I managed to put a dent in my Wavesport Diesel by running it at speed into some swimming pool steps 😉

I've watched his videos before and he always puts a lot of effort in.

I think I’ll take my PLB rather than my drone. Especially as if my VHF is dangling from my drone it is going to be rather hard to use it ;)

Even a brief shot of the screen showing he was managing to operate the drone in GPS mode successfully.

I’ll admit I was imagining a radio taped to the top of my Mavic, rather than the radio suspended some distance away from the body ;)

I know it wasn’t a serious suggestion, but I suspect running 5 watt or greater transmitter on top of a drone isn’t going to do great things for the drones GPS receiver and compasses ;)

Plastic sea boats are definitely more rigid than they used to be. And there are plenty of plastic boats that have similar/same designs as composite boats. However, they do still feel very different to composite boats. If you jump out of a plastic one and into a composite one (even of exactly the sam...

I think you will lose heat faster on a cold and windy day than you ever will in the water. This is a dangerous myth, it isn't true. Because water conducts heat away _so_ much quicker than air you are always going to lose heat a lot faster in the water. This is why it is stressed in safety and rescu...

I'm really talking about when you end up in the water, trying to get back into your boat. Your fleece isn't going to wick or dry and is not going to keep you warm when you're in the water (which is when you really need the protection from loss of body heat).

A fleece top isn't very useful for keeping you warm when it is wet. Water in contact with your skin conducts heat away from you at something like 25 times faster than air in contact with your skin. Fleece is warm mainly because it traps lots of against your skin and also inside the fleece material i...

If you watch videos on using it you’ll see that deploying it is easier than those instructions make it look, the videos show that the antenna springs free once you pop the top off. Could actually potentially be easier than the rescueMe.

When you say unwound do you really mean unwound or just pulled out. The rescueMe PLB1 needs to have its antenna deploy, but you just pull on the end of it to unwind it.

I've seen people with them attached to their shoulder strap. I'm not convinced that I'd actually be able to extend the antenna and activate mine while it was attached to my shoulder strap. I'm fairly sure I'd struggle to visually see whether or not I'd activated it. So my plan is to keep it in a poc...

Nope. Just got mine, that I registered sometime in autumn last year.

I wasn't expecting any actual paperwork, so I was surprised when it turned up yesterday.

The answer from BC, I have to create a new account to sign up for the provider e-learning content. So I now have three different accounts for BC: - membership area - e-learning for coaching award - e-learning for the providers info I hope they have plans to streamline this, the last thing coaches ge...

So your login for the shop it different for the login to actually view the e-learning ?

I'm trying to work out how to buy the New Personal Performance Awards e-learning workshop. I already have the Coach Award e-learning available on my login at e-learning https://brcanoeawarding.mylearningapp.com When I go to https://brcanoeawarding.mylearningapp.com/shop/ to try and buy the New Perso...

On the same subject, does anyone have any recommendations for CNTP providers that they think are particularly good ?

I also get a bit of folding of the zip on my waist zip Typhoon. It isn’t uncomfortable though.

I’ve not had surgery, but I did have a shoulder injury, with just a bit of tear in something. It took me 8 months until I was really fit.

Thanks, I didn't know about the 3 blasts (always been taught 6 blasts).

Specifically the recognised distress signal is 6 blasts, repeated once a minute.

Though I doubt many members of the general population know that...

But as you noted, raising the antenna a few feet when talking to the coast guard may well make little difference. Say the radio is normally about 1 metre above sea level when you are in a kayak and the coast guard antenna is 50 metres ASL. The radio horizon for the combined setup is 33km. Even if yo...

The limiting factor is not the power of the transmitter. The limiting factors are line of sight and the antenna design.

With the right antenna and line of sight (i.e. both transmitter and receiver on top of big hill/mountain) a 5W handheld VHF radio can be heard 100 miles away or more.

Thanks. A complex repair like that is beyond me, I’ve done one single bit of glass work so far. And that was this week, patching damage under the front seat lip on my wife’s Romany.

I’ve got some damage to the very rear of my Tiderace Xplore, right at the stern, on one side right at the bottom edge of the hull. I had thought it was just some gel coat damage, but then I realised there was a small leak. When I investigated it further I found that the area around the gel coat defo...

Channels 75/76 (and quite a few others) didn't used to exist. The spacing between the marine channels was originally 50 kHz. When radios go better, it was decided that a 50 kHz gap between channels was more than was needed. So they cut the gap down to 25 kHz and added loads of new channels, includin...

I must have a look at that next time I bump into you Michal.

And before anyone else mentions it, there are other channels even closer to 16, that are also restricted to 1 watt.

75 and 76 are on 156.775/156.825.

I was certainly not told to use low power on channel 16 when I did my SRC last year. Maybe someone was getting mixed up with the guard channels each side of channel 16, where you are supposed to use max 1 watt to reduce the possibility of interfering with transmissions on the much more important cha...