Race – Ventura Canoe & Kayak Club

Fall Update 2025

Drew Story — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:59:31 +0000

We wrote in our Summer Update about getting a new double kayak from Hody Sports. This K-2 is a “touring” or training boat, being a bit wider and much more stable than the racing K-2s we also have. This boat we had thought would be in Seattle for us to pick up at Nationals in August but instead, it didn’t arrive in a shipping container from Hungary until this Fall. We were stuck wondering if we’…

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Summer Update 2025

Drew Story — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:49:17 +0000

The club has had a very busy summer! Here are some of the highlights – While we also purchased new equipment, we sold a great deal of our older inventory this summer. We found new homes for two surfskis, five kayaks, and one canoe, plus a few of our oldest paddles. This older equipment had largely gone unused – some items for several years – and all of it will now get regular use…

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Spring 2024 Club Update

Drew Story — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:39:56 +0000

Spring and early summer are the primary recruiting times of new athletes for our club. While one can indeed paddle year round in southern California, the water in the Ventura Harbor gets cold enough that only the very hardy would consider a sport where one is likely to be swimming a fair amount of the time at the start. Just before our local school district went on Spring Break…

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Winter 2024 Update

Drew Story — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:16:23 +0000

Workouts Winters are viewed as the “off season” for many in the sprint paddling world, largely because local water areas may actually be frozen over. Being in sunny and relatively warm California, we can paddle year round. Advanced paddlers and our coaches paddle early on some weekday mornings, even before sunrise, but generally speaking, our club meets just once a week during the winter months…

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Fall 2023 Update

Drew Story — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:57:22 +0000

This Fall, we finally got club members to a race! The Off Da Couch race in Newport Beach, hosted by the Newport Aquatic Center in honor of Sam Couch, gave our club an opportunity to do a short distance race in flat water with a large group of competitors in singles of all kinds. There were 100 boats finishing and most of our club members took home a medal and more importantly…

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2022 Summer Update

Drew Story — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:23:10 +0000

The Turkeys were again represented at the US Nationals as two members of the Ventura Canoe & Kayak Club went to Cincinnati, Ohio, for the competition the first week of August. Drew Story and Ed Goldthwaite, both Masters, competed in the canoe singles, doubles, and fours. Unfortunately, neither Ed nor Drew reached a podium at this regatta. The Masters division was more competitive than it has…

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What’s it like to race at the US Nationals?

Drew Story — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:21:21 +0000

For some sprint paddlers in America, the only regatta they will attend all year will be the US Nationals. There may be a club putting on a race near enough for some to attend, or a distance race that a sprint boat can be entered in and raced, but due to the small size of our sport, this could also be the only major race one has to look forward to here in America. This post will provide coaches…

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Preparations for the 2017 Nationals

Drew Story — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:44:26 +0000

The Sprint Canoe and Kayak National Championships will be held in Clermont, Florida, hosted by the South Florida Canoe and Kayak Club. This will be the first time the Nationals have been held in Florida, much less at this venue. Details about the Nationals may be found at the 2017 Sprint Nationals site. The Ventura Olympic Canoe Club has secured housing for the event thanks to our friends at…

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