2023: The Blackburn Challenge, held on July 15 this year, is the premier human-powered open-water event on the East Coast. One of the reasons why this event has been recognized as one of the best open water races in America is due to the venue ‘ a 20+ mile circumnavigation of Cape Ann Massachusetts ‘ a course that inevitably serves up a wide variety of conditions on the water.

Nick Robinson finished first in FIXED SEAT SINGLE MEN

3 hours 27 min 23 sec shaving off 1 minute and 10 seconds from last years time (3 hours 28 min 33 sec) and increasing the spread with Belfast's 6 oared fixed seat (Cornish Pilot Gig) from 2 min 5 sec to a whopping 11 min 42 sec!