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On Downwinding: You’re Not Surfing
Most paddlers learn to think about downwind paddling in terms of waves. You catch a wave, you ride the wave, and you look for the next wave. Wash, rinse, repeat. That model works well enough [...]
On Training: Stress and Adaptation
Nothing in training happens without stress. In the absence of a stressor, our system remains exactly as it is. But stress alone is not improvement, and in an ocean environment, misunderstanding that difference is one [...]
On Racing: Starting Right
Most races are decided long before the first buoy or the first run. They begin in the final minutes before the start, when paddlers are already spending physical, mental, and emotional energy, whether they realize [...]
Blackburn Challenge to host 2026 National Championships
The American Canoe Association has selected the Cape Ann Rowing Club's Blackburn Challenge as the host venue for the 2026 USA Canoe Ocean Racing National Championships, placing one of America’s most iconic open-water races at [...]
USA Surfski Paddlers @ 2025 ICF COR World Championships
The 2025 ICF Canoe Ocean Racing (COR) World Championships were held in Durban, South Africa this past October. Worlds is the pinnacle international competition for surfski paddlers all over the world, in addition to World Cups [...]

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Ride the Bull: Choosing Stability

Wesley and Tim introduced the Ride the Bull race to the New England surfski circuit in 2013, filling a gaping mid-June hole in our calendar. Positioned early enough in the season so that we don't yet have our sea legs, but requiring that we paddle almost exclusively through pathologically disturbed waters, [...]

Sakonnet River Race: There Are No Shortcuts

Gazing over the placid waters of the Sakonnet River, it seemed that I had been granted a reprieve. With all of my training thus far done on flatwater, I was hardly ready to compete in any significant ocean conditions - what some traditionalist sticklers might refer to as an "actual surfski [...]

2016 Sakonnet Race

I always look forward to the Sakonnet River Race. It gets us off the flat water and into bay/ocean conditions. It also is a distance that you can not hide at 12.5 miles. In the eight years I have held this race, conditions have varied dramatically from glassy flat to 2/3 [...]

Register on PaddleGuru, No Same Day Registration. Sakonnet Race: June 4, 2016, 10am.

Greg Lesher put the Sakonnet, Ride the Bull and Doublebeaver on PaddleGuru so register there. No same day registration or the rare exception. https://paddleguru.com/races/SakonnetRiverRace2016

Essex River Race: Swimmer to Winner

The Essex River introduced me to kayak racing in 2004, guided me through some tough times when Mary Beth and I were having trouble (deciding on cat names, mostly), and will serve as the executor of my estate once I meet my inevitable doom chainsawing an ice sculpture. After so many [...]

Run of the Charles: Victory! Moral Variety.

The Run of the Charles may primarily be a punishing battle for those who want to test their mettle against 19 miles of portages, rudder-tearing shallows, and the endless meanderings of the river, but don't tell that to the 27 paddlers who instead opted for a painless 6.1 mile surfski jaunt. [...]