Just a quick update … the event is certainly going ahead and I have now heard from a very healthy number of paddlers who will be joining us for the weekend. There is still space for more, please let me know by email if you are joining us, as outlined here. I’ll be replying in person to all who have already contacted me.
For reasons far too boring to explain*, I’ve just survived a stint at work which involved 18 hour days and minimal sleep for six successive nights, plus I’m very shortly going to depart for a week of paddling in the fabulous Isles of Scilly. If you don’t mind, I’ll post up a much clearer outline of the plans for the weekend once I return.
However, a bit of name-dropping first … I mean that in a very tongue in cheek sense! The folk who are kindly helping out on the water and in the evening talks have been invited simply because they are entertaining and friendly folk, not because they have famously paddled around Antarctica non-stop whilst living on seaweed porridge (or whatever). Hopefully there won’t be a beard in sight …
Jim Krawiecki has graciously agreed to give us a talk on Saturday night. Jim is well known as an all-round nice guy and is the author of Welsh Sea Kayaking. He is currently working on a guidebook to sea kayaking in the north of England. What will he talk about? Presumably something grim and northern…?
My good friend Chris ‘Knees’ Wheeler is a well known expedition white water kayaker who has paddled pretty much everywhere. He also dabbles in the sea, along with his partner Julia and they will be telling us a little about their sea paddling trips to exotic places like Vietnam, Oman, Dalmatia …
More speakers and coaches to be announced when I have more time, but that’s a taster to be going with.
Best wishes,
Mark Rainsley
*Back-to-back Overseas trip and then Ofsted, teachers will understand.
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