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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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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

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

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 [...]

Salem Sound Race 2012 – Saturday, Sept 29th

THE KETTLE ISLAND RUN Saturday, Sept 29th 2012Woodbury Beach located at Lynch Park, Beverly MA Race Director: Ed DugganEmail: kaylngctr@comcast.net Click to view Google driving directions GPS Address: 55 Ober StreetBeverly, MA 01915 SCHEDULE Classes: Single Surfski and Single OC1 Awards: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Mens and Womens Division. Both Classes plus a [...]

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

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 [...]