Sailing, Surfing and other things waterbased

Looks lovely. Show us your tow boat :)

Shared 13 ways. Keeps the bills under control!

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Excellent.

13 ways; that's good going!

Looks like a lot of fun.

Keeps it cheap and everyone is busy, so if anything it's underused.

Also had a first shot on this last night, great fun, was buzzing until 1am after coming off the water at 10pm

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4ft waves with a >15ss period predicted for Tuesday 13th down Porthtowan way, with Saunton getting smaller >15s as well.

And brisk offshore, nice

Golden Globe 2022 yacht race has started, tracking here for anyone interested.

https://goldengloberace.com/live-tracker/

Yeah man. Its a tempting set of circumstances to ask for a day of leave!

Is there any scope for a soon-to-be divorced 46 year old carpenter/joiner/practical chap to dive into a RYA yachtmasters course and then get employment all year round sailing the seven seas (or just the shitty brown ones hereabouts)? Got a fairly agreeable mortgage to pay (<£700 p/m), but the house can be rented out i suppose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-gAdzDb3c

these boats are really flying, top speed in one of the sailgp races was 99.9 km/h
and the sight of 9 boats all vying for position in close proximity is quite a spectacle

Skippers rates very, £100 a day at the low end and that’s usually for a 24hr day. Probably need to get about 5000 nautical miles under your belt before you start earning anything. The YM fast track gets you about 2500 NM, minimum required to take the exam. You can earn lots more if you go and work on super yachts but that’s horrible apparently. The nicer work is youth work/teaching/sail training but it’s pretty low paid and definitely more of a lifestyle choice. Delivery work is variable - not something I have any experience of.

Surf lake, steam punk wave pool

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Hey, forgot to say thanks for your reply, it was helpful and informative

The Eddie is on! Backdoor Shootout last night, this tonight. Love Hawaiian winters
https://www.theeddieaikau.com/

My brother did yachty stuff. There's also work for the holiday companies - Sunsail, Nielsen etc... - that usually usually leads to delivery work too, mostly Med, but sometimes cross-Atlantic.

It's all lifestyle though for the journeyman skipper - low pay, rubbish hours, high chance of injury, and few transferable skills once you stop.

He's a plumber now...

Dredging this thread as I've just got a canoe from my parents who are moving away from their riverside home.

I revised for my History A levels in this thing. Now I'm a History teacher and live 10 minutes away from a river.

I tried that 10 minute walk with a canoe trolley yesterday and I think a bike trailet would be an excellent upgrade.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a bike trailer for pulling a canoe?

I've found one that's too expensive considering it's only $189 in the US:

https://ninefit.uk/products/rambo-bikes-canoe-and-kayak-trailer-cart-heavyduty-kayak-cart-with-300lbs-maximum-capacity-extendable-bike-trailer-adjustable-steel-frame-padded-contact-points-16x3-wheels-for-any-terrain?gclid=CjwKCAjww7KmBhAyEiwA5-PUSmDFmXCl6Nm07G47prjuO8eQFdGC9gFwhrW6nRwltOloATfOEO6jmxoCvJoQAvD_BwE

And one that looks decent but ships from the EU so may also have tariffs etc now:

https://www.wikeeurope.com/products/kayak-cart-1?variant=46930330157401

Any thoughts on these or other recommendations?

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Hoping for a swell during the Olympics waiting period, could be some Jamaican bob sleigh type stories for instance with the 14 year old Chinese girl who qualified. In the meantime, this was a warmup yesterday, pity this swell came a couple weeks early.

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Surely nothing bad could come from buying a “project boat”?

https://carousell.app.link/E4hKzPjZwMb

(For clarity- I am unemployed, and will therefore not be buying this boat).

Project boats are considerably worse than project cars.

All boats are effective ways to incinerate cash, restoration project boats increase this effect exponentially.

I hope the employment situation improves soon.

Doesn't look too bad as projects go. I've seen worse boats advertised as good to go.

Asking price is £14,000- so similar to a project car

I kayaked 14 miles yesterday and my arms feel like they're going to fall off as I've not been out on it for ages and ages, as lovely as it was.

Has anyone added one of those retractable sails onto their kayak? I'm seriously considering getting one now.

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Where did you go out?

I've loved getting into kayaking lately after moving to a place where it's more possible. I've got to get out to the west coast of Scotland at some point to relive some paddling-among-seals memories from when I was younger.

I've never even seen the retractable sails, let alone tried one, but I think trying to control it might be beyond my current skillset.

I managed a tiny bit of kayaking on Mull last week - the wind made things a bit choppy for my little 9ft boat but I found a reasonably calm morning to nose around Loch Scridain.

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With or without a sail? How's 9ft? I'm in an 11.5, and sometimes I feel that's quite short when the sea gets quite choppy, skeg helps though.

@tbc I usually stick to the coast here in the harbours, or out to the sea along by Pagham etc. I also enjoy canals.

I did wonder if a sail would pull the kayak over, but I guess you have to manage the angle of it.