Boat Forum / Paddle Boats / October 2005

HeadLine    Inside Lines
Publication Independent on Sunday   Date  23/10/2005
Byline      by Alan Hubbard Sports Diarist of the Year
'Legalise drugs' row coach wins UK job

Does anyone have any experience with WRSI kayak helmets?
Comfortable?
Are they adjustable?
Are they suitable for a longish skull.  (I do not have a round head.)

I mean, even though it's broad f.cking daylight, if you paddle and you
get capsized by a powercraft, IT'S YOUR GODDAMNED FAULT -- right, speed
bumps?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_WATER_MISSING_BAOL-?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION
=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Just saw this video:
http://www.bondle.de/AKC_Herbsttreffen_2005.wmv
I've walked this section of the Oetz, and it really looks gnarly. I'd
certainly rate is as a grade 6 (and certainly not paddleable by me), but

thinking of getting the peak tour lite hooded cag but never used a cag
with hood dose the hood get annoying ?

Here's something to keep your imagination working during
the cold short days ahead, and/or to waste time at work:
 http://cacreeks.com/mfsalmon.htm
It's a writeup of the Middle Fork Salmon, with pictures.

Does anything ever happen in this group, or are you all down with Davy
Jones?
J

Grip <mbetts@suscom.net> wrote:

Yup, classic comment.  Personally I enjoy rocks -- they are

Here is the webpage that shows the 3 boats we have for sale.
http://homepage.mac.com/whitsel/Sale_Items/PhotoAlbum52.html
Sorry that I don't have more pictures of the Kodiak. Most of the time
my wife didn't have the digital camera!

Weekend before last, I was paddling on my favourite local river.  I was on
the home stretch and paddling pretty hard when a gaggle of scouts came up
the river.  You can tell they were scouts because they all had on yellow
pfds (the local rental places use blue and orange) and ...

Apparently 28 times world champion Birgit Fischer and French manufacturer
Nautiraid have developed a folding racing K1.
Has anybody paddled it in the UK and is it any good?
BTW Fischer as a former East German athlete must have had coaches in the

Made my first trip in the boat with some friends yesterday, all the details
are here:
http://highlandmist.blogspot.com/

Had a strange one last night. Went out about 16:30 and experienced a funny
feeling when paddling with the low sun behind me the sea was rolling gently
and looked like a mirror or a large body of moving mercury. I told SWMBO as
she did a lot of water-skiing a while back and she ...

I have an odd problem with my paddle and I was wondering if anyone had
any suggestions. I'm almost ready to pitch it in the garbage. A few
weeks ago, a friend of mine was using my paddle and said she didn't
like it - it irritated her hands. She said when she finally buys a

OUCH !
What can I do now?