I've just spent a great afternoon out paddling with James Best, another local Weymouth paddler and long-time friend now living in Bournemouth. We launched from Kimmeridge Bay, and headed east along the coast, past Chapman's Pool, and onto St Alban's Head.
Our main aim was to get out to the race at St Alban's Head and have a play session. Under the watchful eye of the Coastwatch station there, and having communicated our plans to Portland Coastguard, we enjoyed 30 minutes or so playing in the confused 4ft+ swells kicked up by the 4 knots of tide and westerly force 4-5 winds opposing it - a great time! Unfortunately, the forecast was for the wind strength to drop, and it did the exact opposite was the case. The 3 mile paddle back, into a fairly strong headwind, was no fun, but we made it back.
Both of us took turns paddling with a set of the Lendal Kinetik Sea Wing paddle that Lendal have lent me. Watch out in future issues of Ocean Paddler magazine for a review of these.
Bertie - thanks for recently visiting my blog (Feb 24/08)! Now that OP is up and running (and well, from what I hear!) how about some new postings here? Cheers!
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