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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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2009 US Surfski Championships – by Mike McNulty

My personal experience (from the middle of the pack) of the 2009 US Surf Ski Champs was definitely positive. It was the biggest Surf Ski race I have ever been in, maybe the biggest in the US? I had been concerned about the start as we all had to get around [...]

2009 Nahant Bay Race – by Mike McDonough

The Nahant Bay Race took place yesterday in ocean conditions slightly milder than normal for this time of year. A southeast wind blowing 10 kts and a long-period, almost imperceptible 2' swell from Hurricane Bill were not enough to create good rides across the open water section, but a solid group [...]

2009 Nahant Bay Race – by Wesley Echols

Despite the predictive poor weather from the storm “Bill”, the weather was fantastic, sunny and flat. Mike McDonough(Race Director did a super job with his organization of the race providing chase boat, setting turn buoys, providing laminated charts of the course, big race numbers, and had expert help from his wife, daughter, [...]

Running With the Outriggers – Milford 2009 – by Wayne Lysobey

All of my races this year have been around 200 miles away from my home in Norwalk, CT. I started thinking about the Outrigger Race which was 20 miles away up the coast in Milford, run by Blake Conant, and thought wouldn’t it be nice to be able to race close [...]

2009 Milford OC1 Canoe and Surfski Race Summary – by Wesley Echols

One of the nice things about the Milford Race is that Blake Conant, the Race Director, makes you feel so welcome when you show up for the race so the karma is great from the beginning. This year’s race had a good showing of OC paddlers and there were actually 2 [...]

Double Beaver 2009 – by Wesley Echols

Joe Glickman off a sub par Blackburn Challenge due to the flu was feeling 100% today and he walloped the local boys by 5 minutes leading from the get go. Tim Dywer, host, was on his home turf so he wanted to have a good show despite the extra pressure of [...]