Hello Wilky, Which part of Tassie are you in, on the Derwent, or the Tamar estuary? Those whirlpools sound like fun, in a way. I'm in Melbourne, and there's quite a few stitch and glue boats in the VSKC fleet now. You should come over and check them out. Last Sunday we had a Cape Charles, a Patuxent, a North Bay large or high volume, and two Seguins along on the regular monthly club dawdle paddle. They have collectively taken on the name of the "Kindling Club", as the club President once commented that he liked wooden boats along on trips, they kept the campfire going all night. Peter Treby *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Peter, et all. I am on the Tamar. In the north of the island Most of the people I paddle with have the Cape Charles (CLC) kayaks. A funny story, we were paddling in the south, the weather was quite rough and there was an 8-10ft swell. One of the guys in a Cape Charles came down the face of a roller and buried the nose of his kayak up to the coaming into the back of the wave in front. This stopped the kayak and then the following wave rolled over the top of the back of the kayak. He was totally submerged up to his waist. The look on his face was hilarious, then he popped back up to the surface like a cork. Was a good 4 day trip. Cheers Wilky From: "Peter Treby" <ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au> > Hello Wilky, > Which part of Tassie are you in, on the Derwent, or the Tamar estuary? Those > whirlpools sound like fun, in a way. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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