http://www.sgi.nu/diary/2005/05/19/kayak/ The musings of a research software engineer ... Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:18:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.sgi.nu/diary/2005/05/19/kayak/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Thoughtlets Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:11:47 +0000 http://www.sgi.nu/diary/?p=7#comment-10 [...] So Shell and I had our first paddle on the Hawkesbury River this morning. Got up reasonably early to join in a familiarization paddle organised by the Windsor Canoe club. They were a very friendly bunch of people, but it’s fair to say that we were amongst the most recreational of the kayakers there - there were a lot of very serious people with fancy, light-weight boats who seemed to think a 24km paddle was a nice warm-up before breakfast! Our Dagger Trinidad seemed rather wide and bulky compared to the racing lines of many other kayaks. [...] [...] So Shell and I had our first paddle on the Hawkesbury River this morning. Got up reasonably early to join in a familiarization paddle organised by the Windsor Canoe club. They were a very friendly bunch of people, but it’s fair to say that we were amongst the most recreational of the kayakers there – there were a lot of very serious people with fancy, light-weight boats who seemed to think a 24km paddle was a nice warm-up before breakfast! Our Dagger Trinidad seemed rather wide and bulky compared to the racing lines of many other kayaks. [...]

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