On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 WILAX_at_aol.com wrote: > I do a 3 fun race seakayak series in Narragansette Bay (Rhode Island). The > races are June, Aug. and Sept. They are kind of goofy and fun, sort of like > the Sunday morning 5k running crowd. Distances range from 4 to 15 miles. > Does anyone know of any other races in the Northeast? I would like to do more > as three a year just doesn't make much of an agenda. The Atlantic Coastal Kayaker usually has races listed in the back. I don't have a copy here but will dig it up and post the race list. I highly recommend the Blackburn Challenge on July 19. It's basically a circumnavigation of Cape Ann (Gloucester) in Massachusetts. The distance is somewhere between 19 and 24 miles. The race is put on by the Cape Ann Rowing club - the club president is a surf ski paddler/rep. Classes include outrigger canoes, regular canoes, gigs, dories, skiffs, rowing shells, surf skiis, racing and touring kayaks. It's an extremely well run race. My favorite incident from last years race was having a 6 man outrigger canoe pass me and hearing them say, "Bail when we get around the point". About 5 minutes later I noticed I was gaining on them. They had tipped over just before Halibut point. I stopped to help them and towed one guy back to the swamped canoe with the bailing bucket. Two race support boats showed up and I left. I'm not sure what you would do with a swamped 300 pound 6 man outrigger canoe in decent waves and an onshore wind pushing the canoe toward a rock shoreline - that problem was solved after I left. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 03 1998 - 07:12:40 PDT
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