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- Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:56 am
- Forum: Lost and Found
- Topic: Liquid Logic boat found in Blandford, Dorset
- Replies: 0
- Views: 714
Liquid Logic boat found in Blandford, Dorset
Found by a friend of mine - looks like it may have fallen off a roof rack onto the side of the road. Name 'Vicky Wright' inside with a phone number, but no reply when called...
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:10 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Kimmeridge incoming...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 837
Re: Kimmeridge incoming...
I thought that the ranges were out of use in July and August - I was camping along there on Friday night! Has their policy changed?
- Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Waterside Series
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2567
Re: Waterside Series
Don't hang about. The boat should not really stop moving. The temptation will be - especially on the longer races and ultimately DW - to just sit on the side for a few seconds more before getting in the boat. This is the path to the dark side, young Skywalker. Those few seconds turn into a minute, a...
- Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:08 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Winter Wye accommodation/ camping
- Replies: 10
- Views: 931
Re: Winter Wye accommodation/ camping
Farmer Bowen's field river left just up from Yat Rock. Used to charge £1 pppnt. There is a Whetherspoons in Monmouth - cheap and fairly cheerful. Forget what its called.
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:20 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Pool kayaks?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 749
Pool kayaks?
My club has some old pool kayaks - now pretty much beyond their sell-by date. We have a rotobat and some aquabats - if anyone remembers those! They were great back in the day, when the skills learned in them were easily transferable to boats on the river - which were usually Dancers or similar. I am...
- Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:42 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Kayaker finds WW2 bomb
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1230
Re: Kayaker finds WW2 bomb
Thank Heavens for natural selection... http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/10419941.Do_you_recognise_men_carrying_unexploded_tank_shells_they_d_picked_up_from_Dorset_beauty_spot_/ I think technically that they would be required to have removed themselves from the gene pool, for natural selection to be...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:37 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring Kayaks For Sale
- Topic: wanted lefty whitewater paddle.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 212
Re: wanted lefty whitewater paddle.
Where are you based? I have a left handed robson green - in red.
Vulch
Vulch
- Fri Jan 25, 2013 2:08 pm
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: dwrace 2013
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5587
Re: dwrace 2013
Does anyone know if the canal on the Waterside A course is frozen or not?
- Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:23 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Quastion on current access problems, North Wales?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4294
Re: Quastion on current access problems, North Wales?
cathalferris, Negotiations with the access agreement on the Dee are going well. We are reaching the final stages of the agreement now which will enable more paddling and also use for commercial river operators on payment of fees. We are also organising tours and events. Mike Dalton and Pete Carol o...
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:08 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Why are coaching awards so difficult? This is why.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2673
Re: Why are coaching awards so difficult? This is why.
Huge buckets of irony in the second part of my original post. My point is that the alleged intention of the change in the coaching system, has not had the intended effect. The majority of paddlers entering the sport do not pay through the nose for coaching, instead learning from other, more experien...
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:06 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Why are coaching awards so difficult? This is why.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2673
Why are coaching awards so difficult? This is why.
Historically it has been very difficult for more than a few people to MAKE A LIVING from coaching paddling. This was because coaching awards were fairly cheap and not very time-consuming. If you were a good paddler and did the Trainee level 3 course and paid attention and then did some coaching unde...
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:43 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Urban Myth???
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7003
Re: Urban Myth???
I remember hearing a tale about a guy who was banned from the BCU for life for somehting he did at the Washburn.... This guy supposedly put on at the resevoir above the dam when it was fairly high (water flowing over the spill way) and then paddled over it sliding down the very steep but smooth spi...
- Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:56 am
- Forum: England - Southwest
- Topic: River Stour - Canford School to Christchurch Quay
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12727
Re: River Stour - Canford School to Christchurch Quay
Schools are a difficult one. They have a very obvious higher duty of care towards the kids. Most parents wouldn't expect random people to be wandering through their kid's school. The security guard was simply doing his job. Just like the secretary at the front desk of every primary school in the cou...
- Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:45 am
- Forum: England - Southwest
- Topic: RIVER PIDDLE (Cuckoo Pound to Wareham)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9812
Re: Wool to Lake pier (Poole Harbour) Via Wareham
Right of navigation runs as far up as the Wareham bypass - this is the tidal limit. But with the legal nicities out of the way, it doesn't get paddled much as far as I know! I have paddled up above the bypass (some time ago) I think about a mile. Legend has it that the fisherfolk about those parts a...
- Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:27 am
- Forum: England - Southeast
- Topic: Kayaking the Thames - Cricklade to London... HELP!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7654
Re: Kayaking the Thames - Cricklade to London... HELP!
...I'm planning the same route over the Easter weekend 2013... The Easter weekend is usually the Devises to Westminster Canoe Race: http://www.dwrace.org.uk/ , so it'll be very busy. To be fair, its not actually that bad. By the time everyone gets down onto the Thames, its not actually that busy. L...
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:19 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Meridian seaboats
- Replies: 1
- Views: 691
Re: Meridian seaboats
Got one in my club. What do you want to know? Needs a rudder or skeg - not always fitted as standard, as I recall. Pleasantly quick. Characteristic upturned nose. flattish stern. Looks like it was designed from scratch by Kirton - not as much greenland influence as more popular designs. Hope this he...
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:57 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Do clubs and youth groups paddle on 'restricted' rivers?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1196
Re: Do clubs and youth groups paddle on 'restricted' rivers?
Yup.
All rivers are restricted.
Just to different extents.
All rivers are restricted.
Just to different extents.
- Tue May 15, 2012 8:38 pm
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Best GPS watch for marathon training?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1042
Re: Best GPS watch for marathon training?
Right! I've purchased a Garmin Forerunner 405 from fleabay. Seems pretty good so far, but I do need to fashion a deck mount for it. Like the idea of tethering it to the rudder cables too!
I will let you know the highs and lows. Just in case anyone ever reads this stuff.
Vulch
I will let you know the highs and lows. Just in case anyone ever reads this stuff.
Vulch
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:32 pm
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Best GPS watch for marathon training?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1042
Best GPS watch for marathon training?
Which is the best GPS watch for marathon training? I intend to mount it on the deck of the boat, so bulky shape is not really an issue. It obviously needs to be waterproof, and the screen needs to be readable at that distance. I also want to have actual speed on the display. Some watches apparently ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:04 am
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: DW 2012
- Replies: 195
- Views: 15066
Re: DW 2012
Has anyone paddled the Thameside 1 course this week? There are more flowing sections so it is unlikely to be as frozen as Race A, especially given the recent increase in temperature...
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:44 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: New car time (old car)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1772
Re: New car time (old car)
My first car was a Mini - excellent. Everything has been said above. My current car is a 110 Defender - excellent. Everything has been said above. You clearly know about them too. I've got a 200tdi in mine and swear by it. However, I have always wanted a Volvo Amazon. Link below. MPG is probably not...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:51 am
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Quick questionnaire :-)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 838
Re: Quick questionnaire :-)
'Tis done.
- Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:14 am
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Long distance training base
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1088
Re: Long distance training base
Yukon 1000 ? :) I don't think this post is really about Shaun and Sharon doing the Yukon, I'm afraid. Look at the other posts from the same person. This should be in the commercial adverts section. To be fair, it is probably just another paddler trying to make a living out of paddling, but veiling ...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:26 pm
- Forum: England - Southwest
- Topic: Dart Levels
- Replies: 2357
- Views: 90993
Re: Dart Levels - Now with added Twitter!
Was a few inches off the ledge when we left yesterday. It was the busiest I have ever seen the Loop in 20 years. Perhaps I just haven't paddled at weekends much, or perhaps people just don't search out other, quieter rivers any more.... Or perhaps the Loop was the only thing running yesterday... Vulch
- Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:47 am
- Forum: Courses, Trips and Guiding
- Topic: Tyn Cornell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1340
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: Mainstream Christians in Canoeing new web site.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3235
Re: Mainstream Christians in Canoeing new web site.
When I read this thread I bristled slightly. Not sure why. For some reason I felt that someone was ramming religion at me. So I had a think about it. If it had been someone linking to a Buddhist canoe club I would not have bristled. Why? It seems that I am a 'religionist' - or at least I was until I...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:07 pm
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Knysna Stiletto X K1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1564
Re: Knysna Stiletto X K1
Most Knysna boats are - how should I put this - a similar hull shape to that of a boat made closer to home... I'm not sure what the stiletto x is similar to, but I'm sure someone does! It might even be a Jaguar!
Vulch
Vulch
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:34 pm
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: K2 crew boat - which division to enter?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 606
K2 crew boat - which division to enter?
This from the BCU: 28) COMPETING IN A CREW BOAT A paddler is normally ranked on singles performances. When competing in doubles events the competition ranking shall normally be an average of the individual paddlers’ rankings (all halves rounded down). "all halves rounded down" - does this mean down ...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:00 am
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: High-backed seat in racing K1 what's the crack
- Replies: 1
- Views: 692
Re: High-backed seat in racing K1 what's the crack
Sprint, I believe. High backed seats prevent your arse moving back too far when you leg drive, providing you with a bit more leverage and reducing the 'give' between the paddle blade and the boat. I reckon. Some of my guys prefer them for marathon too though, paddling DW this last year with them. HT...
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:58 am
- Forum: Competition
- Topic: Sea Kayak Racing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
Re: Sea Kayak Racing
Hi Glyn (Glyn B?), Malcolm Acreman is the chap who masterminds the Poole Harbour Race each year, or at least he used to. You can almost certainly contact him through the PHCC website. He is a good man who has been involved in racing of many sorts over the years. If you can't find him, let me know, a...