CU Team Rider Paddles Across America
Article and Photography by Tara Thomas. Well, it had to happen at some point! One too many New England winters (and there has only been one full one), with gray skies for weeks on end and bone chilling temperatures, and it was a pretty simple decision to move west when the opportunity came about. Skiing powder in the ‘best snow on Earth”, or freezing your butt off with...
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Ta-Hoe Nalu Festival
Article and Photography by team rider, Kim James. Wow! What a race weekend! The Ta-Hoe Nalu festival was held at King’s Beach CA, north of Lake Tahoe. We were at 6,229 ft elevation on the lake, which is 22 miles long and 12 miles wide. In normal situations this would have been a beautiful flat water race, but that was not the case! The weather to start the first of the five races...
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Newport Now – What’s SUP?
Excerpt from Newport-now.com, by Tom Shevlin. Paddlers approach their mark just south of the Newport Bridge in the first Newport SUP Cup, presented by Coastal Urge on Saturday (Photo by Tom Shevlin) NEWPORT, R.I. – More than 90 participants took to the water on Saturday for Newport’s first ever SUP Cup (that’s “stand up paddleboard” for those who missed our preview...
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Newport SUP Cup Recap
Article and Photography by Tara Thomas. Coastal Urge put on quite the show this weekend in Newport, RI. The 1st Annual Newport SUP CUP impressed not only the race organizers, but the locals, tourists, and four-legged friends alike with the number of boards present on the beach in King’s Park at 08:30 on Saturday morning. Sixteen experienced paddlers turned out for the Elite...
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Newport SUP Cup Race Results
ELITE Results Elite SUP Men’s 12′6″ & Under Jersey # Last First Time Division Place 82 Lloy Tommy 0:59:51 Elite SUP Men’s 12′6″ & Under 1 56 Kenworthy Jason 1:03:46 Elite SUP Men’s 12′6″ & Under 2 62 Nunnery Michael 1:05:33 Elite SUP Men’s 12′6″ &...
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