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National Series Notebook: A Red-Hot October
The USA Surfski leaderboard grew to 203 paddlers this week, with seven new names added in five days. Kieffer now sits just ahead of Wilson Reavley (A26), whose 1,959 points represent a full season of [...]
On Downwinding: Crosswind and Mixed Days
From the parking lot the water looks like nothing worth the drive. Wind chop runs in from the southwest, a leftover groundswell rolls in from the southeast, and where the two meet the surface has [...]
2026 Great Stone Dam Race
By Wesley Echols I really enjoyed myself today at the Great Stone Dam Classic, an 8.14 mile race in Lawrence, MA hosted by Shawn Burke, and Francisco. It was a perfect day New England day [...]
On Training: Decision and Commitment
A runner lifts behind you, and for half a second you know exactly what to do. Then the half second passes, and you're still thinking about it. The gap between the boat and the swell [...]
On Training: Orientation and Pattern Recognition
Your nemesis is two kilometers of confused water where the swell from the south meets a cross-chop off the eastern point of land. You've paddled it dozens of times. For most of those sessions it's [...]
On Downwinding: Leveraging Energy
The difference between flatwater paddling and downwinding isn't subtle. Grinding a flat stretch is the opposite: all work and no rest, every foot of distance earned stroke by stroke with nothing free about it. Catching [...]
On Training: Efficiency and Friction
During any long session or race, most of each stroke converts cleanly into forward motion. A small fraction gets diverted into correction, stabilization, and adjustment. Some of that cost comes from outside: the ocean pushes, [...]
On Racing: Finishing Strong
Finishing well has little to do with who is most tired. Everyone is tired. What separates paddlers at the end of a race is not how much they have left, but how clearly they can [...]
On Racing: Expecting the Unexpected
The forecast you checked the night before is completely different when you wake up. The wind has increased, the swell period has changed, and there's a conversation happening near the water's edge about which direction [...]
On Downwinding: Reading Lines
The line appears before the decision to take it is fully formed. A shift in the water texture, maybe forty meters ahead, something about the way a long roller is organizing at an angle to [...]

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Ride the Bull: Exciting and New by Greg Lesher
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Ride the Bull: Exciting and New by Greg Lesher

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Ride the Bull: Exciting and New by Greg Lesher

Last year's inaugural Ride the Bull race was a great success, combining challenging conditions with just the right level of tom foolery (Jan's playful attempts at drowning, Borys' random wanderings, Tim H's exuberant/deranged appearances on every outcropping along the course, etc.). Leading up to this year's race, it looked like we [...]

Bullied, Blistered, Beaten and Better For It by Tim Hudyncia
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Bullied, Blistered, Beaten and Better For It by Tim Hudyncia

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Bullied, Blistered, Beaten and Better For It by Tim Hudyncia

Last year around this time I was relishing in the afterglow of my world class spectatorship at the inaugural Ride the Bull race in Jamestown, Rhode Island. I was yanked from the starting line-up in 2013 because the race organizers decided that death by “Bull” would be a too kind and [...]

Ride the Bull Race 2014 Exciting, Challenging!
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Ride the Bull Race 2014 Exciting, Challenging!

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Ride the Bull Race 2014 Exciting, Challenging!

Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound were humming with water activity of all kinds yesterday including not only our race but a sail boat regatta, scores of divers at every point, fisherman, pleasure craft of all sorts and more. So if you were one of the 21 paddlers who showed up [...]

Essex River Race; Captain Kirk and the Cling-On by Tim Hudyncia
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Essex River Race; Captain Kirk and the Cling-On by Tim Hudyncia

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Essex River Race; Captain Kirk and the Cling-On by Tim Hudyncia

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” ― Epicurus What is an eclectic collection of 200+ man and woman-powered watercraft in the beginning of May, dorys and work boats and [...]

Sakonnet River Race: Still Waters Run Fast by Greg Lesher
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Sakonnet River Race: Still Waters Run Fast by Greg Lesher

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Sakonnet River Race: Still Waters Run Fast by Greg Lesher

As I watched the sun rise majestically over the mild waters of the Sakonnet River (I might have arrived a little early), I could tell that the fourth donut had been a bad idea. And that it was going to be a fast day - at least for those who had [...]

Flat, Fast, Friendly, 2014 Sakonnet River Race
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Flat, Fast, Friendly, 2014 Sakonnet River Race

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Flat, Fast, Friendly, 2014 Sakonnet River Race

We had a great turn out at this year's Sakonnet Race with 27 boats including sea kayaks and double kayaks from the Achilles Team. The weather forecast was spot on with light northernly winds switching to southwest during the race to flatten the last three miles to almost glass. Caroline Pierre [...]