Stories from the Molokai World Championships Downwind Clinic with 11-Time World Champion Oscar Chulupsky!!! Q: Quick, name a sport that, for a hundred bucks, you can get five close friends together in a world class, tropical destination, and take a private, 3-hour lesson from that sport’s 11-time World Champion! A: Surfskiing, Baby!!! In Hawaii, on [...]

Molokai Training Paddle: Circum-Lummi Island Getting on saltwater for a long paddle almost always adds a level of challenge over lake paddling, not unlike the difference between going for a road run vs. a hilly, muddy trail run. With Molokai just around the corner we wanted to push ourselves a bit, so on Thursday when [...]

Molokai Training 2007 The Kaiwi Channel is known to be one of the most volatile ocean channels in the world. It is also home to the Molokai World Championship Surf Ski and Outrigger Race. For 31 years, the best paddlers in the world have gathered for their chance to claim the most prestigious title in [...]

Molokai Training Paddle: Circum-Fidalgo Island I have always wanted to paddle around Fidalgo Island, a strategic 35-mile paddle. (29-miles if you take out the slog through the mudflats between Cap Sante and the Swinomish Channel Boat Launch) Planning the tides just right are the crux of the circumnavigation. Deception Pass becomes a roiling class 5 [...]

Snow Day… I awoke March 1 to find a beautiful, fluffy fresh layer of snow on the ground. On days like this…training is easy! In fact, it calls for a play day! First, I grabbed little Chili for our daily aerobic workout. A run in the hills on the trails of Galbraith Mtn. Chili lives [...]

Question From Bellingham: La Conner Race, photo by Michael Lampi Dear Heather,We have met on a few occasions, and I am a big fan of yours! I was hoping to receive some advice on kayaking and adventure racing pursuits. To now, I have mostly raced in shorter-distance triathlons but have always been interested in adventure [...]

Question from New Zealand: I’m a passionate sea kayaker, I paddle all the time. I’ve decided that I’m going to do a 24-hour ocean paddle, (Not for the record thou! I’d love to just experience a 24 hour paddle), to raise funds for the NZ Cancer Society. My mum passed away when I was 9 [...]

Womens Surf Ski Demo Day and Clinic: Huge Success! The Women’s Surf Ski Demo Day and Clinic was an awesome success. Over thirty-surf ski’s lined the shore when women started rolling into Bloedel Donovan Park in Bellingham, WA Nov 11 at noon. By the end of the event, we had over 60 gals paddling on [...]

Women On Waves: WOW! Women’s Surf Ski Demo and Clinic!November 11, 2006 Bellingham, WA Being a female surf ski racer can, at times, be lonely. Surf Ski racing is a male dominated sport. So, two accomplished female racers from Seattle; Traci Cole and Tracy Landboe, came up with the idea for W.O.W. I happily jumped [...]