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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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Potato Race on a Brilliant New England Fall Day
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Potato Race on a Brilliant New England Fall Day

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Potato Race on a Brilliant New England Fall Day

Adam and Wendy Gelinas put on a great race with help from a brilliant New England Day and a great turnout of racers. The eight mile Potato race is the last race of the season held on the Connecticutt River in Hadley, Massachusetts. The sun was out and the temperature was [...]

SurfskiRacing.com Series Winners and Season Recap
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SurfskiRacing.com Series Winners and Season Recap

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SurfskiRacing.com Series Winners and Season Recap

SURFSKIRACING.COM series is in its third year sponsored by Stellar Kayaks and Surfskis. This years winner by a large margin was Borys Markin, a former Olympic paddler. The series was the best of 4 races vice 5 since one race was dropped from the series(Jamestown Counter Revolution). Bory's made the effort [...]

Holyoke Race-Mohicans Shine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th
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Holyoke Race-Mohicans Shine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th

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Holyoke Race-Mohicans Shine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th

With my choice of an ocean race or a flat water race, 90% of the time I choose ocean hands down. However, with my newly purchased Ted Van Dusen Mohican, I could not wait to race the Holyoke 6 mile on the Connecticut River hosted by Mark and Alicia Wendolowski. So [...]

Holyoke Flatwater Race, September 29th, 2012: Last year’s 2011 Race Hugh Pritchard Wins Holyoke Going Away!
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Holyoke Flatwater Race, September 29th, 2012: Last year’s 2011 Race Hugh Pritchard Wins Holyoke Going Away!

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Holyoke Flatwater Race, September 29th, 2012: Last year’s 2011 Race Hugh Pritchard Wins Holyoke Going Away!

Holyoke Rows Holyoke Cup Canoe and Kayak Race’s Saturday September 29, 2012 Registration: $10.00 at Holyoke Rows Boathouse from 12:00 - 1:00 Start: 1:30 PM Sharp Distance: 10K racing, 6K recreational and 1K Youth Race Classes: Recreational and Racing classes for all types of Canoes and Kayaks, Adult, Novice and Youth Course: Loop course on [...]

L2L Race: “Go Back! Go Back!” by Mark Ceconi
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L2L Race: “Go Back! Go Back!” by Mark Ceconi

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L2L Race: “Go Back! Go Back!” by Mark Ceconi

Too late, we realized our blunder; we had cut inside of the island we were supposed to go ‘round, having fallen prey to the dreaded ‘lighthouse fixation,’ a nautical term used to describe an obsessive infatuation with beacon-bearing towers. As one lanky, bearded hakham (Yiddish for ‘wise man’) observed after the [...]

Lighthouse to Lighthouse(L2L) Race September 15, 2012
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Lighthouse to Lighthouse(L2L) Race September 15, 2012

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Lighthouse to Lighthouse(L2L) Race September 15, 2012

New Logo 2012 Registration is open for the 2012 Lighthouse To Lighthouse Race! 14 or 7 miles of open water racing for any seaworthy, human powered craft. The L2L is the second most attended race outside of the Blackburn Challenge. See below link for all the details and registration. [...]