Month: July 2022

Race Report

Blackburn Challenge 2022 Summary

July 24, 2022
Blackburn Challenge

This year’s Blackburn Challenge in Gloucester, MA featured one of the great head-to-head battles in the storied 35 year history of this great race. Twenty-one single HPKs (all skis but one) and four double skis participated in this classic 19.5 mile race around Cape Ann. Conditions were benign on paper, with a modest outgoing tide, […]

Race Report

Jamestown Double Beaver 2022 Summary

July 11, 2022
Jamestown Double Beaver

Area paddlers met in Rhode Island for the 14th Jamestown Double Beaver on a stunning day. With competition from the Toms River Race in New Jersey the day after, participation was lower than usual. The field consisted of 7 surfskis and 3 SUPs. As race director Tim Dwyer told everyone, racers would run the standard […]