My Training Blog by Elmore

Fall usually means low water levels in the lower Mississippi basin, and with that comes dredging.  For the last couple of weeks there h...

I apologize to anybody who has wandered onto this blog only to find nothing new.  Some of the out-of-the-boat aspects of life have seized my...

I took my repaired V12 down to the riverfront yesterday and paddled with Joe in the harbor for some 70 minutes.  It had been an entire week ...

Do you ever get so engrossed in some project that you start seeing reminders of it in the most unlikely places?  Such as in your dreams...

I completed the epoxy work by covering each of the tube ends in the cockpit with a piece of fiberglass, mostly to leave a slightly nicer-loo...

As I mentioned at the outset of this project, I had to cut a big hole in the deck of my boat so I could perform surgery on the rudder-line t...

Still to be done in this boat repair project are cementing those rudder-line tubes in place and doing something about that hole I cut in the...

Using some ropes suspended from the ceiling, I've positioned my boat at a comfortable work height: The old lines had some useful i...

As I've mentioned in recent posts, I was unable to thread new rudder lines in my six-year-old Epic V12 surf ski because, I believed, the...

On Sunday I felt remarkably good for the day after a race, with no soreness to speak of.  I gave myself a couple of days off before making i...

Here's a video clip of Saturday's race shot by Tom Taylor.  He was posted along the course some 2000 meters from the finish.  The K3...

At about this time two years ago I took my trusty whitewater boat down to the harbor for a couple of weeks of intense practice.  My race ...

Racers gathered yesterday morning on the Pelahatchie Bay portion of Barnett Reservoir for the annual Gator Bait Race.  This weekend the eyes...

I'm spending tonight in Jackson, Mississippi, ahead of the Gator Bait Race on Barnett Reservoir tomorrow morning.  I've just been t...

At the race on Center Hill Reservoir eight days ago, the tandem surf ski pair of Justin and Bella Burd had one of those Go Pro cameras mo...

I'll be spending this coming week trying to get some rest and polish up my speed for my last competition of the year, the Gator Bait Rac...

Hot muggy weather has returned to the Mid South, albeit not as bad as what we had in July and August.  We should get another break soon, and...

What we have here is the stern end of the tubes that contain the rudder lines for my six-year-old surf ski.  Trouble is, anything that en...

It was a sunny day in Middle Tennessee for my race on Center Hill Reservoir yesterday.  The reservoir is part of the Cumberland River system...

As I wear a frown over my whole rudder-line predicament, there are reasons to manage a smile, too.  For one, we're finally getting a bre...