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Offline Peter O'Sullivan

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Clifden paddling
« on: June 19, 2013, 16:00:31 »
I will be in Clifden a few times over the summer. Anyone else thinking of going? Going to get back in training for freestyle. Will either camp or stay in the hostel depending on the tides and weather.

For those who haven't been. Clifden hole is excellent. Here is a description http://wiki.iww.ie/index.php/Clifden_Hole

Offline Eoghan

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2013, 12:42:27 »
I'd be up for a trip! I'll be gone for July but outside that I'd be up for it

Offline Diarmuid

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2013, 13:53:41 »
might be up for the trip if it's at a time that I have money to afford it :)

Offline Tiny Tim

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2013, 13:56:04 »
Id be up for this in August

Offline Peter O'Sullivan

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2013, 15:17:37 »
For tide heights I use either http://www.irishtimes.com/news/weather/tides or a program Wtides. http://www.wtides.com/

Clidfen will be working from this Friday for a week.

Offline Peter O'Sullivan

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2013, 17:52:53 »
Some future dates for paddling Clifden. Camping is down to 10euro per person, from 14, at the campsite. Bring insect repellent.

2013-07-06
05:01 IST 4.18m. High Tide
10:50 IST 1.35m. Low Tide
17:15 IST 4.47m. High Tide /// 3 cm below the 'cut off' but still worth paddling.
23:18 IST 1.13m. Low Tide

2013-07-07
05:41 IST 4.30m. High Tide
11:27 IST 1.24m. Low Tide
17:52 IST 4.59m. High Tide
23:53 IST 1.00m. Low Tide

2013-07-08
06:17 IST 4.40m. High Tide
12:03 IST 1.15m. Low Tide
18:27 IST 4.67m. High Tide


2013-07-20
03:31 IST 4.31m. High Tide
09:36 IST 1.23m. Low Tide
15:57 IST 4.61m. High Tide
22:10 IST 0.94m. Low Tide

2013-07-21
04:32 IST 4.59m. High Tide
10:30 IST 0.98m. Low Tide
16:53 IST 4.93m. High Tide

2013-07-26
08:33 IST 4.99m. High Tide
14:20 IST 0.79m. Low Tide
20:48 IST 5.11m. High Tide

2013-07-27
02:49 IST 0.64m. Low Tide
09:18 IST 4.77m. High Tide
15:06 IST 1.03m. Low Tide
21:34 IST 4.81m. High Tide

2013-07-28
03:35 IST 0.96m. Low Tide
10:05 IST 4.50m. High Tide
15:55 IST 1.32m. Low Tide
22:22 IST 4.46m. High Tide


Offline Peter O'Sullivan

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2013, 20:25:51 »
Anyone going to the Clifden comp this weekend?

Offline DervM

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2013, 00:27:26 »
I'd really love to, but already signed up to log hours with LKC on saturday, and my playboat is badly in need of a lot of outfitting that I have not done.

Offline Peter O'Sullivan

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2013, 11:30:22 »
I am in Galway all this week. I will probably paddle in Clifden again this weekend. Send me a text if you are going.

Offline Peter O'Sullivan

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2013, 10:17:12 »
Well seeing as no club member have any interest in Clifden I have to ask. How on earth do people expect to be competitive at varsities ( never mind win ) if they don't paddle! You can't learn freestyle paddling drifting down an icy Liffey in a creeker. Varsities 2014 - here comes another half assed performance.

Offline DervM

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2013, 16:40:18 »
Ah Peter, calm down  :). We'll be grand! Some of us are interested and there's some practice going on, I think.

Also happy birthday! Sorry I can't make the party  :-\.

Offline Maryanne

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2013, 02:55:50 »
Well seeing as no club member have any interest in Clifden I have to ask. How on earth do people expect to be competitive at varsities ( never mind win ) if they don't paddle! You can't learn freestyle paddling drifting down an icy Liffey in a creeker.

Apart from the original question asking if there was interest in general there is only one suggested trip to Clifden in this thread
Anyone going to the Clifden comp this weekend?
which was made two days before the event and only on the board.

I think it's more likely that it wasn't seen rather than that no one was interested since board viewing goes way down over the summer. Everyone gets a notification when something goes up on the facebook group, so it's handy to put a link to forum posts there to see that they aren't missed.

Even still, most people are away over the summer and it's difficult to get a group together for anything, let alone a trip to Galway. Don't take it personally or as a sign of disinterest in freestyle, it's just the way it is.


Varsities 2014 - here comes another half assed performance.

Belittling the club's performance at varsities like that comes across as very insulting, whether it was intended or not, in a thread that is otherwise quite positive.

Offline Aoife S

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2013, 14:09:06 »
Peter, just because people can't make it Galway doesn't mean they're not paddling, or interested! People have to work, many of them over the weekends so trips anywhere are pretty hard to even think about.  Even trying to get people for polo, which are actual competitions is a nightmare. 



Varsities 2014 - here comes another half assed performance.

Belittling the club's performance at varsities like that comes across as very insulting, whether it was intended or not, in a thread that is otherwise quite positive.

As Maryanne said it comes across as insulting considering the amount of work the committee are doing at the moment to make sure freestyle is promoted in September. 

It's the summer, people are away and working and just because we're not surfing in Clifden doesn't mean we're not out paddling

Offline DervM

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2013, 11:48:10 »
Aoife, Clifden had an actual competition last weekend. That's what Peter was originally talking about  :).

Offline Tiny Tim

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Re: Clifden paddling
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2013, 14:31:00 »
Well seeing as no club member have any interest in Clifden I have to ask. How on earth do people expect to be competitive at varsities ( never mind win ) if they don't paddle! You can't learn freestyle paddling drifting down an icy Liffey in a creeker. Varsities 2014 - here comes another half assed performance.

sound. really sound.