Playak News Flash 2008-12-15

Playak News Flash - December 15, 2008

News Watch Headlines

Playak: Who Uses What: Patrick Camblin This is part 2 in a series of articles on Playak in which we will present some of the world's top paddlers and the gear they use. In this second article we present Patrick Camblin's gear.

Mike Dawson: Epic Day 3. Upper Hokitiki The Hokitika is one of the epic trips on the coast, that I have been wanting to get on since I was a little tacker paddling a FJ2 around the top wave at the wairoa. Today we hit it up. Dando flew us (Jordan, Brad, Dyl, Sam, Kev, Kieth, and me) up into the classic section which had super amazing gorges and some chunky rapids. We charged hard and made it into hoki in time for fish and chips on the beach!

Rapid Magazine: Whitewater Village: Whitewater Village is Eastern Ontario's first resort cottage community designed and built using a fully sustainable development model. The A Channel is Ottawa's most popular morning show and Whitewater Village are delighted that they have chosen to showcase our development. There will be 4 segments describing different aspects of the project and each will run separately between 7-9am for a special episode about local tourism. Don't miss it!

UK Freestyle: Gb Team Selection Event 2009 The event to select the GB team for the 2009 World Championships (to be held in Thun Switzerland on the 31st August - 6th September 2009) will be held on the 14th/15th March at Hurley weir (wave-gate only to be used) - it is likely we will only need 1 day (the 14th) for the competition, but we will run to the 15th if necessary (it will depend on number of entrants).

OKS Keener: 2009 Program Announced We are pleased to announce our 2009 Keener Program. It will be an exciting year as many of our Keeners will be heading to Switzerland at the end of summer to compete in the World Freestyle Championships. US Team Trials won't take place until next May so we don't know who will represent the US. Canadian Trials were this past spring so our Canadian Team is packed with Keeners.

playak.net: Crossing The Indian Ocean I have been sailing virtually in The Vendee globe along with about 230,000 other sailors that don't have an Open 60. The race is going really good and I am a few days west of the Kerguelen Islands. These are about half way between Africa and Australia.

KayakQuixotica: Inside Your View One day I was out on the ocean, somewhat early in my paddling life. The waves were big, the sky dark and the water cold and black. It was a stormy, windy, rainy, day. Conditions were going down but not desperate by any means. Out of the blue I had a thought blast through my head like sudden explosion; I just couldn't "quit"!

SeaKayakPhoto.com: Paddling With Planets. We launched from the shingle beach at Dunure just as a pink glow appeared behind the cold snowy ridges of Arran. Although the sun had set 15 minutes before, the summit ridge of Goat fell was still catching rays from below the horizon.

Rapid Magazine: Yukon 1000 Race The Yukon River 1000 Canoe and Kayak Race is a new long endurance paddling event that is provisionally scheduled to be held starting July, 20 2009. This race will be the longest canoe and kayak race on the calendar, knocking other long races into a distant second place.

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