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Update 19/12/2015: I’ve just sold Lolo and waved her goodbye!! Noooooo….. But it had to be done. All due to my replacement knee. I found that paddling the Nordkapp requires a more straight leg position. At first this was fine, but from the trips I did in August I started to realise that anything...
Having met my paddling buddy at 10:00 am, we consulted with the excellent Welsh Sea Kayaking guide book, checked the weather and the tides, and decided to paddle from Cemlyn Bay to Porth Eilian. This did mean we would be battling into the wind, but at least the tidal flow should help cancel the...
I had been thinking for a while I needed a nice graphic for the bow of my boat, but I couldn’t really decide exactly what I wanted. I thought about having something like the Turnbull coat of arms, but that idea didn’t quite sit right with me. Maybe it was the Viking genes in...
The day after the Oban Sea Kayak Race, I headed north to Arisaig. Rob and his family were off to Gigha for the week, but as I was short of time and the weather forecast for the next couple of days looked excellent, I decided to drive to Arisaig and paddle out to Eigg,...
With the weather forecast looking really good, Rob and I decided to head off to North Wales and more or less decided on route, to paddle the Ormes. We parked up on the front at Rhos on Sea and it wasn’t long before we were heading off with a little tidal assistance to Little...
The 2011 Wet West Paddle Fest (WWPF) was a bit of a turning point for me. Whilst I was happy paddling the Etive and other rivers in Scotland, the River Moriston had been playing on my mind for some time. This was due to all of the epic’s I had experienced on this river...
