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HelenaC:
Try posting the q on a paddling page on fb and im sure someone will help you out if people arent sure here... :)

cool plan, have fun with that! :)

kmck:
I think a medium level but I've no idea what a medium level is on the gauges, it becomes surfable once the rock shelf river right is covered.

Garbhan:

--- Quote from: Peter O'Sullivan on October 09, 2013, 08:17:45 ---There is this gauge http://hydronet.epa.ie/stat_89691.htm?entryparakey=W and when I was there on Saturday the level was 0.701 or about 15.4m^3/s and that was too low for surfing Stackallen wave.

There is also this gauge at Slane Castle http://waterlevel.ie/0000007012/0001/week/ it was about 0.78 when we there and there was no stopper at Slane weir. So back to the original question.

What level do the different features work well at?

--- End quote ---

For Slane weir to work the Boyne needs to be tanking so your going to have to wait a while for full flood,
As for stack, it "works" for front surfs only at quite a low/medium level but no one has ever told me when it works for even a few spins.

Douchier:
It works for spins whenever it's surfable, you just have to be able to do them!
ie. because it's a flushy feature you have to do them quite correctly otherwise you'll flush, not like holes where you inevitably spin just by edging a bit.
To answer the question Peter put up at the start, it's never really retentive.


Stackallen is perfect for absolutely nailing Surf, spins etc. If you don't do something right it'll tell you, but probably won't punish you with a capsize.


If you want a level, look up when the first(I think) freestyle training day was last year and that was towards the higher end of the range. Probably easier to just ask someone like Ronnie.


Also, Sluice. I like Sluice, we should go there too...hopefully it'll start working soon.


(and none of your anti-sluice dogma Peter, you haven't surfed it at a decent level and your Weils non-sense isn't supported by statistics)




I like Stackallen, it's probably working at the moment, let's go there...Sunday?

Garbhan:
It was working 5 days ago but there hasn't been any rain since and from the river level gauge and the weather I doubt it will be working this Sunday. Also is there any chance I could join in on this since it will probably be a private trip and I won't be competing in freestyle in varsities? I really want to get my playboat out onto some moving water :)

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