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McGregor & Furby win 2-day Downwind in Durban
Zinkwazi Beach – With a tough overnight deficit to overturn the pair of Hank McGregor and Lee Furby paddled like men possessed as they stormed to overall victory on the second stage of the Gara Dolphin...
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Hank McGregor and Hayley Nixon Favorites for Durban Series
Durban, South Africa – The Durban surfski fraternity will once again be treated to a spectacle when the country’s best surfski stars battle it out over the 10-leg FNB Surfski Series as world leaders...
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FNB Series - Now for Bouman and Nixon!
Durban, South Africa - Having played runners-up in the opening two encounters of the series, Matt Bouman and Hayley Nixon shrugged off the bridesmaids tag to take their first wins respectively at the...
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Hartley and McGregor Dominate - again!
Durban - Hundreds of paddlers turned out on Addington Beach once again at the Borland Surfski Challenge, presented by Marriot. Race 6 of the 2017 FNB Surfski Series with all the participants revelling...
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Molokai! Registrations open for the 2017 Event
If you've never done the Molokai Challenge... C'mon, you've got to get your backside over to Hawaii - it's still the holy grail of Surfski paddling. AND this year, the following weekend sees US$50K...
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Some real downwind ski-porn here as the Think Team paddles the Dragon Run before the 2017 ICF Ocean Racing World Championships in Hong Kong a few weeks ago.
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World Surfski Series Rankings Updated
The World Surfski Series rankings have (finally) been updated. With just one (title) race to go, it seems certain that Hank McGregor will have successfully defended his title, while Rachel Clarke, if...
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More Durban Downwind...!
More from Durban-based downwind enthusiast Sharon Armstrong... Conditions were unbelieveable a few days ago in Durban... Sharon did the Durban to Umhlanga run in a 30kt breeze. The really...
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To go or not to go, extreme downwind decisions!
I missed out on a cracking Miller’s Run on Sunday. It wasn’t a total loss – I had fun photographing the paddlers who did go – but it made me reflect on how we make decisions, especially when there’s...
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Extreme Self-rescue
As he fell off his ski yet again, Tim Wightman felt panic starting to well up. If he didn’t get back on and paddling in the next few moments, the gale-force wind and breaking waves would drive him...
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Fenn Cape Point Challenge 2017 – what you need to know
Two days out from the race, the weather forecast seems to have settled on a moderate southeaster for Saturday morning, which is good news for the paddlers! 25th Cape Point Challenge The race is one of...
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Fenn Cape Point Challenge - Race Report
As he followed Jasper Mocke inside the rocks at Cape Point, 22-year-old Kenny Rice glanced back, looking for race favourite and defending champion Hank McGregor. He was nowhere to be seen. “Game on!”...
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Oscar Chalupsky - Miller's Run on the Nelo 520
So... the big O is in town. I haven't seen him yet, on the day we were supposed to paddle, he was delayed, playing golf! But I left his Nelo 520 at the club and he did a Miller's Run by himself......
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Doubles Downwind
The Miller's Run may be the best known of the downwind runs in Cape Town, South Africa, but there are plenty of others... This video was shot just to the north of Cape Town's city centre, on another...
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Gale-force Durban Downwind
Durban resident Sharon Armstrong paddles a Carbonology Sport Zest surfski (and owns two of them, a full-carbon and a hybrid version). "Due to the fact that my passion lies in downwinding in winds...
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"The BEST Downwind" DAZ in Perth
Darryl Khng (DAZ) lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a prolific downwinder as his YouTube account testifies. This video was shot in Perth on a run from Point Peron to South Beach, south of...
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Ze Race - 50km Downwind in Guadaloupe
"Why go all the way to Guadeloupe?" I asked Nelo Surfski CEO Oscar Chalupsky. "We sold a lot of skis there," he replied, "and it's a lot warmer than Porto!" Oscar Chalupsky leaves his home Portugal...
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Surfing the Bundeena Bar - Sea Kayaks!
I don't usually list non-surfski videos, but this one is exceptional. The location is Bundeena: a village on the outskirts of southern Sydney (29 km south of the Sydney central business district), in...
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Oskar Speck's 30,000 Mile Paddle
Until recently I thought Freya Hoffmeister, with her 27,000km multi-year voyage around South America held the record for the longest trip ever. Not so! Vanity Fair just published a remarkable story...
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#mockemillersrunoftheseason - Pete Holloway's 89th!
Peter Holloway got into surfskis in the late 90s, using a series of hand-me-down boats for playing in the waves... but around that time Fish Hoek saw a series of encounters between Great White Sharks...
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