Featured blog of the week: Kayaking is not a crime

Many new things, new website, new vid, new petition: 
The nooshmooshiny website is at http://www.kayakingisnotacrime.org.uk/ 
Here’s a short nootoob clip of the new video:

Here’s a previous post about the T Shirts.
Most important news, as per Martin’s email, please sign the new WCA petition on land access reform. This is the second petition – its the next stage in the campaigning, so [...]

Tyne Tour and other upcoming events

Come on. Its the Tyne tour this weekend. Cmon. Other events are in the google calendar (links from sidebar), are summarized here. Hooray, the rain is here, feels like beginning of the paddling season.
Wed afternoon 31 Oct: Dee session: Lloyd
This weekend: 3 / 4 Nov: Tyne Tour
Weekend 10 / 11 Nov: BUSA WWR Washburn
Sat [...]

Choir of Angels

Singing seals, joining in with to the sound of lighthouse foghorns. Do they sound like a heavenly host of gilded angels?
 
No. Not much.
But they are very nice.
 
A lovely weekend in Wales. Dinny sea-kayaked round Bardsey island in the fog. Cath, Alison and Helen were “tumbled by friendly waves” at Hell’s mouth. Leo was 21 again (again).
  
On Sunday a trip [...]

Discostu Waterfalls Vid

Stu doing some waterfalls on Dee, Conway and some rivers beginning with ‘T’? Love the new line-choosing technique near the end (at 02:00 minutes). Nice mellow vid.

Other recent vids:
   Andy R’s 2006/2007 a year of lucc
  Aussie Dave’s Norway taster

Video LUCC 2006 2007

Perfection: Yep, checked Andy Rahooo’s vid and its officially perfect. The ratio of:
Right-way-up:Not-right-way-up=0.842
is correct to 3 dec pl when compared with empirical evidence measured over all LUCC trips. This video is spot-on and also has very cool tunes.

Nice one!

Manchester Talks were tops

Some of us from LUCC came over for the Manchester kayak talks last Thurs and enjoyed them v much, thanks Manchester! Eight short talks in two hours, very fast paced and fascinating. Definitely makes you realise that there is a lot of boating out there to be had, at all levels and budgets and loads of great destinations which are [...]

How to go on holiday without your kayak, by Rachel and Simon

Last week, Simon and I set off for our first non-paddling holiday together, to the lovely island of Tenerife. We arrived at our very touristy (but very lovely) hotel in 28c heat and took in the local sights. These consisted of a cool swimming pool, lots of cacti, English restaurants (!), rock pools in the [...]

Gnorway gnarlivision – DVD preview

DVD available soon, here’s a taster. Dave’s viddage of team troll styling those amazing waterfalls. Health warning: this video includes some damp, inverted moments which betrothed people may find disturbing. Nice touch with the screaming.

Report is here: Norway Was Tops.
Hooray for all the cool videos coming through!

Book review – English White Water

English White Water – Pesda Press, editor Franco Ferrero, BCU book.

Well, its quite comprehensive and you should probably get it for completeness of your library. You should definitely get it if you are planning on kayaking in the SW, or if want to know the paddling options near your home, and your home is not featured in its own [...]

Focus on safety: How to cross a river

Equipment you will need: Green tights. A friar. A song about maids and castles.
The question is: Do you recognise the merry man on the right bank?

Book review – Welsh Sea Kayaking – 50 Great Sea Kayak Voyages

Welsh Sea Kayaking – Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages – Jim Krawiecki & Andy Biggs
Pesda Press 

What is it? This is a sea kayak guide covering virtually the whole Welsh coast, divided into trip-size pieces. The chapters are very thorough, with overview and trip detail, diagrams, tide explanations, difficulty ratings and colour photos. Some of the photos are [...]

This term’s events on Google Calendar

LUCC events are all on the LUCC Google Calendar. You can bookmark it, add it among your own google calendars, or set it to radio your moon-pet in morse-bips on your space-phone. Google calendar rocks.

Rainbow T shirt

Gene17 have announced new T-shirts of UKRGB. Fits in with current retro trends. But luckily choosing two rather tasteful shades of ”not neon”.  

Currently miming: “Drinking Beer.”

Very convincing too

LUCC: 30 students dressed as mime artisits, classic! Pic from Flic.

Manchester Boater Talks – Thurs 18th Oct – 7.30pm

What: A packed set of mini-talks by whitewater  boaters, on the theme: “Have yourself an adventure.”
Topics: “First descents in Madagascar,” “Arizona, dry or WET,” “How to sort a trip to Nepal,” “Adventures in NY State.”
Speakers: Chris Smith, some variety of Fairweather + a bunch of other university-age-folk-who-have-been-to-very-cool-places. 
Where: The Firs Pavillion of the Armitage Centre (Manchester Uni Sports Area).
Directions by car: Buy a Tomtom. Type in [...]