Performance Sea Kayak
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Performance Sea Kayak is a website that displays various UK + Ireland-based sea kayaking achievements, We want to create a permanent register of those who are out to push their limits. You can read PSK Blogs which contain sea-kayak records, long-distance expeditions, or historic first attempts. You can consult paddling guides, learn training tips or find paddling videos.
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
As I’ve said before, the Puffin TT is a bit of a bugger. 18 years of it now and it still hurts, always has. And in a way that is the point of it. Why? Well the hurting bit is not about some masochistic tendancy, put simplistically it means you are pushing your limits, and that ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
Pull up a chair, it’s a long one… I was asked about the effectiveness of the rudder during/countering a bongo slide while riding the River Dee Bore: “Does the rudder have any effect to help escape the bongo?” Well, no, not really. Let me try to explain. The Rudder As the boat moves forward the ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
In July 2022 I paddled a single-day, 116 km lap of the isle of Islay, Scotland. Here’s the story: The Challenge I like doing these things, paddling laps of islands. It’s partly the test of making it around under your own steam, the physical and mental challenge, but I also like solving the tidal-puzzle, getting ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
Climbing Snowdonia. Like many people, I’ve been chasing the clock for years, decades even. The numbers tells it how it is, there are no excuses. And yet, there is a gap in the tangibility somehow. One run you are 15 secs up, the next 15 down. It ebbs and flows, without a distinct conclusion. But ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
It wasn’t such a good day for surf; however you can still get something useful from it, and have a bit of fun. So here it was time to ‘paddle a few squares’: Paddle out through – working break timings and looking for gaps, Then paddle across just on the edge of ‘the break ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
Penrhyn Mawr is a tide race on the W coast of the Isle of Anglesey*, UK. The flooding tide, a rocky headland and a number of shallow reefs work together to form the often impressive tide race. It is a popular moving-water paddling spot in the UK sea kayaking scene. Here I mix a bit ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
Penrhyn Mawr is a tide race on the W coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, UK. The tide, a rocky headland and a number of shallow reefs work together to form this section of overfalls/tide race. It is a popular moving-water paddling spot in the UK sea kayaking scene. Conditions change extensively with wind, swell and ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
It looks like a bunch of squiggles on the GPS track, but it is actually 4 runs of the Killer 8s session. The original Killer Islands sess is a simple one, start on either Bangor shore or Anglesey shore, round the island (Gored Goch – GG) and return to the start point – paddle hard ..read more
Performance Sea Kayak
1y ago
Off to the Skerries once again, and why not? The sun is out after all. The norm is for a left turn out of Cemlyn Bay, and go with the flow until you hit something. Hopefully before Ireland. But today we want a little more from the day. We are going to practice a little ..read more