5.5m might be overkill for the bays, but don't go for the little 2.9m things the plonkers on facebook constantly recommend

I thought the hull speed of a kayak (the thing that makes longer yaks go faster) was going to be the same irrespective of the mode of propulsion

I use Fishranger, it has pretty much all of the information I want in one place.

I look for wind under 10 knots mainly

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4liters wrote:I'll look after it for you

I can’t fix plastic ones Ian

Ghurkin can

Haha and on cue someone is bragging about picking up a couple of those anaconda Berkeley yaks for $100 each because the weight rating was inaccurate and it should only be rated to 90kg or something. I loved this quote to the $ 100 berkley thread If them taking on water is the only issue with them I...

I'll look after it for you

wokka1 wrote:Saw that. Questionable (perhaps illegal ?) selling behavior from a big retailer.

Yeah I would’ve thought it would be a voluntary recall rather than a sell at cost type situation

Haha and on cue someone is bragging about picking up a couple of those anaconda Berkeley yaks for $100 each because the weight rating was inaccurate and it should only be rated to 90kg or something.

I’ve never gone to the effort of comparing with the discussion in other outdoor activity groups but it does concern me a bit when I see some of the crap spewed on Facebook in the kayaking groups I follow. I think it’s probably only a matter of time before something goes seriously wrong and we end up...

When we thin trees out it lets a lot more undergrowth grow and in combination with how dry it is, fires are much hotter than normal and that kills many natives that would normally survive. They have evolved to survive fire, in fact many need it to release seed, just not as hot as this was. Yeah I s...