UCD Canoe Club
Committee Announcements => Announcements => Topic started by: Ley-Ley on November 27, 2009, 09:38:45
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Ello, ello. I'm just posting up to make sure you all remember to bring lots of thermals and a wetsuit for tomorrow. If you don't have a wetsuit you can borrow one from the club but if you are thinking about sticking with kayaking you should buy your own.
Also bring warm clothes and food for after the river trip to make yourselves as comfortable as possible. Afterall, I'm only one person, you can't all cosy up to me! Bring a smile as well, that always warms me up!
I don't know about ye lot but I can't wait for this Christmas break! I need to rest or I'll fall apart at the seams, wahey!!
Rathdrum to the Meetings is the section we'll be doing
Lots of Love.
Leighton aka Ley-Ley aka Ley aka Ley-face aka Manatee aka Cabbage Junior.
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Afterall, I'm only one person, you can't all cosy up to me!
Awh...
Although a manatee could cosy up to all of us....
(http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/manatee.bmp)
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What time does the club think it will be there? If you can get yourselves there by eleven it would be great as that section has a long car drop.
Advice to freshers on termals, I think you all know by now that cotton sucks as a termal. Cotton comes from plants and plants don't get cold or at least don't complain about it.
Swimming hats, you may notice that some people use a neoprene skull cap under their helmet, you can use an old latex swiming cap and get similar termal properties. Most of your heat leaves through your head so wearing a swimming cap will help keep you warm. Diarmaid used to wear a pair of tights on his head, we think it was for this reason.
Termals, dunnes do termals for about €15 a piece they are black and called extreme? something you can find them in the mens underwear section.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Eat well before getting on the water as this is the fuel you will use for the day both for paddling and keeping yourself warm.
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If you can get yourselves there by eleven
Mckevit are you mad? We'll be leaving the boathouse at half 10, its about an hour - hour and a half drive, we'll be there at half 11, earliest
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Just a crazy idea, considering that it was on this stretch we had to walk off a number of years ago due to lack of daylight. If you leave early you give yourself a better margin of error at this time of year. Sunset is about four o clock tomorrow. So going on the last trip you guys arrived at around twelve and we were on the water by about one. We where off the water at around four and that stretch is shorter. Up to you because I will meet you there and will be early as is my nature.
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Yeah, for sure, we'll aim to get there as early as possible.
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so THATS what a manatee looks like!! WOWSERS!!! afro.gifhmmm whats this teletype business....
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Ah, it was you who didn't know what a manatee looked like!! I thought it was Carla, ha!!
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hes right really, and getting off in the dark sucks ass all it takes is a couple of swims or a missing paddle to really hold you back.
is there any way of speeding the process up in the mornings, you know, other than getting up early? wat do people think?
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i didnt know either... until that beautiful day last week when you enlightened me by sending me that picture
my life hasnt been the same since....
its my wallpaper now, i also have a poster of it on my wall that i look at every night as i fall asleep
such a beautiful looking creature ^-^
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hes right really, and getting off in the dark sucks ass all it takes is a couple of swims or a missing paddle to really hold you back.
is there any way of speeding the process up in the mornings, you know, other than getting up early? wat do people think?
To get 15 - 20 people loaded on to a bus, and their gear loaded on to a trailer that has to be tied always takes about at least 15 - 20 minutes(and thats with a lot of people helping out) , then there's the delay of people figuring out what boat they're gonna take and all that, the only way to leave earlier is to meet earlier, or to load the gear the day before.
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i didnt know either... until that beautiful day last week when you enlightened me by sending me that picture
my life hasnt been the same since....
its my wallpaper now, i also have a poster of it on my wall that i look at every night as i fall asleep
such a beautiful looking creature ^-^
Everytime you look at that poster you are looking at me!! :D
In regards to getting on the road sooner, if people didn't stand around looking it would get done sooner. Putting the boats on the trailer and tying them takes little time, its the choosing of the boats that's the problem!!
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i didnt know either... until that beautiful day last week when you enlightened me by sending me that picture
my life hasnt been the same since....
its my wallpaper now, i also have a poster of it on my wall that i look at every night as i fall asleep
such a beautiful looking creature ^-^
Everytime you look at that poster you are looking at me!!
OHHHHHH.... that explains why iv been having so many wet dreams this last week.....
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:DWow, that was an epic fail!! Bestiality is a crime Carla!!
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trees are living creatures too leighton.
and if i do remember correctly you were hugging one on our last river trip i wicklow...
welcome to the beastialty club
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If you want to leave earlier than half past ten:
1. Turn up before ten, whoever is equipment should be there from half nine anyway.
2. Get your boat and gear and put it on the trailer, no one else should be doing it for you.
3. When everyone who turned up on time has their gear on the bus, leave.
4. At the river, do the car drop first, if you have turned up early get changed and when the bus gets there do the car drop. While that is going on people should be getting changed and getting the boats off the trailer and down to the get in. By the time the bus has returned with the drivers you should be nearly ready to go. People split into groups and rescue assigned.
I know this will just be ignored but it works and is very effective at getting trips off on time.
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trees are living creatures too leighton.
and if i do remember correctly you were hugging one on our last river trip i wicklow...
welcome to the beastialty club
Hugging is ok, I didn't molest the tree in any way!! Anyways, you have no say about trees Carla. What did you say they turn into? Hoomoose? :D
Kmck - that would be great in a perfect world but you know yourself, people are either not on time or slow.
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whoever is equipment should be there from half nine anyway.
i agree ;D
but ye if everyone got there AT 10 and helped load the trailer we'd be gone in a flash!
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Hugging is ok, I didn't molest the tree in any way!! Anyways, you have no say about trees Carla. What did you say they turn into? Hoomoose? :D
leighton u have no say either! you know you have issues regarding trees when you yell at someone for incorrectly fashioning a spruce out of birthday cake crumbs :-P