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41. Molokai 2007 Update - Two days to go
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Author : Rob Mousley Prize money allocation for the race was finally announced yesterday at a press conference preceded by a race blessing ceremony... Jodi Young Wilmot, race spokesperson, said the money would be split equally between OC1 and Surfski competitors.
Friday, 18 May 2007 |  2880 hit(s) | (10 votes)

42. Molokai 2007 - weather forecast
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Author : Rob Mousley The Molokai Challenge is famous for its huge downwind conditions – and for this reason many paddlers consider it to be the holy grail of surf ski paddling. Typically a 15-20kt ENE wind blows across the Molokai Channel and paddlers ride 10ft swells with 20-30ft faces. But the weather forecast for the 2007 race shows a very d...
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |  3755 hit(s) | (10 votes)

43. Molokai - Wildrich's Pre-race Report
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Author : Richard von Wildemann Hawaii - 15 May 2007.  The Molokai Channel is the dream of every downwind ski paddler on the planet. The bluest water I have ever seen, 3 pound flying fish, vertical cliffs plunging directly into the ocean all make up a small part of the Hawaiian paddling experience. So I find myself extremely fortunate to be apart of the 2007 version, a...
Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |  3427 hit(s) | (5 votes)

44. Molokai - video
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Author : Rob Mousley With just over a week to go before the Molokai World Championship race, most of the competitors are in Hawaii, training and reconnoitering the route. Oscar Chalupsky has been in Oahu for a week already and sent us this video clip made up of shots taken from his ski of Joe Glickman and Rene Appel.  
Saturday, 12 May 2007 |  4480 hit(s) | (12 votes)

45. Molokai – Aussie and US Squads
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Author : Rob Mousley The Molokai World Championship race this year has one of the strongest line-ups ever.  But who can offer the on-form South Africans a challenge? We spoke to some of the Aussie and Hawaiian paddlers who will be giving the Saffas a run for their money.
Thursday, 10 May 2007 |  3644 hit(s) | (4 votes)

46. Molokai - SA Squad Report
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Author : Rob Mousley One of the strongest South African squads ever is about to head for Hawaii to take part in this year's Molokai Challenge.  We caught up with some of the paddlers and asked them how their training was going.
Monday, 30 April 2007 |  5046 hit(s) | (3 votes)

47. Molokai Training 2007
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Author : Heather Nelson [Editor - I found this on Heather Nelson's blog.  She kindly gave us permission to use it on surfski.info.  Check out her blog - Heather (with her partner, Brandon) is an ultra-marathon paddler of note.]   The Kaiwi Channel is known to be one of the most volatile ocean channels in the world.  It is also home to...
Monday, 23 April 2007 |  4834 hit(s) | (15 votes)

48. Molokai Facts and Figures
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Author : Rob Mousley The 2007 Molokai Challenge takes place in a month's time on May 20th.  We went through the previous winners lists and found some interesting facts & figures. NB: Although the organisers flirted with the idea of waiving the escort boat restrictions, on reflection (and advice from the US Coast Guard), the escort boats have o...
Sunday, 22 April 2007 |  4610 hit(s) | (4 votes)

49. Oscar Chalupsky to use V10E for Molokai Challenge
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Author : Rob Mousley What's a V10E you might ask? According to Epic, it's E for Elite, but it may as well be E for Extreme - as in extreme lightness and stiffness of construction. The Epic website says that the skis were built with "super-lightweight unidirectional carbon pre-preg combined with Nomex honeycomb, with a very thin, clear gel coat". ...
Saturday, 21 April 2007 |  5283 hit(s) | (10 votes)

50. A ROSA BY ANY OTHER NAME
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Author : Joe Glickman When you think of the history of Molokai, the unofficial World Championship of open-ocean racing, you think of Oscar (11) and Herman Chalupsky (2), the brothers from Durban who have combined to win 13 titles, and Australians Dean Gardiner (9) and Grant Kenny (5). The only other man to have won this storied race in the last two decades is th...
Saturday, 10 March 2007 |  3802 hit(s) | (5 votes)

  
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