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Easy Downwind Video. The Menai Strait is a natural tidal channel that separates the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland of North Wales. The tide runs through the channel at reasonable pace for a good few miles, and is quite fast in places. All of which gives a variety of options for moving water fun. …
Time for yet another run on the Dee Bore, this time low river levels made the ride a little trickier than usual. This is the stern-cam view, so though you don’t see much of the wave you do get a bit more of a feel for how it is in the boat. Come for a …
Time for another run of the Dee Bore, this time taking the Rockpool Taran 16 for a spin. My first time on the Dee in the T16. While I’ve had my bum in the T18 for a few thousand hours now, my T16 experience is measured more in the hundreds. So it was time to …
I paddle around islands, I like the challenge of researching and planning the tides, in order to get around as quickly as I can. It’s what I do. The Plan Part of the 2021 plan was for a team attempt on the Isle of Bute record, my partner (The Boss) and myself paddling together. A …
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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: