November 16th. First Race Of The Season! REGISTER HERE

New Winter Hours Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Generous Paddle Racers Helping The Community With Their Paddles

Surfski's racing around the Marin Islands

Surfski's racing around the Marin Islands

Bright Blue skies and balmy 65 degrees air temps made today’s race feel more like a Southern California affair. While it’s pretty clear at this point that climate change is real all we can do in the short term is make the best of it. 60 days of no rain in the dead of winter is definitely more than a wakeup call but we definitely made some lemonade out of the situation. (pictued Doug Hall, John Dye, and Kenny Howell in the choo-cho train draft. This is the order of finish for the masters division)


This year we dedicated our entire race series to giving back. With each race focused on helping a different charity this Saturdays race benefited a multicultural community center right here in San Rafael’s canal district. The San Rafael Canal Allianc is a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment. San Rafael would not be the same with out them. 

Racing took place in 5 disciplines. Outrigger Canoe, Surfski, Stand Up Paddleboard, Prone Padldeboard and kayaks. Once again the River Town crew was showing that training really does matter. Each successive race the improvement is visceral and inspirational. Grom power is in full force and bodes well for a fun future.(Below Jeff Broffman leads Jie Jiang, and Chris Matson)

SUP Racing on San Francisco Bay

The racing featured two courses both of which had mirror flat water and nearly windless conditions making for fast times. The 2 mile short course is perfect for racers looking for an easy fun day while the more experienced paddlers tackled the 6 mile around the Marin Islands and back.
Over on the short course paddle of the day goes to Christophe Chevallier. The spirit of our race is good times and personal best competition so Chrisophe’s podium performance symbolizes what racing at 101 Surf Sports is all about. Why? He killed it on a 9’6 SUP and turned in a blistering 41 minute time doing it. NICE!

Thrilling finish of the day goes to SUP racer Pete Gauvin who used tactics to get the better of Bojan Benard nipping him at the finish line by half a board length. (Below Zach and Petri Alva racing for line honors with Brian Peterson on the prone in the back ground)

race02119223

Zach and Petri are gearing up for racing the USA Team Trials at Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova. This race is the deciding event for who will represent the USA in flatwater sprint racing overseas this
year. We think it just may be a prelude to bigger things to come for the Alva brothers. We hope to see more of the River Town Racers following their lead. It's a rare treat to have this event in our own backyard 

Can you help volunteer at the Team Trials? The event is looking for volunteers. More information here.

The inspirational paddle of the day was a tie between two moms. Jacqueline Bess and Ashley Taylor both took some time away from paddling to raise some youngin’s. Then after a few years of not paddling at all, like not even once, he showed up for their first paddle to race! Both got second place in their respective divisions and demonstrated you just need to be out there and that practice is totally overrated! (Below the long course start video - turn the volume down to avoid the loud countdown)

Thanks to everyone who raced we raised almost $2800 for the San Rafael Canal Alliance. We hope to see you at the next one!

Upcoming Events
March 19th – Charity Race #6 More Information
March 26th & 27th – Free Inflatable Demo Weekend More Information
April 2nd – Free Crissy Field Swap Meet More Information
April 9th – Free San Rafael Swap Meet More Information
April 16th – Open Water Rowing Open Ocean Race More Information
April 23rd – Earth Day Trash Clean Up. More Information

Memorial Day - California River Quest More Information

October 8th Sausalito Battle of the Bay More Information

PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY CLICK HERE

Results

Offsets - Long Course SUP 1 minute, Short Course boats 7 min, Short Course SUP 8 minutes

Course Name(s) Category Age Group Gender Time Rank Div Rank
Long    Zachary Alva Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 44:27.8 1 1
Long    Petri Alva Surfski/kayak 1 person Juniors male 44:28.6 2 1
Long    Doug Hall Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 46:37.2 3 2
Long    Ben Lawry Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 46:46.1 4 3
Long    Viorel Popa Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 48:06.8 5 4
Long    Albert Szilvasy Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 48:12.2 6 5
Long    John Dye Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 48:19.1 7 1
Long    Kenny Howell Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 48:26.5 8 2
Long    Tek Li, Eri Miyasaka Outrigger 2 person Open 18-55 mixed 49:47.7 9 1
Long    Alan Bodtker Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 51:15.5 10 3
Long    Paul Macintyre Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 51:19.8 11 4
Long    Jake Johnson Surfski/kayak 1 person Juniors male 51:38.9 12 2
Long    Raymond Brennan Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 51:44.7 13 5
Long    Claire Stabile, Chauncey Cody Outrigger 2 person Open 18-55 mixed 52:20.2 14 2
Long    Dimitry  Lerner Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 52:38.7 15 6
Long    Steve Streng Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 52:41.2 16 6
Long    Ian Rice Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 male 54:06.7 17 7
Long    Alan Dixon Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 55:41.9 18 9
Long Glenn Friedland Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 56:42 19 10
Long    Mary Ann King Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 female 58:45.3 20 1
Long    Andrew Chen Outirigger 1 person Open 18-55 male 59:35.7 21 1
Long    Amy Byers Surfski/kayak 1 person Open 18-55 female 59:41.7 22 2
Long    Avalon Johnson Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters female 00:20.5 23 1
Long    Mike Staninec Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 01:30.4 24 8
Long    Pete Gauvin SUP 14' Open 18-55 male 01:44.2 25 1
Long    Bojan Bernard SUP 14' Open 18-55 male 01:45.3 26 2
Long    Paul Randall Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 04:31.2 27 10
Long    Brian Peterson Prone Open 18-55 male 04:57.9 28 1
Long    Diana Surber, Richard Lee Smith Surfski/kayak 2 person Masters 56+ mixed 05:24.7 29 1
Long    Dave Hook Outirigger 1 person Masters 56+ male 06:33.6 30 1
Long    Thane Jennings Outirigger 1 person Masters 56+ male 07:06.5 31 2
Long    Vincent Fallourd SUP 14' Open 18-55 male 08:43.0 32 3
Long    Geoffrey Sears Surfski/kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 09:54.6 33 11
Long    Jie Jiang SUP 14' Open 18-55 male 10:41.1 34 4
Long    Chris Matson SUP Inflatable Open 18-55 male 10:42.8 35 1
Long    Jeff Broffman SUP 14' Masters 56+ male 13:45.4 36 1
Long    Jeff Cleeland SUP 14' Masters 56+ male 16:07.3 37 2
Long    Madeleine King SUP 12'6  Masters 56+ female 16:24.3 38 1
Long    Geoff Schwarten SUP 12'6  Open 18-55 male 16:51.8 39 1
Long    Jack Charlesworth SUP 12'6  Juniors male 23:13.6 40 1
Long    Jacqueline Besse SUP 12'6  Open 18-55 female 23:20.5 41 1
Long    Maryanne  Steurer SUP 14' Masters 56+ female 25:34.9 42 1
Long    Melina Linder SUP 14' Masters 56+ female 40:37.9 43 2
               
short    Rowan Ferraro SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors male 27:48.9 1 1
short    Caetano Walsh SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors male 27:53.7 2 2
short    Aidan Fusco SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors male 27:56.9 3 3
short    Leah Ahmed SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors female 28:10.6 4 1
short    Sebastian Kauffman SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors male 28:11.1 5 4
short    Ariel Bryant SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors female 29:24.2 6 2
short    Beck Geiser SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors male 31:49.1 7 5
short    Lily Cruz SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors female 32:14.8 8 3
short    Audrey Johnson SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors female 32:36.2 9 4
short    Zoe Rice SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors female 33:18.7 10 5
short    Thade Hutchins SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors male 33:19.3 11 6
short    Clifford Sheppard SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Masters 56+ male 33:21.6 12 1
short    Annie Valdes SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Open 18-55 female 36:15.9 13 1
short    Isabella  Lofaro SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Juniors female 37:41.6 14 6
short    Elizabeth McBride SurfSki/Kayak 1 person Masters 56+ female 38:12.7 15 1
short    Trey Strickland  SUP 14 Open 18-55 male 41:04.2 16 1
short    Maribella Ibarra SUP 12'6  Masters 56+ female 42:11.5 17 1
short    Mette Hansen SUP 14 Masters 56+ female 43:20.0 18 1
short    Tracy Radcliffe SUP 12'6  Open 18-55 female 45:07.4 19 1
short    Ashley Taylor SUP 12'6  Open 18-55 female 48:19.7 20 2
short    Christophe Chevallier SUP Under 12ft 6" Masters 56+ male 48:54.6 21 1