Aloha,
MAPA hosted the 5th annual Paddle for the Lynnhaven River yesterday.
Beautiful weather and happy paddlers set this up to be an excellent way to welcome the opening of paddling season here in Virginia Beach.
Race proceeds went 100% to help keep the Lynnhaven River moving towards a healthy recovery.
Hats off to the MAPA crew for being ecologically active and putting this race on.
They have taken on the responsibility for the other local fun-fund raiser, The Paddle for the Bay in July, as well.
This is the first time since I started paddling at the Lynnhaven River event that I wasn’t hanging out with my more reclined paddling ohana…today I stood up!
Two paddlers SUP’d the flat-water and light winds out on a shorter 3mile course. After the gang got back from the 7 mile race we had a fun SUP demo session with the new SUP race quiver on the Lynnhaven. You can check out my neanderthal kin evolving into the higher SUP lifeforms on the MAPA/Shutterfly link.
It’s official; now that we have been stoked with boards and paddles by Freedom Surf of Virginia Beach, the beginning of the ECORA sanctioned Stand-Up-Paddle Eastcoast-Racing series will kick off next weekend at the Buckroe Beach OC-1/OC-2 race.
Unless you have something to race on already, we will be competing on a level playing field with regards to equipment.
The Jimmy Lewis 12’6” Distance boards go very well and I can’t wait till we are all working the bumps in a full on effort.
The S.U.P.E.R. series will run in conjunction with our OC-1/2 races, with points, trophies and eventual series champions for the men and women.
Throughout the race season we will have schwag and prizes provided to all SUP racers by Freedom Surf, O’Neill, DaKine and Revision eyewear.
The concept is to introduce, in a racing format, the ancient form of Hawaiian stand-up paddle surfing to the east coast outrigger community.
We will figure out each event’s course the day of racing and exploit the wind and wave as much as possible to keep this fun.
As the season progresses we will ramp up the distance and eventually have a single day championship.
Look for weekly updates on the ECORA website and the S.U.P.E.R. website.
A Hui Ho,
MAPA hosted the 5th annual Paddle for the Lynnhaven River yesterday.
Beautiful weather and happy paddlers set this up to be an excellent way to welcome the opening of paddling season here in Virginia Beach.
Race proceeds went 100% to help keep the Lynnhaven River moving towards a healthy recovery.
Hats off to the MAPA crew for being ecologically active and putting this race on.
They have taken on the responsibility for the other local fun-fund raiser, The Paddle for the Bay in July, as well.
This is the first time since I started paddling at the Lynnhaven River event that I wasn’t hanging out with my more reclined paddling ohana…today I stood up!
Two paddlers SUP’d the flat-water and light winds out on a shorter 3mile course. After the gang got back from the 7 mile race we had a fun SUP demo session with the new SUP race quiver on the Lynnhaven. You can check out my neanderthal kin evolving into the higher SUP lifeforms on the MAPA/Shutterfly link.
It’s official; now that we have been stoked with boards and paddles by Freedom Surf of Virginia Beach, the beginning of the ECORA sanctioned Stand-Up-Paddle Eastcoast-Racing series will kick off next weekend at the Buckroe Beach OC-1/OC-2 race.
Unless you have something to race on already, we will be competing on a level playing field with regards to equipment.
The Jimmy Lewis 12’6” Distance boards go very well and I can’t wait till we are all working the bumps in a full on effort.
The S.U.P.E.R. series will run in conjunction with our OC-1/2 races, with points, trophies and eventual series champions for the men and women.
Throughout the race season we will have schwag and prizes provided to all SUP racers by Freedom Surf, O’Neill, DaKine and Revision eyewear.
The concept is to introduce, in a racing format, the ancient form of Hawaiian stand-up paddle surfing to the east coast outrigger community.
We will figure out each event’s course the day of racing and exploit the wind and wave as much as possible to keep this fun.
As the season progresses we will ramp up the distance and eventually have a single day championship.
Look for weekly updates on the ECORA website and the S.U.P.E.R. website.
A Hui Ho,
Dukey
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