Paddlers from all over the world gather Sept. 4-6 for the Queen Liliuokalani Canoe Races in West Hawaii. You can catch much of the starting action at Kailua Pier, where there will also be a craft fair and product booths.
Here’s the schedule:
* Saturday: Waa Kaukahi (single hull canoes)
The women start this event paddling 18 miles from Kailua Bay to Honaunau. The men then bring it back 18 miles to Kailua Bay. The Ironman divisions do so with no changes.
* Sunday: Waa Kaulua (double hull canoes)
The men and the women tie together two single hull canoes to make  …  Details
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A fish out of water sent a Texas kayaker onto dry land instead of the finish line at an annual Missouri River endurance race.
Houston resident Brad Pennington was considered one of the favorites among men’s solo racers in the Missouri River 340, a canoe and kayak race that began Tuesday morning in Kansas City, Kan. At least until a 30-pound Asian silver carp jumped from the water and hit him in the head. The fish are known to panic and jump in response to passing vessels.
“It felt like a brick hit me,” Pennington said Wednesday.
Speedsolving the Rubik’s Cube while freefalling from 4300 meters, sitting in a rubber boat. This is the first attempt and worked really well – I solved the cube in about 31,5 seconds. I started right after exit and was finished at about 2500 meters. At 2300 meters I accidentally slipped out of the boat.
The skydive was videotaped by five cameras (two on-board, three outside the boat).
For the 2010 USSSC race, the US Surfski Championships will be held August 21st and 22nd. We received some very good feedback on the revised 2009 course and will run the same course for 2010. This puts us right in the middle of the San Francisco Bay Area’s windy season and let’s us take advantage of the summer afternoon winds that funnel though the Golden Gate. The single surfski long course (view course map) has been changed from the past format with the start and finish lines at the same location to a point-to-point mostly downwind race. The course starts at historic Fort Baker , makes a trip out the Golden Gate to the ocean, turns on a buoy past Point Bonita , and then finishes with a long downwind run past Angle Island on the way across San Francisco Bay to the finish at OCSC Sailing School in Berkeley. In addition to challenging conditions, the course offers spectacular scenery with views of the Golden Gate Bridge , Alcatraz Island , the Marin Headlands , and the San Francisco skyline  … Details