Filey Brigg at its Best

A few stolen hours, launching from Filey we headed towards Brigg End. A fairly good northerly was blowing so we waited for the last of the ebb before tentatively moving in.













A couple of pics from the GoPro







We then cut across the bay and spent an hour or so surfing the lovely clean waves that were building of the sands, a perfect winter Sunday.

3* Canoe Assessment

A cold weekend in early December saw me heading to LLangollen for a 3 star assessment.

We truly love open boating so it just seemed natural to progress my skills. Day 1 dawned and we launched onto the LLangolen Canal, an amazing place in its own right and somewhere I had wanted to paddle since I heard about the local viaduct. Quite an experience, especially for someone who really doesn't like heights.







The following day we headed to Bala Lake for further skills assessment.









A brilliant weekend which resulted in a pass, must go back and take the lad over that viaduct.

Essential Sea Kayak Symposium

A fabulous weekend is always going to be guaranteed.  Our choices for the weekend...

Menai Straits on the Saturday, an absolute blast for me as I got to play in the brand new Rockpool 16, a lovely quick and very responsive boat, what more can I say.

 





Sunday dawned a gorgeous day, a trip to the Penryn Mawr was on the cards.

 

Then the final day the gang got together and we had a chilled out trip around Trearddur Bay



A perfect weekend with good mates..

Autumn on the Humber

With light winds forecast and an ebbing tide both Fi and myself put in at the old light house at Paull and travelled down river to Hawkins Point.