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Krazy Kayaks

The tale of 2 Krazy Kayakers embarking on a rather adventurous charity event! Kayaking from London to Sheffield in aid of the Premature baby Charity, Bliss
 

To Brum and Back.....

Sunday 24 February 2008



Hi All!

I saw this cartoon and it made me chuckle! I'm sure Dave will appreciate it too! As regular readers will know, Dave spends his Friday nights at a swimming pool where they hold kayak sessions, Dave's been going for some time and kept telling me I should go along. Well a few weeks ago I took him up on his offer, I've never seen so many kayaks in one place in my life, it was like a minature Spanish Armada! People in kayaks everywhere were capsizing, rolling and practicing new moves. It was a good opportunity for me to make sure I could get out of a boat safely should the need arise (I'm still with the theory that I'll be staying dry) and so with the help of the canoe club staff I did a bit of capsizing and got out fine. I couldn't grasp rolling back up again but am happy enough not to master that one, am not sure my nose could take any more chlorine! Dave and I managed to master a move where we helped each other to roll back up so that was good.
Today has been a good day, I dragged Katie along to the National Boat, Caravan & Outdoor show at the NEC in Birmingham. I had decided that the time had come to go out and buy the boat that would be taking me on this voyage. The kayak section was in the very last hall and so as I walked past all of the massive motor boats (some even had crew quarters!!) I couldn't help but think that Dave and I had chosen the wrong mode of transport! At last we came to the kayaks and the first person I came to was Matt from the Leam Boat Centre who I had met last year (see previous post) and it was nice to see a familiar face. Matt was, again, really helpful and took the time to take me through all the boats available and which would be best. Anyway after much deliberating and bartering between different stands I stumped up 400 of the Queens English pounds and took home the same Kayak that Dave has (except mines in blue). I'm well chuffed with it and am looking forward to taking it on it's maiden voyage this week. Once again huge thanks to Matt (www.leamboatcentre.com) and also to Dan from Desperate Measures (www.desperate-measures.co.uk) in Notts who put together a good deal for me. If I can drag Kate to the canal with me this week I'll post some shots of the new boat.
It was fantastic to see the sponsorship total smash through the £1000 mark earlier this month, a huge thanks to all who have donated so far, it's brilliant! There's still loads of time between now and when we set sail and so wouldn't it be great if we could get the total to two grand!! With a bit of luck, there should be some media coverage in the newspapers over the next couple of weeks which might generate further interest, thanks to Debbie Mather for sorting.
Think thats about all for now. Today marks the end of my seventh week of no smoking, it's going well!
Adam

Grim up North

Sunday 17 February 2008


Was a tad cold up here this Sunday!!!

Something for the weekend

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Very productive weekend when it comes to paddling
Baths on Friday,

Saturday went on the sea at Flamborough and did a little 10 mile paddle, hard work but a very nice day.

We decided to stop for lunch at Filey bay so we paddled for the sands, all the waves were ankle high to a grasshopper, then I paddle in and from nowhere this bigger wave decided to break right on top of me, lucky i adopted the correct approach leaning into the wave and got a fantastic ride to the beach. It was like old spice advert (ones with surfing in) crossed with a saga holiday promotion video to watch me go.
See picture of north landing, hardest bit was caring canoe back to the car park.


Sunday, went on the river don with the club but it had been that dry it was more like rock climbing as we banged along the river hitting rocks as we went.

Dave

Dave reveals his new plans to get Adam paddling faster!........

Sunday 10 February 2008

Wednesday 6 February 2008

Fantastic news!! We have now gone through the £1000 barrier in terms of contributions or pledges, just that small matter of doing the paddle now.

Thankyou to everyone!!

Up, down and up

Monday 4 February 2008

For the last million weeks i have been working on a sculling support stroke in the baths , which means the canoe is sort of on its long thin slide side and you are still in it whilst you are laid flat on the water bit like the letter L , you being the bottom foot of the L. This has been driving me mad. I can do it tipping to the right side, but on the left i am not so good. Anyway, after rolling over more times than the lottery roll over i managed to do it as the session at the baths came to a end, hope i can remember what i did next week.

Saturday, because of the poor weather, snow in north yorkshire, meant the trip to Flamborough was called off, then Saturday turns out weather wise to be the best day in several, how frustrating.

Sunday, the cold wind blows, and i get a chance to attempt my 3 star test, which means (amongst different skills/strokes paddling) the following skills have to be attempted - roll, Eskimo rescue - now thats a tough one, where do you find a eskimo in Sheffield? But basically you tip up side down and a canoe pulls up at the side of you, then you reach up from below the water, grab the boat and right yourself, thats followed by deep sea rescue (at least i am ready for rising sea levels), so if you get swamped when the sea rises 10 mile, i can help.
So that is it, i am now 3 star.
I did this all whilst suffering from a jippy tum.

Big thanks to all at the canoe club who have given me so much advice, without them i would still be sitting in the boat backwards and frequently upside down.

Dave
 
   





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