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2023, Crash B’s, Indoor Rowing Championship
Today was my 17th or 18th Crash B, Indoor Rowing Championship held at the New Balance Track in Boston. Up until a few years ago, this race held in Boston was the World Indoor Rowing Championship. Now they move the World's around to different cities every year. Just last week the [...]
Nahant Bay Race 2022 Summary
After a two-year hiatus, Mike McDonough revived his popular Nahant Bay Race for 2022. With a 7-10 mph north wind forecast to swing to the northeast during the race, Mike decided to reuse a course he plotted for the 2014 race. From Fisherman’s Beach in Swampscott, MA, paddlers would exit [...]
Clean Open Access Race 6 miles
Clean Ocean Access Sup, Surfski, Kayak 3/6 mile Race was held at the Newport Shipyard. Timothy P. Dwyer and John Redos, Sam Duffield took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively in the 6-mile race. 98 participants that included 80+ Sups, then a mix of kayaks, surf skis, and Oc's. Flat ocean [...]
2022 Blackburn Challenge Summary
Article Reposted with Permission from New England Surfski(NESS) This year’s Blackburn Challenge in Gloucester, MA featured one of the great head-to-head battles in the storied 35-year history of this great race. Twenty-one single HPKs (all skis but one) and four double skis participated in this classic 19.5-mile race around Cape Ann. [...]
Sakonnet River Race 2022
Reposted with permission from New England Surfski(NESS) Twenty-one paddlers gathered at Island Park Beach in Rhode Island on Saturday for the 15th running of Wesley Echol’s Sakonnet Surfski Race. The 9.4-mile out-and-back course had competitors starting just off the beach, heading south 4.7 miles to a red can, and then returning [...]
Ride The Bull 2022
Reprinted with permission from New England Surfski Competitors at this year’s Ride the Bull Race didn’t have to contend with conditions as daunting as in some former years, but still had to negotiate a course with vexing tidal currents and confused waves from varied directions. Sixteen paddlers traveled to Jamestown, Rhode [...]
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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 [...]
New Stellar SR by Tim H
My thoughts on the New Stellar SR 2015 2015 has been a good year for me to build strength and continue improving my stroke technique on flat water. As I bumped up the speed work in April I started to see the fruits in May at the Essex River race. [...]
Mako 6 Carbon Review – by Wesley Echols
If you keep up with the national and international surfski race scene you’ll note most of the field astride Fenn Mako 6’s, Mako Elites or some version of the Epic V10. Why, you might ask? Well, two immediate answers are these boats are fast and they are readily available in [...]
Comfort is King – Uno Max 3G- Sean Rice
Reposted with permission, from Think Surfski Journal, Think Kayaks NOVEMBER 30, 2017 COMFORT IS KING – UNO MAX 3G – SEAN RICE Sean Rice was directly involved in the refinement and design process that developed the 3rd generation Uno Max. He then paddled it to his first victory at [...]