SimonMW wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:35 pm

I could say something about the island, but would probably be had for libel.

Spit it out then sunshine,I doubt the kayaking internet police are that hot ATM...

Regular readers of this forum will know (and not care) about my apathy towards new boat styles. I'm not especially aiming at Pyranha but they seem a good one to start with. What's so much better about 'version 2' of the 9R over 'version 1'. I didn't particularly notice Bren et al paddling rubbish i...

ultimate mission,
trying to find a half good looking girl in the pub after boating in the west highlands.

I went for an orange boat in the end, it rolls and boofs and hasnt broken when i hit a rock so i would say it is about up to standard with my old eurokayaks cypher which can never be a bad thing.

The idea, get a small van, drive out around mayish, follow the melt north, come back to the uk hopefully witgh the same kit that i left with around august after a few months of fun. Starting out chilled out in telemark and warming up as the season goes on. I will have the van and a spare seat,if you...

looking for genesis viii, anyone selling get in touch ondine1908(at)gmail(dot)com

cheers

chris

After taking a few years away from boating I am finally back on the water. Need to get a new creeker for winter time fun but am unsure about a few of these new brands, seems things have moved on since the days of the dragorossi fish... Can anyone tell me any gossip eg if certain brands are making bo...

thanks very much.

i dont do facebook or any of the social media thing, is there a club meeting?

i just moved to halifax area (sowerby bridge) and am getting back into kayaking after a lay off for a few years. keen for most stuff and up for trips to teeseide and hpp when the levels are low. give me a shout on 07534422241 or e mail me ar ondine1908[at]gmai..com

chris

please contact me at ondine1908(At)gmail.com if you know of any for sale. based in yorkshire

just bomb straight off the middle Banzer, you will be fine. Safety assessments are for the weak.

is this for sale still? please respond to ondine1908@gmail.com as i rarely use this forum.

Last time I checked that drop was about 7 foot deep after swimming around in the pool for a while dropping a throw bad full of stones in till it hit the bottom, 2 meters maximum. To be fair and play the devils advocate, if you are going to build a hydro scheme then it is a pretty good place to do so...

The thing is this-it is all very good putting up pictures of a nice red boat and a video of a green one, but until you have seen how ALL of the colors will paddle it is a very naive thing to do to order one and assume it will paddle the same(unless it is the same color as the one you have seen perfo...

On the Earn there are a fair few weirs and strainers-none spring to mind between comrie and crieff (although there is an evil staircase of weirs at the top of comrie) and a small rapid just at the bottom of the park in comrie-presumably where they would put on. It would be worth having a quick walk ...

Romantic story...however, he is a robbing wee shit who owe's me money along with a fair few others.

That opening sequence is amazing!

Great film.

Chris

Inchree?

You should get an easy start Tay-side, however, you will lose the will to live due to having to raft the most embarrassingly shit rivers available (anywhere in the world even?)... try Aviemore and f.bill based places and you will get to raft good river like the Garry and Findhorn and get to pack in ...

Surely if we are talking about "outside of UK" tickets then the Austrian one is the top rated alongside the NZ ticket?

Go IRF. BCU and SRA (despite the latter being IRF affiliated) are not very internationally recognised. Get your SRT as well as you will need this along with a first aid ticket. Muzza at Splash does IRF training, I think he will make you work for crap all money to progress with your ticket- but that ...

Check out going from the top of Loch Garry(starting just below the dam out of loch Quoich) down to Fort William-I have done the Kingy up there walking into it from Loch Arkaig side (not recommended) and the length of the loch afterwards. You will find awesome rapids right in the middle of the Loch, ...

banzer wrote:Nice!

Your second photo is definitely the Scottish River Garry on a dam fully-open moment...first corner. If you've done it you'll know what I mean!

I concur!

Will bump this and drop to 500 ONO.

Just classic, inspiring runs that are within the reach of an average 4+ish UK boater. Would I be correct in thinking that you are "an average 4+ish UK boater"? I would guess that the average UK boater paddles easier than 4+ish, and you've (probably inadvertently I'll give you) ruled out a significa...

Canny believe no one has mentioned Morrisons super market cafe in F. Bill...

Justin,

Is that the one that you paddled in your Kendo in 199x?

I concur, I have never seen the advantage of tape over a sling really. Was simply stating that on rivers we deal with such minimal fall factors etc it is not really worth comparing to the tests demonstrated in the video's. Also the fact that the rope that we use as throw lines will melt of put under...

I would love to see a situation on a river where a sling tied with a tape know would break considering the shock load that it would carry on a fall factor is still well below 1 for 99% of the time. I gave up on tape simply because tape knots are suck a pain in the ass to undo after bearing a signifi...

A good friend of mine who I run with uses one of the garmin forerunner 305 watches. This seems to have the edge on alot of other Garmin ones that get used as the battery life is longer and it doesn't get stung by the cold so much. The functions it has are very impressive and it seems very easy to lo...