Trip Reports
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Lumpy Sea Sessions 1- ending 11th February
The previous trip report describes an old fool falling on the foreshore and needing towed back home… so no more paddling for me for a bit. But in the meantime the Lumpy Sea Sessions had attracted a massive uptake. When you reach a certain level of ability and want to go out in more challenging…
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Lumpy Sea Sessions 1- ending 11th February
The previous trip report describes an old fool falling on the foreshore and needing towed back home… so no more paddling for a month or two. But in the meantime the Lumpy Sea Sessions had attracted a massive uptake. When you reach a certain level of ability and want to go out in more challenging…
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Pease Bay to Fast Castle 2nd december 2022
A surfeit of winter paddlers (12 in all) gathered at Pease Bay caravan site on a dreich Thursday morning. An optimistic forecast was lying (again) and we had a southerly F3-4 wind but barely a foot of surf. We set off along the coast passing the world famous Siccar point ( world famous geologically speaking)…
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Sound of Arisaig ( not Colonsay)
So having planned to paddle around Colonsay for the weekend we changed plans due to a windy forecast. The original 9 paddlers dwindled to 4 – David Simpson, Graeme Seggie, Catharine Francis & myself. We parked a car at Rumach near Arisaig & launched by Glenuig on friday to land at Peanmeanach on the Ardnish…
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Arisaig – 15-17 July 2022
A group of around 16 paddlers – mostly comprised of ‘Dave’s and ‘Catharine’s – went to Arisaig for the weekend of 15-17th July 2022. Our base was Tigh Na Mara Campsite at the Back of Keppoch – which had basic facilities (new facilities due to open any day now – hopefully with more than one…
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Coaching | Grade B | North Queensferry | 24/07/22
Coaching Moderate Water Skills for Sea Kayak Award Paddlers Coaches: Russell Henderson (Author), Roddy Mcdowell (Mentor) Paddlers: Shishir Nagaraja, Graeme Tough, Malky Kerr, Dave Crampton Forecast & Tide: SSW F4-6 | HW 12:30 | CE 42 | Range: 2.7m VHF Channels: We used CH 77 initially for our group, however it was…
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North Berwick Before Sunset, After Sunrise – 20220715 and 16
North Berwick harbour for an after eight arrangement and not the chocolate type. Tim had had the inspired idea of making the most of the Summer Solstice’s minimum time between sunset and sunrise to combine some dusk and dawn paddling with food and … sleep deprivation. Two prior dates had coincided with bad weather but…
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Barra-Mingulay 25th June-2nd July 2022
We are missing some of our regular team this year for health reasons, including at least one suffering a severe reaction to the weather forecast! So in the end it is David Grieve, Clare Eadie, Anne Rose, Tim Gibson and myself who decide to ignore the potential wash-out of a week and board…
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Blowy Bute 17th-20th June
This paddle was posted as an “easy four day camping trip” and was intended as a rerun of the trip Ruaridh, Phil and I had done the year before, but having researched the routes and the campsites we felt we could bring a few others along. However a shoulder injury ruled out Phil and Ruaridh…
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North Berwick 7th of July 2022
Last night four of us (myself, Neli, Shishir and Tim) set of from North Berwick harbour, westwards into the breeze and dazzling sunlight to Lamb then Fidra. A bit of a workout against the F4 winds forecast … them winds, them winds! Easier coming back though and sea state nice enough – refreshing splashes in…