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Giottos Vitruvian Tripod – Review

11 January 2015 / / 0 Comments

For a number of years I have managed perfectly without the need of a tripod for my camera work. I say managed as I never really had seen a need for a tripod when my arms work just fine. However after trying a number of tripods and settling on the Giottos Vitruvian I can now appreciate that a tripod has a home within my kayaking camera kit.

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I wanted a system that was light, could handle getting wet and would be a sound investment. After much reading I settled on the Giottos Vitruvian carbon tripod with the MH5400 head and MH652 quick release plate.

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Astral Socks

11 January 2015 / / 0 Comments

Astral have recently launch some socks to compliment their range of on/off water footwear. Pretty simple but the specs look good.

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Unsponsored In 2015

10 January 2015 / / 0 Comments

I have big plans for Unsponsored in 2015. It will mean another move to a much faster server with even greater storage facilities. With thousands of view each and every day and growing month on month it’s time to move again but this has its costs.

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I’ve been researching crowdsource funding over the last few months and rejected most of them as they are unsuitable for where I want Unsponsored to go. I love T shirts and know lots of you guys do to. So I have placed an Unsponsored design here online as a campaign to raise some much needed funds for the server move. Continue reading

Reader’s Rides 2015 – Jon Wyles

10 January 2015 / / 0 Comments

Name: Jon Wyles
Location: Scotland
Kayaking ability: Questionable

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4th year Geography student at St Andrews. Grade 3/4 uni boater with 3 years experience.

Boats:

I’ve never owned my own boat, almost entirely due to lack of funds and also due to the fact that the University has quite a large inventory of boats. I first frequented an old Liquid Logic Huck, which saw me through the first few trips I’d been on. This unfortunately was involved in a swim on a high Knaike while in use by another member of the club who shall remain unnamed (James McMahon), and was not seen again.

First Trip

Above: Me on my first river trip (Grandtully), on one of the Huck’s last voyages. Photo: Jonny Hawkins

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The Liquid Logic Flying Squirrel vs. The Pyranha 9R

3 January 2015 / / 1 Comment

Amy and I are considering purchasing a new kayaks and were curious about two new boats: the Liquid Logic Flying Squirrel and the Pyranha 9R. Both boats are sub-nine foot boats designed to go fast. I was especially intrigued by the looks of the 9R, and Amy was excited by the buzz about the Flying Squirrel. When Woody Callaway of Liquid Logic offered a Flying Squirrel 85 for a test run, we decided to see if we could make a complete investigation.

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Nikki with the Pyranha 9R

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Liquidlogic Flying Squirrel – Review

28 December 2014 / / 7 Comments

Liquidlogic Flying Squirrel - Review

The Squirrel is Liquidlogic’s latest white water kayak and the second designed through the company’s Automatic For The People initiative. Demand for a boat similar to Liquidlogic’s successful Remix but with additional bow rocker and volume in addition to an overall increase in volume was high. In fact Liquid Logic used the original Remix model as the starting point for the Flying Squirrel and built in many of the features that both team members and Liquid Logic fans had been calling for.

I have been lucky enough to get hold of one of the first Squirrels to land here in the UK and have been paddling Squirrel each week over the last couple of months. Over the years I have owned a number of Liquidlogic boats including – Vision, Ronin, Biscuit, and Stomper, so I was very interested to give this new #automaticforthepeople kayak a try.

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Joby Suction Cup, Locking And GorillaPod Arm

27 December 2014 / / 3 Comments

Joby have been releasing great accessories for action cameras (POV) for years now. The original GorillaPod being an outstanding product and now available in all sorts of sizes, colours, and materials to hold what ever you can throw at them or fit in with your fashion. Easy to carry, intuitive to use and outstanding performance. So what is Joby’s latest offering and how will it improve your game?

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The Joby Suction Cup and Locking arm/GorillaPod arm is another suction cup to add to the current market, now I know there are quite a few knocking about, GoPro produce one, Contour produce one, you can also go on eBay and pick one up for reasonably cheap but like those annoying Sat Nav suction cups they fall off, or simply don’t have the suction to hold onto most surfaces.

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Composite Kayak/Canoe Repair

24 December 2014 / / 0 Comments

How to patch a canoe slalom boat – the video below is a time lapse of how to patch a canoe slalom boat. To help you out I have made a detailed written description of the process I went through of how to patch a canoe slalom boat. I would like to say a special thanks to Easy Composites who provided me with the repairs equipment for this video, if you need any resources to do your repair make sure to head over to their website www.easycomposites.co.uk.


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To complete this repair I only used the equipment and products I have in my canoe slalom repair kit. This step by step guide on how to patch a canoe slalom boat, I hope you are able to repair your boat.

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Chris Gragtmans Explains – IR 2015 Arch Rival Drysuit

23 December 2014 / / 0 Comments

Chris Gragtmans gives us a run down of the new Immersion Research (2015) Arch Rival Drysuit. It’s also worth keeping an eye out for the new 9ft boat from Dagger currently named the Phantom.

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Immersion Research – New Website

17 December 2014 / / 0 Comments

The new IR website is looking rather good. As is their new range of gear. Looking forward to having a chance to test some of the gear out.

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Pyranha 9r Crushing It On The Green River

16 December 2014 / / 0 Comments

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Pyranha Thighbrace Install

14 December 2014 / / 0 Comments

Adrian Durrant takes us through a Pyranha Thighbrace Install upgrade.

Lots of people lately have been purchasing Pyranha club spec boats and asking about upgrading the boat with thigh braces, this is a really simple job to do and will take about 10 minutes to complete.

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By adding thigh braces will give you much better control of the boat especially in moving water whilst edging the boat, it also allows you to upgrade to a ratchet backrest with the thigh braces pre drilled to take a ratchet.

Here’s a quick step by step guide to fitting Connect thigh braces into a club spec Z-One.

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