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Saturday, 4 July 2015

Paddle 28 Prinsted

Two paddles in one day!  I took my daughters to Prinsted to kayak.  They were more interested in swimming with Grandad, partly because they hadn't seen him for a while and partly because the water was very warm and inviting.  So I left them playing on the beach and went for a blast round the harbour.

I noticed someone trying to paddle an 18 foot catamaran into a marina.  They had no sails on board and just one  single bladed paddle.  The marina was dead upwind and they were losing ground against the F5.  I offered to try and tow them in but said I wasn't sure how much help it would be.  It turned out that I was able to tow the boat easily against the wind using my normal Greenland Paddle.

Paddle 27 Eastney

No pictures from this morning.  The tide was flowing fast and the Westerly was about F4.  My brother managed his first roll at the end of the session.