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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 [...]

Latest News

L2L Translates to ‘Lots to Love’: Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race 2009 – by Mark Ceconi

‘A little bit of everything,’ was how one competitor was overheard referring to the conditions at this year’s Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race, in Westport CT. The ‘L2L’, as it’s affectionately known to the coolest of the cool in paddler lingo, is a fourteen mile total out and back course that launches from [...]

Providence Counter Revolution – by Kinley Gregg

I have become very parochial in my old age, rarely leaving the southern Maine town in which I live. But I know I need to venture out more, so when a 15 mile open water race in Narragansett Bay was advertised, I thought "Kinley, you should be able to struggle through [...]

Danny Boy Comes to Jamestown – by Wayne Lysobey
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Danny Boy Comes to Jamestown – by Wayne Lysobey

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2009

Danny Boy Comes to Jamestown – by Wayne Lysobey

Danny Boy O Danny boy, the waves the waves are calling From crest to crest, down the waves we slide The summer’s gone and all the races falling ‘Tis you, ‘tis you must go out with the tide The JCR, Jamestown Counter Revolution was supposed to take place down in Narragansett [...]

Jamestown Counter Revolution 2009 – by Wesley Echols

The venue was moved to the Narragansett Boat House in Providence, RI due to the impending storm. It never materialized. So some of the Best open ocean rowers in the Country had to rely on their flatwater skills for the 10 mile, no wind, super flat race today. Click to Visit [...]

2009 US Surfski Championships: Just a bit of Chop (mate)! – by Joe Glickman

I met Dean Gardiner in Chicago in 1994. It was my second year of paddling and we were in Chicago at the start a month-long stage race from Chicago to New York. He’d recently won Molokai and the forecast for 20 knot winds for our 33 mile crossing of Lake Michigan [...]

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 [...]