tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9770941603819270262024-03-06T20:10:10.078+11:00EASTERN HORIZONWandering by kayakEastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-37533354535155987252015-09-10T07:18:00.000+10:002015-09-10T07:18:03.450+10:00R40 [ Carbon fibre + Kevlar ]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recently completed R40 swift expedition sea kayak. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The keel line and chines are lined with Kevlar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial;">[Photo by Lawrence Geoghegan]</span>Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-21405116416253548472015-08-23T17:18:00.001+10:002015-08-23T18:56:58.685+10:00R40 - Trialling<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The road to innovative design is long and winding.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So is the road to Lawrence's kayak laboratory on the far south coast of NSW ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... where the R40 is being carefully crafted by hand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hull and deck of the R40 shown above - with its white gel coat and a black seam - </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has been fabricated with carbon fibre for the main body and Kevlar</span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> strips along its chines</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and keel line. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kayak is correspondingly light-weight and super strong - ideal for long-distance</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">expeditions where landing on rocky shores and carrying the kayak above high-tide levels</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deck of the R40 is a well-considered piece of informed design and fabrication.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The deck is inclusive of:</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- integrated sail mounting platform</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed fixing points for sail stays, mainsheet and up-haul</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed compass well</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed fixings for the fore deck bag</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- fore deck day hatch</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- fore deck large oval hatch</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- fore deck pump outlet</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed skeg slider</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- rear deck mounted pump switch with protective cover</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- rear deck day hatch</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed fixings for the rear deck bag</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- rear deck large oval hatch</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed tie downs for spare paddle</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- integrated fore and rear carrying handles</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- recessed fully retractable deep bladed rudder</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">This is the first R40 looking rather gorgeous with its Wasabi-coloured gel coat while</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">afternoon, loaded and unloaded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Crikey! Incredibly low primary stability. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Will freak out inexperienced paddlers. </span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Feels like an untamed animal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- High secondary stability - thank heavens. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Engages beautifully for edging.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Swift downwind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Jumps on to wind waves and surges forward, linking up consecutive waves in long runs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Does not bury its bow or bounce. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- It carves forward like a killer whale. Leaves other kayaks in its wake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- Tracks beautifully straight and turns like a dream, when you intentionally drop an edge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- The R40 engages positively with the sea's surface generating deep primary stability. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- It travels beautifully upwind, maintaining a consistent bow profile as it slices through wind waves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">On this occasion the R40 was easily paddled through a series of rock gardens and over</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">surging rock platform waves. Great manoeuvrability in tight spaces, despite its long waterline.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The R40 rolls beautifully, unloaded and loaded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">I can't wait to paddle this kayak in large seas, high winds and with the integrated sail fully set.</span></div>
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Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-61696799562194057012015-07-31T15:58:00.003+10:002015-07-31T15:58:43.771+10:00R40 - Albino<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latest R40, fresh out of Lawrence's kayak oven ...</span><br />
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Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-39175377582020452322015-06-06T21:34:00.000+10:002015-06-06T21:38:21.853+10:00R40 - Kitted out<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The R40 is undergoing sea trials along the far south coast of NSW.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These photographs are from Lawrence Geoghegan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">See Lawrence's updates <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NadgeeKayaksAustralia?ref=stream" target="_blank"><span style="color: lime;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-22726343002287326322015-01-20T04:37:00.001+11:002015-01-20T05:30:27.533+11:00Update on swift expedition touring kayak production at Nadgee Kayaks<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://nadgeekayaks.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: lime;">NADGEE KAYAKS</span></a> has been operating to capacity during the last year while building its current line up of sea kayaks for clientelle who want to paddle locally made sea kayaks with exceptional expedition pedigree and build strength. Recent circumnavigations of Australia in Nadgee Kayaks are testiment to this proven character.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">And whenever time has permitted, Lawrence has also been hard at work refining the 1:1 scale "plug" for a new swift expedition touring kayak which will soon be under full production.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Over recent weeks the kayak "plug" has been undergoing detailed shaping and refinement.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mould production is commencing last week of Jan. Fully outfitted k</span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">ayaks in the water soon thereafter ...</span><br />
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<br />Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-81979168060034412142014-12-01T22:21:00.000+11:002014-12-02T22:33:41.084+11:00Hokkaido - A visit to the Master<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By fortunate circumstance I am in Hokkaido, Japan, designing with two architect friends a very special building and landscape for a truly spectacular mountain site. A site that has a panoramic view and at the focus of which is a snow-capped volcanic mountain of incredible physical and spiritual presence, looking for all the world like a Hokusai woodblock print. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Equally fortunate, a chance comment from a local Hokkaidonese paddler has the seemingly inevitable consequence of carrying me (and my two Australian colleagues and our Japanese housekeeper) like leaves on a river to the shore that is the self-built timber house and ski lodge of Akio Shinya-san - a Master mountaineer, rock climber, skier, adventure sea kayaker, and much revered local Hokkaido legend who, like Mount Yotei and Annapuri just outside, quietly and naturally receives the deep respect of all who have the good fortune to meet, listen to and talk with him.<br /><br />The "river" did not take us directly to his house which is not so easily found within its birch forest, amongst a scattering of other timber houses sitting on their stone bases. However the glimpse of an upturned sea kayak lying beside a wall - like a washed-up dolphin carcass on a remote beach - was an immediately recognisable signal that we were at least on the correct "shore". <br />
</span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Shinya-san's house, he tells me, was made by his own hands and first commenced 41 years ago when he was aged 26. I did the quick sum in my head and found it unfathomable that the muscular physique and healthy radiance of this man could be anywhere near to being aged 67 years. But that is what good genes and a subsequent life lived in daily physical engagement and harmony with the natural world does for one's physique and aura. <br /><br />Shinya-san's many personal achievements exploring enormous mountain ranges in the Himalayas to the deep powder-coated slopes of Hokkaido are counter-pointed by his self-less and focused application to generating daily avalanche risk analysis and guidance reports in the Niseko area. On his large wooden table was sitting an incongruous gold trophy - awarded to him just four days previously in Kitzbuhl, Austria - for his lifetime of service and dedication to research into avalanche safety. Everywhere else in the house is scattered the memorabilia of mountain climbing expeditions, adventures undertaken on snow skis, and expeditions by sea kayak. A traditional Aleut kayak paddle with its distinctive raised central axis ridge line is positioned high across one wall, below which is a marine chart of the Aleutian Islands - with a scale model of a Greenland kayak pinned to it and a larger scaled model of a Greenland paddle rakishly angled across the chart. <br />
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I have come to meet with Shinya-san to listen and begin to learn about the sea kayaking conditions and environments of Hokkaido and its associated islands. Shinya-san's list of completed adventures by sea kayak are truly legendary. Six trips through the Aleutians, twice around Cape Horn, and of relevance to my interest here, many adventures along the beautiful and remote wilderness coasts of Hokkaido where he leads groups of kayakers during the paddling season - March to October. <br /><br />With the wood stove radiating warmth throughout his house Shinya-san picks up my sketch book and draws into it the Hokkaido coastline with the simplicity and accuracy that perhaps only someone who knows its shape from deep coast-hugging paddling engagement can do so well from memory. He describes the large tidal currents that sweep through many of the sea fields surrounding Hokkaido and the beautiful forests that line the East Coast wilderness shores.
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Shinya-san then sucks his lips with the enthusiastic hunger of the sea hunter when he sees the tableau of images recording the sea life that my kayaking companions and I eat on our paddling adventures: black-lipped and green-lipped abalone, crayfish of multiple varieties, kingfish, families of oysters, mussels, sea urchin roe and much more that we catch with our hands from the south-east coastlines of mainland Australia and Tasmania. In return he shows me images on his blog of salmon caught while paddling in Canada. Like all Hokkaidonese he would have a good palette for traditional local food and I speculate that an expedition with him would be memorable for that reason alone. <br />
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<br />With night descending in a freezing frost on the birch forest that surrounds Shinya-san's house we slide off our house slippers and lace up our outdoor boots. To the resounding accompaniment of multiple "arigatou gozaimasu" we farewell one another like old friends. But Shinya-san has one more footnote to add to this short story. He takes us up a slope to an enormous shed into whose dark interior we follow. In the deep blue-black gloom of a Hokkaido winter night he proudly shows us (with the crystal-tinged illumination of an iPhone) his two loves - a massive snow vehicle as big as a combine harvester with which he grooms the ski slopes of Hokkaido in the winter months. And a road trailer with perhaps fifteen sea kayaks arranged on it with which he shares his love of the Hokkaido coast with others in the ice and snow-free paddling months. It is a well balanced personal equation and evidence of a life that is being well lived in close and contemporary engagement with the stunning natural environments of Hokkaido.<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few early photographs of Lawrence Geoghegan at <a href="http://nadgeekayaks.com.au/home.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: lime;">Nadgee Kayaks Australia</span></a> shaping the foam plug in advance of making the production moulds for an innovative and swift long distance expedition sea kayak.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Rather it is a sea kayak specifically designed to be capable of comfortably covering 50kms a day along the bouncy east coast of Australia - with or against the wind, in milky calm seas or in the vibrant back wash and clapotis that is so characteristic of our cliff-lined coast with its deep sea swells and wind generated surface chop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Its large oval hatches to the fore <u>and</u> aft compartments will swallow all the gear that an extended expedition should ever require.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">This kayak has an exceptional rudder system thoroughly tested on previous Nadgee Kayaks. When deployed the NKA rudder blade emerges from its slotted housing beneath the deck profile to engage deeply, rather than sit up on the deck and stab ineffectively at the sea's surface as so many deck-mounted rudders do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Further enquiries can be made directly to Lawrence Geoghegan at Nadgee Kayaks Australia: </em></span><a href="mailto:nadgeekayaks@gmail.com"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>nadgeekayaks@gmail.com</em></span></a> </div>
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<br />Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-85463123484390225152014-07-22T21:07:00.001+10:002014-07-22T21:22:05.453+10:00Farewell Dad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My father - Granger - passed away in his sleep today in Sydney, aged 84.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">He was born in Suva, on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji, in 1930.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Boats were companions throughout his life.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">His father ran a fleet of large and small trading vessels in Fiji for W.R.Carpenter that, as a young boy, Dad used to travel on through the many islands of Fiji.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">There were other large vessels that carried him and his younger brother, Miles, to and from their dreaded boarding school in New Zealand throughout their schooling life. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">As a young man he served in the Merchant Navy of Fiji.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Later there was the ship called "The Lakemba" that he serendipitously met my mum on while travelling from Suva to London. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">There were many yachts in his life too - including the yacht "Kanai" that he raced on Port Moresby Harbour for many years with his friends from the Royal Papua Yacht Club ,and in later years the yacht called "Narawi" that he raced with his friends on Sydney Harbour.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The photo above captures him at right with a paddle in his hands, sitting on the stern deck of a skin-on-frame kayak. I am guessing that this photo was taken on the Avon River in Christchurch, NZ, during one of his school boarding terms, and thousands of miles away from the warm waters of Suva that he would rather have been paddling over.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">In PNG we were fortunate to have friends in the spectacularly beautiful Trobriand Islands.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Dad and his friend Ret.Captain Don Wilson took us out in small motor boats to fish on the surrounding reefs at night, pulling up seemingly huge fish on baited lines.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">During the days I remember us studying the traditional large outrigger canoes that still lined the beaches in front of the villages.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">From PNG, Dad once took our young family for a holiday to Vanuatu where we paddled beautiful slender local outrigger canoes. That pleasant experience of one afternoon with him on a Vanuatuan lagoon has stayed with me ever since and it has undoubtedly shaped my fascination and enjoyment of paddling quietly around in a slender boat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Farewell, Dad.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Saturday 28th June 2014 Tony and I went for a paddle out the Heads to see if we could say "hello and well done" to Jason Beachcroft - a man who was expected to complete his beautiful personal journey from Rose Bay to Rose Bay, the very long way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">A helicopter was making a nuisance of itself, buzzing around the harbour in a desperate search for its news story and stalking anyone in a kayak who looked vaguely as though they had just paddled 17,500 kms.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- "Nope"</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">- "Who? I can't hear you ... that fucken helicopter is making too much noise"</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Helicopter pilot:</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Here we go! There's a greeny-blue canoe at 270. That must be the guy!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Camera operator: </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Ok ... keep her steady ... I've got a great composition forming up here"</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Fifteen minutes of aviation fuel later ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Camera operator: "Hang on! Even I know that's not a Nadgee! That's a bloody imported kayak!! We've been following the wrong bloody paddler all morning!!!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Helicopter Pilot: "Shit, eh? No fuel left, mate - we're outta here."</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quite appropriately, the elusive Mr Beachcroft quietly slips ashore to a round of polite applause from his family and friends, a few bemused onlookers and a small fluffy white dog waving its tail ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hats off to Jason Beachcroft. </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very humble and determined man who has just completed a very big personal journey.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-56964631903192831272014-03-09T18:56:00.001+11:002014-04-13T13:25:18.532+10:00It takes time ...<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have not yet found the time or space to draw the whole trip across the Strait together into a concise summary report. It needs a little time to sink in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many hundreds of photos to filter through ... many, many, many recollections and memories of this adventure amongst a beautifully unfolding sequence of seascapes and landscapes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cruising through the Furneaux Group. Ross and Peter having joined us at Killekrankie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercury sea with Mt Chappel on horizon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sea kayaker's entree ... about seven hundred dollars worth of green lipped abalone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tony with more abs above, and wondering where Bass Strait has gone below ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I intend to write a comprehensive summary one day ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Departure from Port Welshpool, Victoria, on 30th Dec, 2013.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Arrival at Little Musselroe Bay, Tasmania, on 15th Jan, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full details of our crossing to follow soon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Initial expression of our sincere thanks to the following kind and generous people and places:</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Katie + Claudia + Vickie for enduring the whole thing at home with children</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Richard Barnes for incredible generosity and spirit</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Rob Mercer for skills instruction</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">John Duffy for advice on fresh water locations</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The Erith Mob for the 3 bottles of wine</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Rick and Meg Amor for their genuine concern over our life expectancy</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Kim and Spud for wonderfully kind hearted welcomingness and hot pumpkin soup</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Warren (Yachtie) for the well meaning donation of provisions</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The Great Bite Cafe, Killecrankie, for coffee and breakfast</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The Hut at Royden Island for its cosiness</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Tim and Wendy for their happiness</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Meredy and Warren for their interest</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Dee and Harry - so good to meet up with you on Tas!</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">The weather gods of Bass Strait ! ! ! </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">140 kms have been paddled in the last 6 days - that's with 30 kgs of bagged sand as load stashed into the fore compartment, cockpit and aft compartment..</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today Tony and I did a 70 km paddle from Sydney Harbour up to Broken Bay and back.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">We were fortunate to have favourable weather and sea conditions - although there was a solid swell running.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">We paddled the 70 kms in 9 hrs 27 mins. Average moving speed of 7.5kph. A good result with 30 kgs of sand on board.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the preceeding weeks, four trips of greater distance than 50km each have been paddled out of Sydney.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">And a total of 600kms has been paddled in the last few months. (Thanks to our wives for the multiple leave passes)</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">It's been satisfying to get these distances completed in varied sea and wind conditions. </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Sometimes in grinding headwinds with lots of cliff rebound. </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">And sometimes with downwind bliss at our backs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">We've hardly taken any photos during this year's paddling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luke sailing northwards at dawn in Julian's Impex Force 4. The V-sail is custom made of Mylar with a reefable top section and an increased throat at the sail foot to minimise stalling when burying the foredeck in steep wind waves.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">"Only 35 k's to go"</span>Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-71850687920546955612013-11-24T18:04:00.000+11:002013-11-27T18:05:15.188+11:00Practising rescues<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Derek and Ross at South Head</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">North Head.</span>Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-23048973555611961952013-11-02T20:28:00.000+11:002013-11-22T20:30:09.086+11:00Felix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Derek rolling 8kms east of Manly.</span>Eastern Horizonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026773605939342523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977094160381927026.post-26348338214542328142013-08-25T13:30:00.000+10:002013-08-27T13:36:53.938+10:00Stuff<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The image below summarises our last 3 months ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">Lots of paddling and a focus on improving our sea kayaking skills - rolling, surfing and other interesting stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">A recent trip for my work has taken me up to Kavieng, on the north-western tip of New Ireland, which lies off the north coast of the Papua New Guinea mainland.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">I got up before dawn, borrowed an outrigger canoe and its single-bladed paddle, and wandered over the short distance to Nusa Island.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">I think that this area of the world is pretty close to paddling heaven ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">These pavilions are at the </span><a href="http://www.nusaislandretreat.com.pg/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nusa Island Retreat</span></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial;">.</span><br />
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