As we'v ebeen scratching around for water as usual lets tease ourselves with some big water this week. First up from south america - the Baker way down the south end of Chile, so its cold, Africa's Zambezi is warm though, even when in flood. Next were off to asia for some really good photos of some russian rivers. nice to see the russian stuff so well shot. Scroll down and you can pick out some shots of monster holes! On that theme there is a talk in Staveley tonight about some of the same areas covered on the kayakUSSR site.

Stu Miller has a few rainchasers stickers left  for a fiver. He also offers discounts for his varied tinting and signwriting skills for rainchasers browsers.

Spreadshirt (who run the shop) are offering 20% off at the mo just type in "EASTER2K8" as a 'voucher code'. Valid till the end of the month. Sorry if you just ordered one without!!

Sorry about the delay I have been battling with viruses and cyber pricks, whilst Ned is busy aswell.

So here we go for a forecast, the ground is wet so any rain should bring stuff up. General out look is for rain tonight throught till morning easing to drizzle throughout Saturday. This will come in from the West heading North Eastwards Boarders should get the most water along with Lakes, and mid Wales the rest of country is pretty useless.

Sunday is meant to be wet for the morning all over but clearing in the afternoon as it heads Southwards.

Not mch on the surf side apart from the south west looks to be better than the east! Tides are heading back to neaps next week so not a great deal there.

Will be out and about somewhere have fun. cheers

The milanese fashion houses are trembling with the news that rainchasers has gone into the world of haute cauture.

Basically its our attempt to get the funding of the site to be sound. We made enough out of shap to go for this year but what we spend on the website itself we cant use for cams and gauges. There is still the gauge to buy bits for and potential cams that all need paying for. Cumbria canoeists have offered to pay for one which is cool, but the project is dragging due lack of technical know how to come up with a plan that will actually work within budget (an outdoor IP web cam is too much). There are solutions but they are going to take some experimentation, and more importantly, time, to sort out. Anyway thats the justification to offer you some clobber, and charge you a few quid extra for a hoodie or tee with our logo on it. prices come out pretty competitive with other companies who trade off extreme sports hype, so why not ....

I really want total editorilal freedom and openess for the site.  Anyone (with no direct commercial interest) can contribute to rainchasers and it needs more contributors. if you know me, please dont feel obliged to buy one, I've not bought one yet cos im a stingy, scruffy git and have got enough to wear atm

Im hoping we can do more designs soon and offer something else by way of "off the water wear for the fashion unconscious".