UCD Canoe Club
General => Kayaking => Topic started by: Sean Mc on January 28, 2009, 10:46:17
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I- Canoe Sluice Downriver sprint Sunday 8th Feb.
Entries close at 12:30, race at 1pm.
Last chance to get practice and some real competition in advance of this year's Intervarsities.
All welcome!
See http://www.canoe.ie/Home/EventsNews/tabid/1354/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/22/The-Sluice-Wild-Water-Sprint-Race.aspx for info.
There will be some wavehoppers available to share at the race, just for an idea of numbers could people contact Martin McCarthy on 085-1742261 or mmccarthy@eircom.ie if they will be needing to borrow a boat.
I'd recommend that anyone who's paddling this event at the varsities should get along to the sluice on 7th Feb for some race practice.
c ya there,
Sean Mc
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Sunday is the 8th, not the 7th
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They are training on the seventh, really good lads well worth a trip to have a go even if you end up swiming ::)
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From what I hear its really difficult to end up swimming if you're paddling a wavehopper. Kieran...
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You should paddle a wavehopper before making statements like that evan.
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It sounds cool. I'll be happy to give it a go.
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I'm not saying that I wouldn't swim. I'd probably go over as soon as I got in the thing. I'm just saying that I've been told by people who have paddled them that they are fantastically difficult to capsize on account of the little wing things on the sides and equally difficult to roll back up for the exact same reason.
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They call them wibbly wobbly's for a reason!
Sara
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They call them wibbly wobbly's for a reason!
Sara
But not wibbly wobbly topplys
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Any of us who tried them out will tell you they are not easy to paddle at first. I swam on flat water for the first time ever in one. I didn't even mange that when I started learning to paddle.