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| Back to old skool! |
| Written by Jack Simpson | |||
| Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:54 | |||
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Once again its dry pretty much everything has dropped off, so we dug deep and got the thnking caps on. Josh just off the plane from Thailand was as keen as mustard to get out, and wanted to try out some new old gear I had just acquired So off we trotted to the Leven again third time in a week for me, I might know the river by now! It was a nice change to have a fresh challenge to get our teeth into. There great disscussion at the get in between ourselves and other paddlers on how the boats would perform and would they survive Ned was doing his bit on the video camera and generally laughing at us whilst Robin took the odd photo and looked gormless. The new old boats were of course glass fibre B.A.Ts (Bath Advanced Trainers) basically the predecessor to the spud. Slight differences in weight, length and performance but nearly the same. The first problem we had was our decks didn't fit so gaffa tape made a rough seal, then off to the brickshoot to pull some new moves!
We didn't find any thing out other then it was cold and wet. Old skool pop outs and surfing with lots off laughing.
We emptied the water out of the boats and carried on, with proper fitting decks they would be great we got all the lines we normally get.
The bridge was next Josh went first and got a spectacular vertical move into the pool below, I managed to stay the right way up but next was the big wier.
Ned and Robin went first to check the line out no contact with rock was made so it was our turn, off Josh and I went. No bother, think the Jefe may be up for sale!
The rest of the river went fine though I had a big wobble and disapearing act in 'hand break eddy' after my deck popped, but was ok.
Cheers Josh Ned and Robin
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was it then home for match of the day and ham burgers