Chris Walters wrote:
Wilko wrote:

I got rid of that Invader that I made you feel so uncomfortable in...
:-)


Gutted - not the purple one we donated?

blush :-)

Yep, that one: It's now being used (by the local student paddling club)
instead of gathering dust in my shack. I thought that would be a more
appropriate place for it (besides, after buying my latest kayak the
shack was so full my bicycle couldn't fit in there any more).

Belated happy new year to all RBPers past and present.

Ditto!

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Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.
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Wilko wrote:

Gutted - not the purple one we donated?

blush :-)

Yep, that one: It's now being used (by the local student paddling
club) instead of gathering dust in my shack. I thought that would be
a more appropriate place for it (besides, after buying my latest
kayak the shack was so full my bicycle couldn't fit in there any
more).


Pleased to see it's being used - that's one better than our kayaks at the
moment :-(

Cheers,
Chris


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Chris Walters
Hungerford, UK
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Chris Walters wrote:

Wilko wrote:

Yep, that one: It's now being used (by the local student paddling
club) instead of gathering dust in my shack. I thought that would be
a more appropriate place for it (besides, after buying my latest
kayak the shack was so full my bicycle couldn't fit in there any
more).

Pleased to see it's being used - that's one better than our kayaks at the
moment :-(

I thought it would be more in the spirit of the gift as well as the
spirit of kayaking to give a perfectly useful albeit dated design kayak
to someone who will use it than to have it among the herd of kayaks that
I have accumulated. The students could use it, considering that their
fleet suffered some fatalities:

http://wilko.webzone.ru/wreck-1.jpg

My boats have seen a decent amount of water, although I spent slightly
less days on the water in 2003 than in previous years. The water levels
in the autumn and winter sure played a prominent role... but alas many
of my once regular paddling buddies have changed their priorities after
getting married and getting kids. For example, Niels and Steven have
paddled maybe once in the past six months.

Fortunately I have found a bunch of other fun people to paddle with. I
got to paddle with a German group for the first time on the upper Rur
(Germany) on Saturday, and with a mixed (Dutch, British and German)
group on the upper Lesse (Belgium) on Sunday. I hope to get to paddle in
the Czech republic this coming weekend, although with a weather forecast
of -12 degrees C, the water might be a bit to hard to paddle through.
We'll see... :-)

Come to think of it: Isn't Alex getting to be the age where going on the
water as a family could be fun? Maybe with one of you in the Topo-Duo
with Alex and the other in a solo kayak...

Wilko

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Wilko van den Bergh wilko(a@t dse d.o.t)nl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.
http://wilko.webzone.ru/

Wilko wrote:

Come to think of it: Isn't Alex getting to be the age where going on
the water as a family could be fun? Maybe with one of you in the
Topo-Duo with Alex and the other in a solo kayak...

Wilko

Indeed - he got introduced to the joys of canoes last summer when we had a
"potter" :-) Still too active to realise that maintaining a balance is an
important prerequisite for staying dry!

Cheers,
Chris


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Chris Walters
Hungerford, UK
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