So morning trainings on the harbour are basically infeasible now. So training has slowed a fair amount; I am still cross training most days and polo as well.
Andy Blake, like some kind of fairy godmother has been fantastic over this last couple of weeks and is providing me with a boat to cross in and VHF radio and personal beacon and a quality deck and dry bags and paddle float. I bought a set of Shark Skin gear too (warm stuff), so all I need now is a paddle jacket, maybe a PFD, and a support craft.
Holidays start next week. I am going to take two days for relaxing and prepping then take off from Paekak and head north up the coast for a few days, maybe a week. I haven’t quite decided, however I think I am just going to see how far I can go. And it gives me a good chance to see how far I can get in a day. And I get a fair amount of training in Andy’s boat and that is a perk too.
I will keep you posted on what I will do. I think the EPIRB (personal beacon) has a tracking Google tracking device in it as well so I may be able to hook up a kind of live stream map of where I am, I will find out and link it if it will work.
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Putting cradle on. Fantastic facial expression.
Boat secure.
Andy Blake.