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Posted on 18/05/2022

Protected: Wales Circumnav – ‘Turning the Corner’

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Posted on 10/05/202210/05/2022

Anglesey Circumnav – May 2022

by Mike Conroy Background A couple of weeks earlier I had clocked up a 100km paddle on the Tamar Estuary, amounting to 13.5 hours in the saddle. Afterwards I was a bit achy but I felt that I could have done more. Later I messaged John Willacy and mentioned I was going to the Anglesey …

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Posted on 08/05/2022

Morecambe Bay Crossing – The AA Route Planner Race

The Bay Morecambe Bay is a large bay in the north-west of England, it separates the counties of Cumbria and Lancashire and drains a number of rivers. It dries extensively to form large expanses of sand and mud. These sandflats are notorious for soft mud and quicksand and in many places the incoming tides move …

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Posted on 27/04/202220/05/2022

The Rhoscolyn Beacon Session – Training as a group

The Beacon Sess. Last night we took the weekly group session out of the Menai Strait and headed for Rhoscolyn Beacon. The Beacon sessions are always a firm favourite: a change of scenery, different flow patterns and different courses of course. A change is as good as a rest as they say. Though I doubt …

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Posted on 23/04/202223/04/2022

Video – Penrhyn Mawr – Running Through

by John Willacy Penrhyn Mawr is a tide race on the W coast of the Isle of Anglesey*, UK. The flooding tide, a rocky headland and a number of shallow reefs work together to form the often impressive tide race. It is a popular moving-water paddling spot in the UK sea kayaking scene. Here I …

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Posted on 17/04/202220/05/2022

Paddle Park Mini – Rockpool Taran

If you like to keep your deck free of clutter, here’s a simple Taran tip for a lightweight paddle park to prevent wandering blades in those breezy admin moments. Wrap a few turns of insulation tape to a diameter ~14 mm. Then loop the elastic over your blade shaft and by stretching one side, slide …

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Posted on 17/04/202201/05/2022

Video – Cardinal 360

by John Willacy Relaxing on the Cardinal Wave, post-training with The Boss. After a sess around The Arches, on the Menai Suspension Bridge, we dropped down for a warm-down surf on The Cardinal. The Cardinal Post creates a strong v-wave on the ebb, with a second wave perpendicular to the flow sitting behind. The V-wave …

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Posted on 17/04/202220/04/2022

The Coastal Counties Challenge – Conwy – Day 2

Day 2 – Llandudno to Llanfairfechan – 17 km Today was to be a shorter day and so afforded us more of a luxury to look around. The aim was to arrive at the county boundary line at around high-water slack and then reverse direction to tootle back to the get out at Llanfairfechan. As …

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Posted on 17/04/202217/04/2022

The Coastal Counties Challenge – Conwy – Day 1

For the Easter weekend we returned out attention to the Coastal Counties Challenge. Part of the aim of the challenge is to stretch paddler’s outlook (including our own) to sections of coastline that don’t always get so much attention. And so it was with this trip – Rhyl to Llanfairfechan. At first look it seems …

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Posted on 15/04/202220/05/2022

The Coastal Counties Challenge – Gwynedd – Day 7

Day 7 – Morfa Dinlle – Llanfairfechan(ish) – 37 km We start our final day under a glorious sky, 0900 OTW and it’s a nice warm day – thin-cag time! There is a gentle, clean swell running in on the beach and we partake of a couple of easy runs up by South Sands, before …

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