Certainly doesn't help, but I think you'll find staff costs are the biggest outlay at all artificial courses... Where do they make most of their money, as requirements for rec boaters, rafts & emergency services safety training are quite different? The course is owned by Canals & Rivers Trust, but m...

Plenty of rivers in CR, but getting around them is easier. These guys run trips, mostly boulder gardens: https://www.costaricarios.com/costa-rica-kayaking.html In Chile the main centres are big volume on the futaleufu, or waterfalls around pucon: https://puconkayakhostel.com/when-is-the-best-time-to...

Depends how much holiday you have - CR if only a week, Chile for 2 or 3.

Mike

Same as most other facilities, funds are available for set up, but not for running costs, so it has to pay it's way & most days won't.

Mike

I use zebralights, but obviously would sink if you drop them:
https://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/sh ... -my-choice

Mike

Indeed, if you change your plan, it may have them searching in the wrong area. The problem is we will never convince everyone of the seaworthiness of our "little boats". I agree there's no reason to leave a route plan at the campsite, but them knowing when you're expected back & that you have an eme...

No, it wouldn't necessarily prevent a call out, but you have then done everything within your power on that front. In this case the individual concerned obviously didn't know your plans, so they asked the campsite owner... & as far as I'm aware jack snipe have never been recorded breeding or display...

If you're leaving a tent or vehicle on the campsite then you should definitely inform the owner if not planning to return - they might even not charge you full price for the night!

& unlikely to have been a jack snipe, more likely a common snipe displaying over it's territory.

Mike

Any sea kayak will be useable, unless you don't fit in it, some will be nicer than others. Plastic is more forgiving for the excitement of rock hopping...

Mike

Upright or get an inflatable.

Mike

30kgs apparently:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7a3 ... oe&f=false

Mike

Is the dart running - NO - but the prediction is back online:
http://isthedartrunning.co.uk

Birnbeck pier at Weston super mare has an old walkway near it that can be used at low tide (although possibly not big spring lows). There is street parking or a pay & display nearby, but it is quite a steep carry to & from the water (steps beside the hotels on lower continuation of Birnbeck Road are...

http://www.getoutcanoeing.co.uk/acatalo ... age_2.html

http://www.unsponsored.co.uk/press/old- ... t-inferno/

http://playak.com/buyers-guide/boats-bo ... inferno-54

Paddling in Scoresby Sund on BBC2 now. Part 2 next Sunday.

Mike

May be better off ascending with the tide as get out points are limited at low. Either way you can't paddle against the main flow.

Mike

Says £34.72 at bottom for canoes or kayaks - better put a cabin on it for the cheapest price!

British canoeing just send you a membership card to carry with you now, it covers you for other waterways beyond canals & rivers trust, but not all that require licencing. Their magazine is online.

Mike

Hollowform river chasers were being used in 1974, seems they didn't have pillars (moulds later sold to Perception):
http://worldkayakblogs.com/billsblog/20 ... ayboating/

Ah, but was it a kayak or a canoe (in 1942)? The first fibreglass boats were only just being made then:
http://www.goodoldboat.com/reader_servi ... rglass.php

You can still buy new Valetas:
http://www.acecanoes.com/

& 1984 was about the time of first plastic sea kayaks.

Seems perception were the first to rotomould (& probably first in UK), but there were other designs before Mirage: https://kayakdave.com/2012/10/19/the-early-history-of-plastic-kayaks/ Fibreglass is more difficult to trace as they were initially home builds, but internet suggests late 195Os (however...

That has always been their opinion.

Mike

Could be a bad year for water levels:
https://www.snow-forecast.com/countries ... ca/resorts

Webcam pic from today, if you click on it the other piste is even worse:
https://www.onthesnow.co.uk/corse/webcams.html

Andy Holt will have finished his guided trips by then.

Mike

Just seen a video of the back end of a kayak "exploding" off whilst running a steep slide / waterfall, but it was a prototype...

With Palm's recycled sit on top:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... -episode-1

Mike

Same bits in: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Sear ... &kn=&isbn=

Or if your French is any good:
https://www.forum-kayak.fr/index.php?topic=5117.0

You have to deploy the antenna to access the test & activation buttons. I guess that if lots of people were testing them throughout the hour it might obscure a real emergency signal, so better to concentrate that into a short, easily remembered, period.

Another problem is you can't tell how deep the pool is from above (or possibly even if there is one!) & the stream may well smash you against the far wall at the level where it does back up... But, assuming you survived that, it might be possible to paddle around to where there are other ways out, w...