Good luck Oliver Hicks
Published January 11, 2009 | 
You wanna be the one in control
You wanna be the one who’s alive
You wanna be the one who gets old
It’s not a matter of luck, it’s just a matter of time
- 30 seconds to mars
I must be going blind. I spent quite a bit of time over at Oliver Hicks’ Virgin Global Row website and I couldn’t figure out exactly what he was planning to do. I’d read that he’d been stopped in New Zealand from doing it and now he was going to try to do it from Tasmania. It was starting to sound like something not only dangerous but maybe seditious as well!
Freya Heads To Australia
Published January 9, 2009 | 
I talked to Freya Hoffmeister last evening and it sounds like she’s good to go. Tomarrow she will be flying out for Australia to begin a year long journey around the land down under. Good luck, stay well, mind the crocks!
Shear Force
Published January 9, 2009 | 
Today was the day I think I finally repaired my cockpit combing. Up until this point none of the old ways would work. It was simply an issue of force. The problem was finding an adhesive that worked. While epoxies may solve some problems this was not one of them. What did work in the end was a product called Plexus MA 310.
Night Terrors
Published January 9, 2009 | 
So the thing that was perplexing me was simply this; You see, I was watching my dog dreaming. Lying there, eyes closed, legs running in place, jowls puffing away, with the occasional muffled bark. I wondered as you often do, what the hell is she dreaming about?? Then it hit me. . , What if dogs are psychic?
All go together when we go
Published January 6, 2009 | 
You know how it goes. There are just some places on earth where everyone wants to be. You know the ones. They’re the places that are talked about at dinner parties over glasses of white wine, where stories of sand and sun are ended with, “What? Have you never BEEN?” You know, places like the Falkland Islands!
You move or you get eaten
Published January 6, 2009 | 
sometimes you’re the windshield
sometimes you’re the bug
– dire straits
It seems hardly worth mentioning really. Still every year new paddlers slip out into the water with no clue how to act or react to the other vessels out there. Yes of course there are “rules”, but if there was one thing a kayaker should remember more than anything else it’s probably just to “Get the hell out the way!”
a case for either
Published January 5, 2009 | 
I just thought I’d share with you a picture of some of the camera cases I have compared to the little waterproof cameras. You can quickly see why we want a small waterproof camera. These cases are a real pain in the butt to use. The problem for kayakers is not that we want to take pictures under water. No, that would be easy. The problem is that we exist in both realms. That of air and water. We are not so much choosing gear that is best designed for our sport as we are choosing with which gear we can simply make do.
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