Playak News Flash 2009-05-27

Playak News Flash - May 27, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Playak: Seals Pro Rand Skirt Seals Pro Rand skirts have two truly unique features I haven't seen in any other WW skirt. Their rubber rand provides a perfect cockpit seal.

Playak: Interview: Tyler Bradt In essence I spent my entire life training for Palouse. I started kayaking at age six and it certainly took every bit of my ability and concentration to run Palouse successfully.

Palm Blogs: Sports Person of the Year I was elected Aberystwyth University's Sports Person of the Year, a great honour which makes me extremely proud.

Nick Troutman: Barrel springs, CO Upper death is the steep rapid, though at those levels all the water got pushed up onto the rocks on the bottom right.

Werner: Solo kayaking expedition for the Wildland Firefighter Foundation In October 2009 Massachusetts based sea kayaker Justin Deforest will attempt to kayak down the east coast of the United States to raise money for the Wildland Firefighter Foundation.

Team Pyranha: Finally back into the real world After a year full of books, writing, working and finally finishing my diploma in psychology, I jumped back into the real kayaking world.

Desperate Measures: Rockpool Test Centre The ALAW emerged from the Rockpool factory as the first of a new generation of high performance, fast and comfortable sea kayaks.

Roaring Fork Kayakers: South Branch of the Feather We had a crew of 10 people, so we moved pretty slow which gave us plenty of time to take in the beauty of the run. Then the waterfalls start, perfect 20 footer, another perfect 20 footer and so on.

Team Pyranha: Colorado roadtrip The difference in the character of the run at the two levels is night and day. On our first run, we had a pretty scrapey level with little push in and between most rapids.

Team Pyranha: A weekend in Telemark Telemark is an area of Norway famous for its waterfalls and slides, and this weekend the sun is shining as well.

UK Freestyle: Judges Seminar Congratulations to our very own 'Sneaky' Pete Harmer for attending the recent Judges Seminar in Lyon and passing with a Grade 'A'.

sea kayaking dot net: Repairing a damaged Hull: Part 6 Gelcoat is pretty rugged stuff. More subtle yet equally important, gelcoat protects your hull's epoxy and resin against the degrading effects of sunlight which will yellow epoxy, then make it flake and chip.

Am. Whitewater: Yuba and canyon creek flow study: Updates American Whitewater is partnering with Nevada Irrigation District (NID) and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to identify a preferred range of whitewater boating flows on numerous reaches in the Yuba and Bear watersheds.

Team Pyranha: Demshitz Kill it Tour 09 So we partied hard then drove hard all the way across the USA arriving in Reno Nevada with two more of Demshitz in the van topping out at 5.

Inflatable Kayak Blog: National Fitness Month – May 2009 May is National Fitness Month. So I encourage all you paddlers to get out and enjoy the fresh air and get some exercise. Of course, dipping the kayak paddle into the water isn't the only fun fitness activity.

surfski.info: Surfski.info Review: Think Uno These "soft chines" start at about the paddler's knee and continue to just in front of the rudder. The hull shape between the chines is a very shallow arch.

Isle of Man Kayak: Isle of Man Kayaking - Mass Paddle. Steve Watt of Manx Paddle Sports organized a "mass" paddle from Port Soderick to Gansey Beach, with 17 kayakers. It was great to see so many people and so many different kayaks on display.

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