It sort of looks like a satellite photo of a strange planet or a bit of avant garde art. What it is though is my first shot at fiberglass repair and it’s going better than I could have hoped. The first thing I did was to again scope out the areas I needed to patch. [...]
Thomas Boyd the Younger of PenKil was granted a charter by King Charles II to form the village of Girvan into the burgh of Baroney on May 6, 1668. Girvan is also where Rowland Woollven & Cath Tanner are hiding out at the moment. . . well, according to the map anyway! King Charles [...]
o fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
So fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it.
I have to admit it. I was terrorized at the thought of doing all the repairs on my Rockpool Alaw Bach. I had taken my first tentative steps into gelcoat repairs last year and had good success, [...]
It’s a weird sickly feeling in the pit of my stomach. That moment when my brain suddenly starts seeing something utterly nuts and scary as something real and possible. It’s that moment when you stand on the edge of a dark precipice and the little voice in your head says, “go ahead, step [...]
So if you like pyjamas and I like pyjahmas, I’ll wear pyjamas and give up pyajahmas
For we know we need each other so we,
Better call the whole off off
Let’s call the whole thing off.
As we slid back up upon the beach after sharing a rescues class we began talking about our individual methods and perspectives. [...]
I’ve posted a great big gallery of photos from the 2008 West Michigan Coastal Kayak Symposium Here. You can click on a thumbnail to see a larger image, or just click the first image then “next” underneath. If you don’t mind smaller images you can just click “view slide show” as well. Whatever floats your [...]
Shawna Franklin
A symposium is of course a torrential rain of experiences compressed into a bottle of a couple of days. When you arrive back at your home base and the gear is out drying in the sun, when you finally start to decompress, it can be hard to figure out how to begin without [...]
