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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 [...]
On Training: Chain of Fools
The stroke catches and the boat runs. There is a feeling to it, a brief firmness in the water that holds long enough for the body to push through, and the boat moves with more [...]
Nationals: Meet the (Blackburn) Challenge
Every local racing community has a structure. You know who the fast paddlers are, roughly how you stack up against them, and what a good day on the water looks like for you. That knowledge [...]
18th Sakonnet River Race 2026
The 18th Sakonnet River Race went off without a hitch with a small group of New England surfski paddlers. Conditions were ideal for the 9.4 mile course. It was not the total grind up to [...]
On Racing: Current, Tide, and Timing
Current is the quiet architect of many races. Unlike wind, it rarely announces itself. There is no sound, no visible force—just the subtle difference between working hard and going nowhere, or moving efficiently with effort [...]
On Downwinding: Decision Scope
Around the ninety-minute mark, a bump builds ahead and gets left alone. Not because of anything physical. The opportunity was real. But a sprint that reads as obvious on a twenty-minute run reads differently when [...]
On Training: Recovery and Adaptation
The main concept behind "training" of any sort is that damage accumulates when work occurs, and adaptation happens during recovery. There's a well-established process at this point for optimizing our adaptation mechanism to quickly achieve [...]

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L2L Exciting Race!!
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L2L Exciting Race!!

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2011, Race Reports

L2L Exciting Race!!

The Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race is one of my favorite races. It is 14 miles of ocean paddling around islands and lighthouses and has a beautiful long beach, plenty of parking, and great attendance, and the Race Director Wayne Lysobey and Gary Williams do a wonderful job putting on this [...]

The East Coast Surfski Championships
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The East Coast Surfski Championships

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2011

The East Coast Surfski Championships

The East Coast Surfski Championships(a.k.a. The Jamestown Counter Revolution)Providence, RI, Saturday, August 27, 2011~Mark Ceconi~ The San Francisco Surfski Champs is an infamous race, no doubt about that. They have it all; the wind, the waves, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz…not to mention Ghirardelli chocolates and Helen Workman. Not to [...]

East Coast Surfski Champs, Success!!

For the second time time in three years we have had to move the race venue due to a hurricane. Hurricane Irene's impending arrival forced Dan G.(race director) and his crew to move the race to the alternative location of the Narrgansett Boat Club on the Seekonk River. Just like two [...]

East Coast Surfski Championship-Jamestown Counter Revolution

Are you the Fastest Surfskier on the East Coast? Find out August 27 and win the prize money!! $1500 in total prize money. Sponsored by Stellar. This race will coincide with the Jamestown Counter Revolution race. So check out the tab on this site for all the info. We are expecting [...]

Jim Hoffman Does U.S. Surfski Champs

Jim Hoffman from Bedford, New York did his 2nd US Surfski Champs. The week before at the Double Beaver Race in Jamestown, RI, Jim mentioned he was registered for the race but would play it by ear if he would participate. Jim is a frequent flyer to California for business [...]