Hello from Derbyshire
Hi Everyone.
My name is Joe and I am looking forward to becoming a novice canoer!
I've done a very small amount of canoeing and kayaking before, years ago really, but two weeks ago I joined some work colleagues for a two day canoe trip down the Wye and now I think I'm in love with it. I can't stop thinking about it!
I have a vague plan as follows:
- Hire a canoe at Carsington Water for a couple of hours (with tuition) and get the flat water basics sorted for my wife and I.
- Hire a canoe for a day from Trent Adventure and have 10 hours going down the Trent.
- Decide that I still love it and see if my wife is enthused too.
- Buy a canoe! Probably one of these entry level jobs with the buoyant sandwich layer.
- Sort a River License
- Start exploring local canals
- Take it from there!
Your thoughts on that?
We've already got decent buoyancy aids from the sailing we've done. So , apart from a couple of paddles, is there anything else we'll really need to get cracking? Maybe a dry bag or two, or a barrel?
Does anyone have any recommendations for decent, introductory paddles in the Midlands/S. Yorkshire? I've been browsing the routes on the Go Paddle website, but it's hard to tell which would be the more salient choices.
Looking foward to getting into the forum.
Cheers,
Joe
My name is Joe and I am looking forward to becoming a novice canoer!
I've done a very small amount of canoeing and kayaking before, years ago really, but two weeks ago I joined some work colleagues for a two day canoe trip down the Wye and now I think I'm in love with it. I can't stop thinking about it!
I have a vague plan as follows:
- Hire a canoe at Carsington Water for a couple of hours (with tuition) and get the flat water basics sorted for my wife and I.
- Hire a canoe for a day from Trent Adventure and have 10 hours going down the Trent.
- Decide that I still love it and see if my wife is enthused too.
- Buy a canoe! Probably one of these entry level jobs with the buoyant sandwich layer.
- Sort a River License
- Start exploring local canals
- Take it from there!
Your thoughts on that?
We've already got decent buoyancy aids from the sailing we've done. So , apart from a couple of paddles, is there anything else we'll really need to get cracking? Maybe a dry bag or two, or a barrel?
Does anyone have any recommendations for decent, introductory paddles in the Midlands/S. Yorkshire? I've been browsing the routes on the Go Paddle website, but it's hard to tell which would be the more salient choices.
Looking foward to getting into the forum.
Cheers,
Joe