UCD Canoe Club

General => Kayaking => Topic started by: Evan on October 24, 2008, 11:04:40

Title: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Evan on October 24, 2008, 11:04:40
Anybody else notice the massive spike in the flesk yesterday?(http://www.irishwhitewater.com/gauge/rivers/flesk/flesk.png)

Edit: I just noticed that the picture changes every time they update it on Irish Whitewater.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Diarmaid on October 24, 2008, 12:13:53
actually that looks like a nice drop in profile, if only someone hadn't hung those big red and green cables across the falls.


my manager isn't in today. I'm getting very little work done.  ;D
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Nuala on October 24, 2008, 12:27:25
Yeah, there was phenomenal rain in the southwest, loads of places are flooded.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Galwayhead on October 25, 2008, 11:30:52
It was mental - the amount of rain we had.
The river out my window rose by 2 - 3 feet over Wednesday night and dropped most of the way on Thursday evening. Could have been a lovely dangerous munchy scary washing machine esk day
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Jim on October 28, 2008, 10:02:30
I was on the Flesk at about 1 PM on Sunday - some days it pays not to get up too early.

Line 1: Myself, Tom Bannon, and Mick Moore put on for a pleasant run, in good spirits.
Line 2: Myself and Mick Moore thoroughly enjoyed our day and finished up with a little boat extraction scenario at Poll Ghorm.

For those of you new to the message board, sometimes you have to read between the lines...

Jim.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: kill on October 28, 2008, 12:00:50
Very nice.

I trust you had the necessary experience to make a quick clean job of the extraction Jim?
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Jim on October 28, 2008, 12:57:18
Quote from: kill on October 28, 2008, 12:00:50
quick
Not exactly...
Quote from: kill on October 28, 2008, 12:00:50
clean
One person was cleaner that he expected to be...

We have a post-incident debriefing video, which will be posted in due course...

Jim.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Sick Boy on October 29, 2008, 09:15:08
Quote from: Diarmaid on October 24, 2008, 12:13:53
cables across the falls.

better than the slalom gate which was hung across sluice two saturdays ago. it fell as fresher angus was comming through the sluice. he/his boat ended up getting caught in it.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Douchier on October 29, 2008, 12:15:50
Ha! I like the way the graph at the top keeps updating. Now that's big! if it keeps going, it'll look like the background is blue and there's no water..
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Mr C on October 29, 2008, 14:54:58
Quote from: Jim on October 28, 2008, 10:02:30
For those of you new to the message board, sometimes you have to read between the lines...

Just reading a little further between the lines reveals that Jim's pedagogical approach has been found lacking in recent years. An ICU Instructor course might help you along there Jim?
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Jim on October 29, 2008, 15:40:10
Quote from: Mr C on October 29, 2008, 14:54:58
An ICU Instructor course might help you along there Jim?

Tom has loads of ICU instructor courses - didn't do him much good...

Jim.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Simon R. on October 29, 2008, 17:32:28
ah jim, thats a little obvious isnt it....you were doing so well.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Ritchie on October 29, 2008, 21:53:22
Should this all not be under the topic "Swims", or you obviously though such posts feature one-to-many times under the same topic jim??
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Jim on October 30, 2008, 11:36:38
Ritchie, if you have half an hour for the topic, Tom will explain to you in great detail how it was not, not, not a swim. Hence I'm posting it here...

Jim.
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Amanda on October 30, 2008, 11:47:12
Jim, did you pop his deck and push him over?
Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: joxer on October 30, 2008, 11:49:26
From what I hear it was a swim.


Title: Re: Flesk Gauge
Post by: Evan on October 30, 2008, 13:04:40
What's going on with Irish Whitewater today? I keep getting an error message