Saturday, January 17, 2009

Jan 17th - Discovery - a wonderful winter paddle (#3)

Dan and I joined Michel, Yves, Dorothea, Patti and Nick (from Scotland) to paddle out around the islands. Dan and I set out a bit earlier and managed to catch some waves in Baynes. We had a deloightful paddle in wonderful conditions. We also got to play a bit in the “sluice” between Vantreight and east Chatham. The wind picked up a bit from the North on the way back as you can see our speed went down quite a bit


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Some photos from the day can be found at: http://picasaweb.google.ca/mhjackson123/20090117_discovery#


Some videos on youtube:


Nick and Yves in the sluice


Dan in Baynes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfxjqFmKgA


Yves’ eddy turn


Patti’s eddy turn


Nick’s eddy turn

17 km, 9 NM, YTD: 35 km

1 comment:

Paula Johanson said...

"The sluice" is an excellent name for that little passage between Vantreight and Chatham! The bend that goes between Vantreight and Strongtide is where a couple of our paddle group got not-vertical three years ago. We love going through there now at moderate current...