Sunday 7 September 2014 Chichester Canal
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| Fiona in her Sea Flea today |
My daughter is almost 8 and even though she is tall for her age, there are very few kayaks suitable for her. Tom Yost has published free plans and a building manual for skin on frame kayaks at his excellent website
Yostwerks. The Sea Flea is perfect for her, its a great blend of stability, tracking and speed to allow her to get from A to B playing and learning along the way. I used reinforced PVC fabric for the skin and while there have been no problems with the skin I'd be much happier with something sturdier like nylon fabric sealed with a polyurethane coating.
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| The narrow boat tour |
Today saw a family outing to
Chichester Canal, where Fiona and I paddled our kayaks while my wife and youngest daughter took a narrow boat tour. The canal trust is run by volunteers and intend to refurbish the canal and build a new lifting bridge that will allow access by boat from Chichester City to Chichester harbor four miles away.
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| Keeping out of the way of the narrow boat |
We paddled about a mile and a half out. Fiona was bouncing all over the canal and must have covered in excess of two miles before asking for a tow. This was the first time I had towed her, so we started slowly and soon she was asking for me to go faster and faster. I looked back to see Fiona instinctively doing low brace turns, zig zagging from side to side on the tow line grinning from ear to ear. We had no difficulty keeping up with the narrow boat and I'll happily plan longer still water trips with Fiona that include a lunch stop and leg stretch.
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| Who moved than bank closer? |
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