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Oct 2013
6:26am, 27 Oct 2013
5,080 posts
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JJ Flash
Yes, my blades would cost about £350 to replace. They make 1980s blades feel like pieces of plank. Last coaching session of the season this afternoon, then I'll be leading two Halloween paddles, complete with ghost stories in the week. I'm rather looking forward to it all.
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Oct 2013
1:36pm, 27 Oct 2013
6,239 posts
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AngusClydesdale
Forgot to say, the best bit was finding out there's a local club, family friendly and with links to the local dinghy sailing club too. Pool sessions through the winter, river trips in the summer and marathon racing too. I might have another DW in me yet!!
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Oct 2013
4:45pm, 27 Oct 2013
614 posts
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Jubear
Pool sessions are so worth their weight. The warm friendly water adds at least another 30 seconds of breath-holding on the capsize or roll drills, and another 20 degrees of lean when you're finding out about braces 
DW would be cool... in many ways...
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Nov 2013
9:33am, 11 Nov 2013
5,093 posts
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JJ Flash
I had a rest day yesterday but couldn't stay in on such a lovely morning.
Seven kingfisher sightings and a pair of buzzards
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Nov 2013
4:32pm, 11 Nov 2013
6,356 posts
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AngusClydesdale
That's just gorgeous. Love kingfishers too - probably my favourite bird.
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Nov 2013
5:44pm, 11 Nov 2013
615 posts
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Jubear
Lovely looking river JJ, so non-threatening.
Meanwhile I succumbed to peer-pressure and did my first WW trip in the club's tandem WW boat (Topo Duo) with an experienced (but uncommunicative) coach as stern paddler. He did comment that the river was a little higher and faster than he'd normally like for a first timer with no idea. But we were okay, his bracing skills were awesome. My edging skills sucked, hence the former...
That business when you're breaking out and change to the opposite edge as you get into the eddy? Yeh, that
I did enjoy the wave train though
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Nov 2013
9:59am, 17 Nov 2013
616 posts
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Jubear
Been out on grade 2 in my own (touring) boat now. I need a neoprene deck. And a smaller backside so I can fit into a club WW boat
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Nov 2013
12:59pm, 18 Nov 2013
5,096 posts
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JJ Flash
Which river were you playing Jubear? It sounds as if you enjoyed it. There is something of a bug...
Just back from four days on Dartmoor - an invitation coached trip with a world class Wild Water paddler and two of the coaches that guided her. Dart was a bit low so we didn't do the Upper Dart but learnt a huge amount on the Loop, Lower and Teign.
On Friday I was drifting down between rapids and reflecting that there was nowhere in the world I wanted to be more
Then they put me in Wild Water racing boat for the first time ever and pointed me at a grade three rapid. There's nothing like a dose of adrenaline to finish your trip off.
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Nov 2013
5:46pm, 18 Nov 2013
617 posts
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Jubear
I had a feeling you'd said you were down my way JJF - we were across the Devon border on the Barle in Dulverton.
How do those wild water racers feel? Obviously they work, but I still think they're rather an odd shape!
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Nov 2013
11:58am, 19 Nov 2013
5,097 posts
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JJ Flash
The WWR felt very tippy until I got it going, then it was a rocket ship. Behind me I had my friend, the international racer, yelling "paddle, paddle, paddle!" I was down schoolhouse rapids in seconds. I'm too old to take it up seriously, though.
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