July 29th and 30th 2017 in your diaries and don't miss out! The schedule for the weekend is going to [...]
The last six weeks had jammed packed with paddling. I paddled in three races in April alone: Narrow River, Sharkbite, and ROTC. Yesterday I was on the mighty Sakonnet in the high winds, storm surge and some mixed conditions you don't usually get in the Sakonnet. All great training. This [...]
I have been paddling since 1994 and paddling surfskis since 2003. It safe to say I have had a lot of instruction from various ACA/BCU instructors where I did receive my BCU Star 3 award and I took the training for BCU Star 4 in my sea kayaking days along [...]
