Winter paddling 2018 JK Antix in Maine, USA by Adam Swett | Apr 8, 2018 | Antix, Internationalisation, United States, Video, WhitewaterWinter 2018 has been a bear up here in Maine this year coming in like a lion and going out like a lion. The season gripped the Northeast U.S. with frigid temperatures and didn’t let go for around six weeks. It felt like forever. We did get out once in January in...
Fall Paddling Maine in the Rockstar at T wave by Adam Swett | Dec 12, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Antix, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, United States, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe T wave is my favorite place to paddle here in Maine. This spring and summer the wave/hole never came in as the river was way to high for months, then went too low overnight. Bummer………… This spot is finicky with complicated pond levels and...
Rockstar Surf Madison, Maine by Adam Swett | May 14, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, United States, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThis wave is easily my favorite spot in Maine. Madison is in central Maine on the Kennebec River and best flows are around 19k to 25k on the USGS gauge. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/me/nwis/uv?site_no=01047150 The wave here usually doesn’t come in much or comes in...
Squirtboating Maine by Adam Swett | Mar 17, 2017 | Video, WhitewaterThe New Wave Vulcan and Shred are repaired and drying in the cellar as paddling season approaches here in Maine. Chuck just sold me the Shred and the Vulcan, my favorite, isn’t even mine. Maybe soon Mike will sell it. These are two of the three squirt boats I...
Summer Dreams Penobscot River by Adam Swett | Feb 21, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe winter of 2017 has been a good one up here in Maine. It has been mild for the most part which means 30 degrees during the day and there has been some good ocean surf as well. Winters here can be severely cold and snowy but this one has allowed for some good...
Antix in the Surf! by Adam Swett | Feb 10, 2017 | Antix, Internationalisation, Playboating, United States, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesI was able to get the new Antix out in the ocean waves off the coast of Maine this winter and it was a blast to paddle the new design in the beach break. It has a ton of speed for catching surfs or breaking through the piles to get outside. The rocker handles the...
Antix in Maine winterboating by Adam Swett | Feb 3, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Internationalisation, United States, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe large Antix got up here in Maine the same time a winter vacation I was planning on dedicating to snowboarding. It has been warm and rainy and the atlantic ocean has been cooperating so off we went to Blue Hill Falls. I didn’t think this boat would surf the...
Late summer creeking? Madison and T-wave! by Adam Swett | Aug 24, 2014 | WhitewaterI was so skeptical looking at an extended weather forecast that some projected heavy rain would amount to anything I left all my boats up at the river an hour north of my house. I was in the middle of my summer vacation and couldn’t possibly get that lucky in...
Racing the Karma in the Maine WW Championships by Adam Swett | Aug 21, 2014 | WhitewaterThe second leg of the Maine Whitewater Chamionships took place here in northern Maine last month and went off without a hitch! http://www.mainewwc.com/results/2014-results/ We finally had some bigger water up here to challenge us but experienced less of a competitor...
Racing the Kennebec and Grand Falls Huckfest by Adam Swett | Jul 17, 2014 | WhitewaterThe Maine Whitewater Championship started on the Kennebec river on Saturday with a solid turn out and fluffy levels. http://www.mainewwc.com/ Racers where challenged with 6500cfs for the time trial and elected to wait until afternoon for the mass start downriver race...
Stillwater River Twave by Adam Swett | Jun 1, 2014 | WhitewaterLast week I was out everyday at the Twave on the Stillwater River. It’s just down the street from my house so I was able to get chores done and surf my ass off. Plus shoot a ton of footage from different angles. I did end up there by myself which isn’t...
Madison Wave by Adam Swett | May 7, 2014 | WhitewaterThe Madison wave is so fun to surf that the wait in-between your last surf and next can be excruciating. This for me is truth because of shear excitement, energy and potential for something to take place there, out on the wave you did not expect....
