Recent content by dutchlennart

Oh noooo a red canoe,.... You are doomed the green ones are the bestest. Or yellow or black or.... ;) There are not much reame boats over here Enjoy the paddling and hopefully we can see many pics of it and learn what you like and dislike.

Lovely way to polish ypur skills and have fiun

Welsch chap called carter.

Backyard today

The passive swimming is a good first step that is learned ages ago. The active part was when i did stuff o. The ww course to actively go to a swi.mer to help her or him. Or to quickly cross.the course or get to gear in recirculatie eddies. An agressiviteit and active way to swim through...

Swimming whitewater i learned properly only when there was a atrificial whitewatercourse where i was part of a bunch of voluntary safety and rescue people..bfore i paddled much whitewater kayak and rolled lots... Swimming on flatwater is usefull. still whitewater Swimming drains you...

Swimming whitewater is hard, and tiring for all paddlers.. no matter your age. Thanks for the reminder. I have not paddled much whitewater the last couple of years. I need work on my swimming before i get back into whitewater paddling.

I have friends or former paddling buddy's i refuse to go with them on the river, because their way thinking about safety is not like mine. I do not want to call their loved ones.. Probably a mix of luck and skill have kept my out of these situations. I have seen the pain it does when...

. As long as someone else has a phone on the trip, mine usually stays in the car. i rahter take my phone as well. If 'someone' is stuck under a rock i want to call before i start rescueing. and i rather have that everybody has thier phone with them so if needed i can reach their loved ones

To me it depends on where i am. My phone lives in my pfd in a waterproof pouch attched to the pfd. It can get out to take pics if the environment allows. I had a firm discussion once when i was on a guided outrigger crossing , where the guide took his phone out of his pouch to take...

Sitting a bit low. Due to the lack of solo seat in this great tandem. Short test drive at the open kano festival in Ossenzijl

Just came back from a canoe festival where i found this. No date found i guess 1960 isch

It could be , weight savings are looking after all things. From the bolds you use to put the seat in , the species of the wood , the cloth of teh glass or... in the end working on your body to keep strenght up and weight down. Is to me more important before i hit 70. Then get the...

Looking forward to the building progress and you paddling the endresult.

Ĺ Hopefully i can measure the speed from an ally 17 this weekend.