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Oct 2012
11:13pm, 5 Oct 2012
483 posts
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Jubear
Nellers, I certainly do admire anyone who can finish a DW - but then to go back when you know what you're in for? That's a special kind of mental 
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Oct 2012
11:14pm, 5 Oct 2012
1,785 posts
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Bru-Bru
3 DWs is, indeed, a proper achievement. Nellers is actually quite respectable, on the quiet.
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Oct 2012
11:15pm, 5 Oct 2012
22,570 posts
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Nellers
It really was. One of my fondest memories to this day is having my arse massaged on Putney Hard in the early hours of Easter Saturday morning. It's a tough event.
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Oct 2012
11:18pm, 5 Oct 2012
484 posts
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Jubear
That deserved to be totp...
I.gotta to go to bed now or I'll never be up in time for parkrun.
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Oct 2012
1:00am, 6 Oct 2012
11,232 posts
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Puffing Bertie
I go kayaking at least once a week, although the weather is getting a little cooler now for my liking. But my paddling is slow on lakes rather than rivers and I like the slow quiet backwaters of the lakes best as I get to see lots of wildlife.
However i can apreciate the DW and any race event as my son was on the junior GB start team about 10 years ago (omg im getting so old!)
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Oct 2012
11:18am, 6 Oct 2012
485 posts
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Jubear
Parkrun done, now off to the SW Canoe show, see if I can find some must have paddle-faster, exit-the-boat-more-cleanly kit!
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Oct 2012
11:51am, 6 Oct 2012
21,806 posts
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Velociraptor
A year without a capsize drill? Blimey, am impressed! I was made to do one within two hours of first getting in a kayak on Carsington Water. Just as well, because on my first foray into moving water I had to do it for real. I never found it all that scary, the actual being underwater bit was over almost before I knew it was happening.
Loved it, in a rubbish-at-it-but-don't care sort of way, but I wasn't really able to keep it up and haven't been in a plastic peapod for about seven years. The main deterrent to having another go is that the last thing we need at home is another sport with an expensive kit-list.
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Oct 2012
12:26pm, 6 Oct 2012
18,030 posts
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eL Bee!
Mmmmm - kayaking.......
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Oct 2012
1:04pm, 6 Oct 2012
21,808 posts
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Velociraptor
Down t'beck with an old plastic bucket and a bit of UPVC shiplap ...
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Oct 2012
3:32pm, 6 Oct 2012
486 posts
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Jubear
V'rap - capsize drill easily dodged if you just get your own boat & don't join a.club or see the need for BCU 1 star paperwork... Plus I'm a bit *simple* with regard to h&s, which helps
Anyway error of ways now seen (I.e. been worn down by knowledgeable friends' nagging) so its all in hand.
Plastic buckets at dawn then!
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