Saturday, August 29, 2009

Fluid Ex Demo Boats for Sale

We are selling off our Ex Demo Fluid Boats.
All models are available and some of the popular models we have 2 to sell. Click here on our website for details. Save yourself at least 25% on retail and get yourself on the river this Autumn. Phone us for details. We have L and M Spice, L Solo and L Nemesis in Perth but we can get any other models up for you to have a look at.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

River Ness Marathon

Ness Kayak and Canoe MarathonSunday 2nd August 2009

Nairn Man Peter Ralph of Nairn Kayak Club and Inverness Canoe Club placed fifth overall in the 2009 Ness kayak marathon and placed second in the long course Wavehopper K1 class with a time of 1:49 and 44 seconds. A hard fought race up the Caledonian Canal against a strong wind was only slightly made up on the way down the River Ness due to its very low levels on the day. The overall winner was Mark Bragg of Integrate Paddling Aberdeen , setting a new long course record of 1:21 and 27 seconds coming in ten minutes ahead of all other paddlers, bringing 2 minutes off the previous record. Long course Canadian C2 event was won by Royal CC paddlers from London James Irvine and Shao Tan with a time of 2:27 and 31 seconds.

Short course winners were Paul Cornet of Inverness CC with a time of 1:28 and 40 seconds, just 9 seconds ahead of his nearest rival in the male K1 event and Inverness CC paddler Suzy Beaumont won the female K1 class with a time of 1:28 and 45 seconds. The short course Canadian C2 winners were Andrew Brownlow and Hamet Auty with a time of 1:10 and 30 seconds.

The event was generously sponsored jointly by H20 Outdoors and Brookbank Canoes Perth, Our thanks go to Cam and the team at Brookbank canoes for the assistance in making this a successful event.

Steve Mackinnon

Ness Kayak and Canoe Marathon organiser




Ness Marathon 2009 Race results

Long Course

Long course K1 Male

Place

Name

Time

Club

Boat

Class

1

Mark Bragg

1:21:27

Integrate Paddling

Marathon K1

Vetran

2

Derek Marshall

1:31:10

Linlithgow KR

Marathon K1

Vetran

3

James Fairley

1:33:27

NESKY

Marathon K1

Vetran

4

Colin McMorrin

1:35:05

KCC

Wavehopper

Senior

5

Peter Ralph

1:49:44

Inverness CC

Wavehopper

Vetran

6

Laurence Phin

1:49:49

Inverness CC

Wavehopper

Vetran

7

Greg Manning

1:50:50

Integrate Paddling

Touring K1

Vetran

8

Gordon McKenna

3:03:23

Inverness CC

Touring K1

Vetran

9

Paul Clayton

3:03:23

Inverness CC

Touring K1

Vetran

Long course K2

Place

Name

Time

Club

Boat

Class

1

Simon Kay /

John Kavenagh

1:50:20

Macclesfield

Racing K2

Vetran

2

Gordon Milne /

Debra Storr

1:51:05

NESKY

Sea K2

Vetran

Long course Open Canadian C2

Place

Name

Time

Club

Boat

Class

1

James Irving /

Shao Tan

2:27:31

Royal CC

Open Canadian

Senior

2

Dave Preece /

Ann Marie Markle

2:28:25

Open Canadian

Senior


Saturday, August 1, 2009

Upper Tummel & New Products

Last week Fozz told us he wanted to go run the Upper Tummel. We knew it was releasing on Thursday night so we told a few folks we would be heading that way after work. We ended up with 19 people on the river.
Craigy Wilson running the Falls.

Thanks to AD for the Photos. It was evening so they are a little dark but you get the idea. I could list everyone that was there but that would take ages. You know who you are. Thanks it was alot of fun.

WAVE SPORT

We have had the new D65 and D75 in from Wavesport. These boats are the same shape as the old model with a whole new outfitting and made in the UK to Boot. The finish on them looks great and the outfitting wel thought out. At £599.00 the hold great value for money. Loyalty Card Package deal available on this boat too.


D65 Pride of Place in the Shop (The first D75 we have had in has already sold)

SWEET
We have the new Sweet Wanderer Helmet in stock now too. In Black, Red or Gloss White.


BIG DOG KAYAKS
Big Dog Kayaks. The new kids on the block have been slowly getting their new models to us. We have had the Kaos in and we have a demo available. A great playboat with to outfitting options.
The other models in the range are set to be with us late summer early autumn.