Paddling Vanuatu

thanks to my fellow paddlers
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)

vincent

https://vimeo.com/356386107

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)

https://vimeo.com/659504125

kayak froth

vid link below - 

my old gopro 4 died 

replaced it with a gopro 7 

but had heaps of trouble using it until finally reinstalled the software and now seems to work OK 

(voice commands are still more miss than hit) 

 not sure about video stabilisation but bouncing froth looks like newtonian fluid

Link to vid -  

                                                                        https://vimeo.com/615956397

Backlit lefts and rights

 kayaking surfing in 2017

with the Gearlab Aukaneck paddle

(not sure if this paddle is still available)

at my local beach break on a glassy day

link to video is below

            

https://vimeo.com/547926886

Winter 2020

 Winter 2020

Surf kayaking on my home turf

during the cooler months.

Vid link below

Happy 2021.

https://vimeo.com/490025546

summer surf kayaking

 this video is from the summer of 2018/2019

switching between the wavesport Z and my surf kayak

paddling with the gearlab aukaneck paddle

https://vimeo.com/472141230

mon arvo surf with delphin kayak and novorca paddle -2015

vid link is below photos -

video is back from 2015 when i was still happily getting wet drubbings

i don't have any bit of kit from that time
(which is strangely reassuring)
sold my yellow delphin 150 to a friend - great boat 
broke my novorca paddle in the surf in a later session

if you had a video of yourself kayaking five years ago, how would it look?

https://vimeo.com/463257703