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.
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Hi threre, Some of you might have heard on the grapevine that Pyranha has suffered a robbery. Over the weekend of the 4-5th Aug the yard at Rivington Road was broken into and a number of boats were stolen: Acro 270 Blue/White and Yellow/Jaffa Acro 275 Yellow/Jaffa Ina Zone 232 Blue/White G3 Blue /White Recoil S Rapid + Yellow/Jaffa Recoil M Rapid + Blue/White Recoil L Rapid + Blue/White, Yellow/Jaffa, Burn L Blue/White Red/Grey, Yellow/Jaffa Burn M Blue/Grey Jaffa/White Blue/White Ammo M Lime/Grey, Lime/White, Blue/White, Jaffa/Grey, Jaffa/White Ammo L Yellow/Grey, Red/Grey, Blue White, Yellow Jaffa lMaster TG Yellow/Jaffa As ever with any boat purchase please make sure there is a serial number on the boat (normally on the rear deck) virtually no kayaks are sold from any manufacture without a serial number being present. Some of the boats are also in new 2008 colours and so will stand out even more. If you are suspicious of any new Pyranha boat you have been offerd(especially those from the back of a van!) please note the registration No of the vehicle and get as much detail off the seller as possible and contact Pyranha with the information and/or serial No if possible and we will be able to verify that a boat is genuine or otherwise. Office: 01928 778 888 E mail: bobcampbell@pyranha.com There is a £1000 reward for anyone who passes on information that leads to a successful prosecution. Please keep your eye and ears open.Thanks for your assistance. Bob Campbell Marketing Director
I've been a bit quiet lately. One of the reasons for this has been the huge amount of pondering and then hard work in setting up Masik Publishing, which from the middle of July this year will launch a new sea kayaking magazine - "Ocean Paddler".
At last weekend's Scottish Sea Kayak Symposium we launched it on an unsuspecting public, and the response has been incredible. Lots of subscriptions were taken there and then, and more are coming through the website on a regular basis. A great amount of support from the industry players and top coaches, and a wealth of possible contributors and articles.
I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone I spoke to at the symposium about the magazine. It's been a huge undertaking, and as with any new business venture it's stressful and involves an element of risk, so it was finally good to be able to speak to a wide audience about it.
I won't give you the sales patter - that's on www.oceanpaddlermagazine.com, but I would like to say that I want the magazine to inspire paddlers to get out and try new things, paddle somewhere new, and get out more.
...seems to be writing a blog about how they're getting on writing a guidebook about going kayaking.
I guess Mark Rainsley was the first one that I came across doing this, and now it seems that Cailean Macleod is at it as well, with his blog about a book about kayaking in the Nortwest Highlands.
Is this the kayaking personalities version of a celebrity reality TV show?? Are Mark and Cailean soon to appear on Celebrity Big Brother - after all, these days it seems I hardly know anyone on any of these 'celebrity' shows, so it might as well be people I know!
I think Cailean has his work cut out though, as Mark has obviously set a standard for blogging and for building expectation of the forthcoming book.
Keep up the good work guys, the world awaits...
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I've just published new course dates for the rest of the year, if you're interested have a look here.
Mostly, these are sea kayaking courses throughout the summer, with some surf kayaking courses from the Autumn onwards. I've also included details of when I'll be at other events.
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