Milford ECORA OC and Surfski Race
“Hut!” “Hut!” “WHOAAA!” (Splash!’‘Splash!’) erupted from my right, as a banana shaped ama lifted high at right angles to the water like a garden pergola, framing momentarily two legs and a random arm sticking out of the water. The blue OC-2 I had just passed at the turn buoy had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Wela ka hao,’ roughly translated from the Hawaiian, means: ‘Strike while the iron is hot.’ Hot it certainly was…humid too, on this oppressively muggy morning on the beach at Gulf Cove in Milford, CT for the ECORA/Hurricane OC-1 Championships and Surfski Race, put on by Blake Conant. The water appeared [...]
