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USCA Nationals: Gut Check
The USCA Nationals offer an opportunity for flatwater canoeists and kayakers to set aside their differences for four days to compete in harmony at a shared venue. All races are within group, of course - there's a limit to how much comingling can be tolerated. Like the better circuses, the Nationals [...]
Battle of the Bay: O’ertaken
Once again, the Battle of the Bay fell within the mandatory blog blackout period following the Gorge Downwind Champs. However, I'm assured that the Committee often turns a blind eye to brief race summaries provided that they "portray surfski paddlers in a positive light" and avoid ancillary alliteration. Hardly seems worth writing anything [...]
Gorge Downwind Champs: Running Wild
Usually when I write a race report, I find myself having to... let's say "embroider"... the story to keep it interesting. After all, it's mostly the same 25 people finishing in roughly the same order. Sure, you never know exactly what kind of wackiness you'll get from Jan or exactly how [...]
2018 Blackburn Challenge
Another Year, Another "Good Blackburn" The racing goal for the past 16 years has been to have a "Good Blackburn". The Blackburn is a different kind of race than the other races we do in New England. First of all, it is long: 19.5 miles give or take a few tenths [...]
2018 USCA National Championships 9-12 August 2018
2018 USCA National Championships 9-12 August 2018 Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool NY From 9-12 of August all roads for racing paddlers in the Northeast lead to Onondaga Lake Park just north of Syracuse, New York. In 2016 the United States Canoe Association (USCA) held its annual championships on the Connecticut River [...]
2018 Lighthouse to Lighthouse, Sept 15, 2018
Get Registered! by Mark Ceconi Come one, come all on Saturday, September 15th, 2018, to one of the most iconic races on the Northeast circuit, the venerable Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race (or “L2L,” as it’s known to the cool kids on the block), in Norwalk, CT. Proceeds benefit the Achilles International [...]
Surfski Reviews
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Surfski Comparison Chart is Now Updated!
Check out the Comparison Chart with the numbers assigned to each ski along with the comparison Grid to get an overall visual on the relative speed vs stability. For example you can see that I rated the SR as the most stable since it at the top of the chart [...]
New Surfski Reviews Coming: 2012 Nelo Vintage(30lbs), 2010 Nelo Vintage(23lbs) and Van Dusen Mohican
Team SurfskiRacing.com Chris(web master) and myself will be reviewing the 2012 Nelo Vintage in the WWR construction(30lbs), a Nelo Vintage in the E construction at 23lbs, and the pure flat water surf ski, the Ted Van Dusen Mohican. It will probably be a month before we get everything posted but [...]
Fenn Elite Tandem: A “Very Cool” First Paddle with Cliff – by Susan Williams
Cliff Roach and I set out to paddle Mark Ceconi’s brand new Fenn Elite tandem surfski for the purposes of writing a review for surfskiracing.com. Clearly, Mark has been hanging out with his eternally optimistic elementary school students for too long, the poor trusting soul had no idea what we [...]
Think Evo Fiberglass Review – by Wesley Echols
My first paddling experience with my Evo was a 37 mile circumnavigation of Aquidneck Island with my partner in crime, Tim Dwyer. I had purchased the glass Evo the previous day and was excited to try out my latest acquisition. Tim paddled my Huki S1R. So, in comparable boats, we [...]
Epic V12 2G Surfski Review
My Epic V12 story started in 2009 when I got the first V12 1g on the East Coast. I paddled it for 3 months, reviewed it and sold it to my training partner Tim who paddled it for years. The 1G had a distinctive roll but once you got used [...]