Can't comment on the trees. Haven't been up there lately. 0.6m on the Dolauhirion gauge has always been a nice level. Paddled it at 0.43m and it still went with very little scraping. Was low though. We always get on further up at the bridge at Gallt-y-bere. It's a bit of a pain because they fenced o...

Yes you really don't want to land at The Strand slipway anywhere near low tide. Spring or neap, doesn't seem to make much difference. It's been getting worse over the years, slowly silting up higher and higher. I once spent a half hour in the toilets trying to wash the mud off my legs and my paddle ...

I was driving along the Wye and happened to notice that the normal parking area for the take out at Boughrood has been totally redeveloped. The old school is replaced with a new one, the car park has moved and there is an entrance barrier now. Not sure how this will pan out in the long term, but it ...

Do you have any information about put-in/take outs for this river? Hoping to give it a go this weekend (levels permitting) but information seems scant.

Tried to paddle the Tywi yesterday 5th Nov 2017. The tree is a total river blockage in a really difficult location. I tagged the grid ref as SN765410. It is in the second gorge just below the cottage at Dol-Goy. Was very difficult to spot with the sun in our eyes and very few good eddies to drop int...

Are these still for sale?

I have an old style Mamba 8.5 (What is now the MX), and despite being 6ft I often feel that I sit a little low in the boat. Anyone know if the seat can be raised? I can't see anything obvious. Any other common methods for adjusting your height in the boat?

Have found the Middle Wye - Builth to Boughrood actually improves with less water. Ran it twice last year when everything else was empty. With the Builth gauge showing 1m the river was actually quite fun and still not a scrape. Second time with the Builth gauge at 1.35m it got a lot flatter and more...

Yeah The Hard in Queenborough is definitely the best launch for that area. Parking next to the pub right by The Hard or just drop it across the road in the public car park. Perfect. Done it a number of times.

My lenses are also daily disposable lenses. They are also multi-focal (because I'm getting old and am now long and short sighted). My understanding is daily disposables mitigate the risk of infection substantially because nothing builds up on the lenses so quickly that it can cause you any real prob...

Plenty of people seem to wear specs whilst paddling WW and get on with them fine from what I've seen. They paddle harder stuff than I do which is generally up to Gd3+. Personally getting water on my glasses drives me absolutely crazy, even the rain drives me nuts, so I always wear contacts (I wore t...

I think most modern paddle sport dry suits are using plastic zips now, with th TiZip being the most common. Plastic toothed zips are also being successfully used by some of the top companies like kokatat. I wouldn't be concerned about it.

Watched from FB a week or so back. Really great.

I think actually you're asking about two separate things. The Kokatat is Goretex, and that drives the price. Most Goretex suits are in the £1000 range. Bargains may be found but that's the RRP by and large. That's what you're paying for. So the questions is do you want or need a Goretex suit? Person...

I think age is a big factor to consider. I hurt my shoulder and elbow quite badly a couple of years ago and it really impacted my paddling. Ignored it for too long, then went to physio. Took maybe 3 months off paddling. Physio managed to fix the elbow but couldn't seem to fix the shoulder so went to...

Ran this on Saturday at a pretty solid mid level. 3 WW canoes and 2 trad canoes. Sadly my WW canoe sustained some damage during the run. Something sharp punch into the hull, peeling back the outer layer of Royalex and cracking the hull. We're not sure exactly where it happened but we noticed it duri...

Have run that section several times at 1.35m on the Pont Robert gauge (which is at 1.83m today). That's always been a fun level, but not too intense. We are mostly in canoes. I would anticipate another 50cm being pretty full on. You can see the level we paddled it here... https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Which section are you intending to paddle?

Anyone paddled the Cothi recently? What access points did you use? Any issues paddling?

What put-in and take-outs are people using for the Gwili (the one that runs into the Twyi) now?

Rainchasers gives some very confusing information. Looks like someone's back yard for the put-in and there is a confusing comment about the take-out.

Correction to my above post, the wire across the river is before the second mini gorge.

Electric fence wire now strung across the river somewhere between the end of the second mini gorge (where the tree blockage sill is) and the Dolauhirion bridge rapid. At low level (0.4m on the Dolauhirion gauge) it was about 2-3 feet off the water so easy enough to go under. Higher water it will be ...

I have a Katana 10.4 and regularly load it on horizontal roof bars. I have the Palm roof bar pads the boat is upside down, bow first with the cockpit rim just resting across the front bar. It never moves. I'm struggling to imagine what's going on with yours.

I'm not sure if I'm missing the point here, or if everyone else is. Whilst Vimeo certainly used to be the way to go re-music because of their lack of enforcement, Youtube seems to have rather overtaken them, and a considerable amount of copyright music is now permitted to be used through agreements ...

You're right Jim, this is what it says... "To keep the LCD, keypad and speaker grill clean and in top operating condition after exposure to water: Clean the radio with fresh water after exposure to salt water by rinsing the radio under a sink faucet or by dunking the radio in a bucket of fresh water...

Paddling on the weekend in fairly choppy breezy conditions, my new Standard Horizon VHF, attached to the front of my BA got a pretty good dousing in salt water. I wiped it clean once back at home. Does anyone else bother to do this? Should I be doing more to keep it clean? I know it's waterproof and...

Hoping to try one on soon, but the various reviews I read/watched (Google a few) claim that it has been well designed so that the zip fits nicely between the back rest and the seat, and is really not noticeable. http://www.nattycordonkayaking.com/kit-reviews/first-thoughts-on-the-new-kokatat-idol-2-...

On that basis don't rule out the new Kokatat Idol which comes apart fully at the waist and has had some good reviews. I'm also considering that one.

http://kokatat.com/products/dry-suits/g ... y-men.html

Or just ask the original coach? I just did. Apparently it wasn't an actual product, but was a collection of maps extracted from this book... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruising-Anglesey-Adjoining-Waters-Morris/dp/1846234417/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427999704&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=anglesey+sailing...

It's not just the Menai I'm interested in. I can think of a dozen similar places where more accurate, close range tidal stream information would be very useful, if was made available. I just wondered if what I saw was part of a larger range of maps/atlases which covered other areas as well, but sinc...