mucking about catching waves in 3 boats and 1 paddle
vid link below
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Friday, January 27, 2023
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
negative SAM
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SAM refers to the Southern Annular Mode.
It is the belt of westerly winds (Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties) between Australia And Antartica and can be a swell driver in the cooler months.
In a negative SAM the winds and low pressure systems are closer to Australia and so winter swell can be more consistent and/or larger.
Video shows surfing with a negative SAM, in smallish surf in a couple of plastic wavesports, and also home made jobs, but allergic to changing the paddle.
Hope you are getting some fun water time.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
close to water
just back from a camping trip
(seems a popular pastime these days)
found some fresh water interstate
and mixed it with salt water back home
hope you like a waveless vid
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Paddling Vanuatu
and also to the people of Vanuatu
(somehow the video (see link below) was posted on vimeo but this blog entry got lost in drafts for a couple of years)
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
finless fun
this goes back to to 2017 (vid link at bottom)
when i was starting to get the feel of my wavesport Z in surf
the waves aren't that steep or powerful but more 'rampy'
good to play on the face with wide arc turns but easy to overpower
heaps of spray being kicked up (part of the slower boat speed and/or less boat skimming)
so my eyes are getting redder and redder with the spray of the salt water as the video goes on
- it was all a natural high
lots of folk seem to be kayaking now in all of its many variations
but I still like a whitewater kayak with a greenland paddle in small-medium surf
..... with not too many people to share it with!
(I am very slowly and incompetently building a composite kayak, with my own mods, but more on that in another post)
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