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Thursday May 21, 2009 #
Flat Paddle 59:00 [3] 5.7 km (10:21 / km)
shoes: Endorfinn
Windy windy windy.
Quite sensibly decided to take the endorfinn out on the inlet today, the back beach was possibly the biggest I had ever seen and even the surfers were avoiding it.
The wind was blowing straight down the inlet so of course I launched from the upwind end, just from curiosity I stopped paddling, 6-6.5km/hr just getting blown along. cruised down, slogged back, cruised down, slogged back. stability was good, I probably would have been fine in the epic I just doubt I could have carried it to the water on my own. stopped paddling on the last leg up, was being pushed backwards at 5km/hr. fun stuff.
Didn't actually work too hard overall as I was saving something for the gusts just to keep moving forward in them. Probably should have worked harder.
bloody hard carrying the boat back to the car, then the beeper didnt' work so in my wisdom I left the boat sitting on the roof and ran round to the other side to unlock with the key. Before I got back the boat had been blown off. Don't think it hurt the boat but it took out the bloody wing mirror on the way down. looks like we aren't bringing the Forester up this weekend. when I did get the boat back on the roof and opened the door to get teh straps out the wind sucked the red flag off the car seat and off down the inlet, boat still not tied on, no way am I falling for that trick again so bye bye flag.
expensive paddle.
Quite sensibly decided to take the endorfinn out on the inlet today, the back beach was possibly the biggest I had ever seen and even the surfers were avoiding it.
The wind was blowing straight down the inlet so of course I launched from the upwind end, just from curiosity I stopped paddling, 6-6.5km/hr just getting blown along. cruised down, slogged back, cruised down, slogged back. stability was good, I probably would have been fine in the epic I just doubt I could have carried it to the water on my own. stopped paddling on the last leg up, was being pushed backwards at 5km/hr. fun stuff.
Didn't actually work too hard overall as I was saving something for the gusts just to keep moving forward in them. Probably should have worked harder.
bloody hard carrying the boat back to the car, then the beeper didnt' work so in my wisdom I left the boat sitting on the roof and ran round to the other side to unlock with the key. Before I got back the boat had been blown off. Don't think it hurt the boat but it took out the bloody wing mirror on the way down. looks like we aren't bringing the Forester up this weekend. when I did get the boat back on the roof and opened the door to get teh straps out the wind sucked the red flag off the car seat and off down the inlet, boat still not tied on, no way am I falling for that trick again so bye bye flag.
expensive paddle.