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Latest Paddle - 29th Nov 09

Paddlers - Steve Price, Cooka, Disco, Steve Percival and John Hitchens

Cremorne to 7 Mile Beach - 25knt South Easterly - 1 1/2 m Southerly Swell

Great fun - paddled out from Cremorne with a pod of dolphins then turned and ran downwind to Seven Mile for 11km's. Top speed was 21km/h with and average of 14.5km/h. Check out the video

Latest Paddle - 7th March 09

Paddlers - Steve Price, Ian Cooksey

South Arm to Lauderdale - 28km - 20knt Westerly - Large SW swell.

This was a really fun paddle. We put in at the South Arm boat ramp and headed down the river to the Iron Pot. We decided to shoot the gap in the rocks closest to shore instead of going around the light house. The width of the gap was less than the length of the skis so there wasn't much room for error. We nearly came unstuck as just when we were heading through a set came in and I was forced to punch through the first one and just made it over the second whilst Cooka wasn't bothered by the first but had to punch through the second. This really got the adrenaline flowing. In all the excitement I was unaware that my juice bottle was syphoning into my footwell and out the venturies into the ocean - not a good start with a couple of hours paddling ahead! Once we left the South Arm headland behind the wind started to create some nice runs and our speed picked up to around 12km/h. We actually caught and passed a couple of yachties in Storm Bay, I think they were a bit shocked to see us out there and then have us go past, pretty funny really.

When we passed Betsy Island the large swell was more behind us and we started to work the runs, building the average speed. We managed to get some really nice waves but never really hit the speeds we were after, the waves just didn't open up enough to go really fast. Once we rounded Clifton and headed into Frederick Henry Bay that was it. We were sheltered from the swell and wind by the cliffs and faced a flat 10km home. The average was 11.4km/h so still a reasonable paddle and good fun.

Latest Paddle - 1st March 09

Paddlers - Steve Price, Ian Cooksey

Lauderdale to Seven Mile via Slopen Island - 32km - 25knt SSW

Ian and I paddled from Lauderdale around Slopen Island then across to Seven Mile Beach The wind really came in from the south when we were half way to the island and made the going quite tough.

Running back to Seven Mile was awesome, when we managed to link some wind waves on to some ocean swell the speed just climbed and climbed at one stage the Elite was actually humming. The top speed on the Garmin was 25.8km/h which is certainly the fastest I have managed to go so far.

Latest Paddle - 22nd December 08

Paddlers - Steve Price

Coles Bay - Schouten Is - 21km - 20knt Northerly

The mission was to take the ski down to Schouten Island for our annual camping trip over Christmas, stash it in the bush and get a lift back on a mates cray boat. I left around 6 so that I could meet up with the boat at 8 otherwise I would be left behind. The wind was well and truely up when I left and started providing nice runs straight away. By the time I reached Hazard Island I was having an absolute ball and was maintaining a really good speed with the GPS regularly hitting 20km/h. The wind was funneling through from Wine Glass Bay making the waves a little more on the rear quater but this didn't really slow me down much and I continued to pick up some solid runs all the way down to Weather Head.

From Weather Head on my progress slowed considerably as I was sheltered from the wind and I started to hit quite a bit of current that was rapidly flowing through Shouten Passage. There was a big swell coming through the passage as well, it would have been great to do a few runs through there as the favourable wind and swell coupled with the strong current would have made for some really good speed. Good paddle, would have been more fun paddling with someone else but the scenery was pretty awesome.

Latest Paddle - 10 May 08

Paddlers - Steve Price

Margate to Lauderdale via Betsy Island - 40km - 15knt SW

I'm not really sure why I did this paddle, I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time. The Margate to the Iron Pot leg was ok as it was relatively sheltered from the wind and chop. From there to Betsy though it was a nightmare. The unrelenting side chop constantly threatened to capsize me and made me a little unsure of my ability handle the conditiions. I decided to push on and have a short break on the sheltered side of the island, get some gels into me and hopefully summon enough energy to get to Lauderdale. The only problem was when I got there it wasn't sheltered at all. The wind had swung and was now more from the South leaving me know where to hide.

I managed to catch some of the larger swell rolling into Frederick Henry but I was pretty tired and lacked both the desire and the energy to have a real go. By the time I passed Cremorne I was over it and crept home, probably the hardest paddle I have done so far.