More on Wye Island 2011

From the “Epic Guy’s” perspective. Race description

Wye Island Regatta Kayak Challenge, 2011

September rolled around and it was time for the annual Wye Island Regatta in Maryland. I had been working out…

That summer of 2011 I stalked a lot of boats online and eventually picked up the phone and called Doug Bushnell at…

The summer of 2011 brought a significant change to my life. For most of my adult life I had ridden…

A little less than a month after the Rivanna River Race in May, 2011, I entered the Camp Kumbayah Downriver…

The week following the Tye River race in 2011 I decided to try to paddle my Cobra Viper kayak down…

I paddled as much as I could throughout the Fall and Winter of 2010 and into the Spring of 2011.…

Shortly after the Wye Island Regatta kayak race in Sept. 2010 I purchased a wing paddle. Wing paddles came into…

I began my search for a fast, racing-style kayak after that Rivanna River Race in 2010. I spent many hours…

So the second Saturday of May (May 8) 2010 rolled around and I was ready to compete with the best…

So Spring 2010 rolled around and I had, what I thought at the time, was a very fast boat and…

As the weeks and months passed after my first solo kayak race on the Tye River, I realized that I…

My first solo kayak race was actually not on my local river. Paddling buddy Konrad told me about another race…