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| Jamie in the blue submarine. |
Jamie and I had our first paddle together in a year or so. We picked the newest, shiniest Condor available. Five metres of carbon and Kevlar lusciousness only to find after five minutes' paddling that it was rapidly turning into a submarine. Surely we're not kicking up that much splash? We turned the boat over and found a piece of duck tape on the bottom of the hull betraying where a hole was. We paddled back to the clubhouse and tried a second, slightly more scuffed boat to find that whoever paddled it last has extremely short legs with the front footplate needing moving. OK, starting to get cold and bored now, so let's try boat number three. This condor looked like it had seen better days but at least it floated and we could fit into it, so off we went again.
Eventually we had a paddle for just under an hour. We were both feeling it by the end as we came back against the flow from the Sunbury portage with a few more twitches as our core strength deserted us, but it was a really encouraging paddle with a couple of fast bits but in the main just trying to keep a smooth cadence We are going to aim to get out on Monday nights, most likely in K1 boats in an attempt at some consistency.
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