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The River Ribble empties into the Irish Sea on the coast of the north west of England. A tidal bore runs up much of the tidal section, downriver of the city of Preston. Here I paddle a run of the bore from Hutton Sands to Preston Docks. In the lower sections the wave is 2-3ft …
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Two lines of footprints in the sand, leading to the brink of something we’ve been planning for a long time.
Trepidation and excitement play tag at the waterline.
The sea looks bleak in the moonlight and it’s such a long way. I know the early
euphoria will mellow to dogged grind, and that will stale into slow motion pain.
I didn’t have to go into the ‘office’ this morning so I popped over to the ‘gym’ instead, for a session on ‘Climbs’. This is a regular part of training sessions here, it develops a combination of boat positioning, timing, precision and of course, consistency. Get it right and it’s rewarding, get it wrong and you need new knuckles.
A short clip of the Ribble Bore, running in 360. YouTube:
Watching the water run across the sandbanks and shallows in the final stages of the Ribble Bore. Paddling the Rockpool Taran 16. YouTube:
Watching the water run across the sandbanks and shallows in the final stages of the Ribble Bore. Paddling the Rockpool Taran 16. YouTube:
An easy training week coincided with spring tides and a little sunshine. A pleasant combination. This is the Swelly Rock wave in the Menai Straits, North Wales. Here the flood tide is squeezed through a narrow channel, increasing the flow speed. And as it runs over the top of the Swelly Rock a wave is …
by John Willacy This gives you an idea of one of my training sessions in the Swellies. Today it is a low-intensity session working the technical aspects of Taran boat handling on moving water – ferry glides, breakouts, crosses, climbs and surfing. The aim running throughout the session is accurate positioning on all of these …
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by Pascale Eichenmuller Fridel who? Why haven’t I heard of her, you may well ask? Well, Fridel Meyer was born 1908 in Kitzingen am Main in Bavaria, Southern Germany and was introduced to watersports by her grandfather, the lifeguard of the towns swimming baths. In 1932 Fridel arrived in London in style – by kayak. …
Continue reading “‘A Little German Girl’ — Fridel Meyer’s attempt to circumnavigate the UK”
Here we go for a paddle to Puffin Island, Anglesey to see the seals. They seem to take an interest in the Taran’s rudder. YouTube: Facebook: