Playak News Flash 2009-10-01

Playak News Flash - October 1, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Dagger Blogs: North Fork Feather Tobin Race Results It's exciting to see that people are fired up on downriver racing. There were over 300 people camped out on the river and the "long boats" are back in a major way. The Green boat and Dagger Nomad took the top spot in all 3 categories.

Werner: Tino Specht, speaking softly-yeilding a Werner stick. As an Athlete as a Teacher. Tino Specht, Werner Paddles and Dagger Kayaks athlete, is headed off to Chile to teach with the Keener's program in just a few weeks. Before he heads out he wanted to get us all sorted out with some sick video and photos from his summer of training and teaching with the kids on the Ottawa River in Canada.

Wavesport Blogs: An open letter to the paddling community - Fight climate change, go kayaking We are among the luckiest people in the world. We have the opportunity to easily experience some of the most beautiful, remote and pristine places there are, simply by floating through them. But, for one day this October we're asking the boating community to do something different

Potomac Paddlesports: Gauley Double Marathon I say the "whole river" with some reservations, because obviously the Gauley doesn't start at Summersville Dam. It starts many miles upstream on Gauley Mountain and picks up several tributaries that are interesting in their own right before reaching the dam.

KayakQuixotica: Concrete Moose Talk of double skegs and the sudden appearance of a concrete moose are certainly signs of the end times wherever you may live. Here in the great lakes region we are certainly racing down a steep path to the apocalypse.. Or maybe it's just the arrival of autumn. Winter after all, IS the apocalyp...

Wavesport Blogs: Rescue Insights Setting out on a section of river, all the fun points that we rack up by going off of boofs, shooting down slides, and generally whooping it up with our friends can only be redeemed by safely reaching take-out all together.

Simon Willis: Sea Kayak Venice - in The Guardian Congratulations to René Seindal for getting his Venice Kayak business into The Guardian newspaper.Here's a great article by Teresa Machan who clearly had a great time. I've always thought this would make a superb travel article so I'm please someone has written it.Teresa writes "Unlikely thou...

Adrian Tregoning: Betty's Bay – Hollow Perfection Feeling moderately nervous about this ultra hollow wave I headed out with some trepidation. Hollow waves don't need to be that big to issue some serious justice. It doesn't take much to be flattened onto the ocean bottom during a wipe out.

Palm Blogs: Etive River Race The low level allowed a pretty much carnage free event on the middle section and with little water to spare the level held consistent for a very fair event. Adding to this, the dry skies meant a happy day for spectators.

SUP Surf: Tropical Blends New Wood SUP Boards The 9′2″, according to Jim, is designed for a wide range of folks from smaller women to bigger guys who want to surf harder on a smaller board. It comes in 3 designs: 2 different color schemes with a PVC surface, and a really nice bamboo veneer surface with a shiny, polished finish.

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