I finally got the movie that I've put together from the summer uploaded, it took a while! I've called the movie Current Affairs, check it out:
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out but let me know what you think!
A log of a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the island of Ireland in a 22ft sailboat departing in June 2020.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
News from Wildalpen
Having a great time here in Wildalpen at the moment, lots of work broken up with the odd day off due to the water level being too high to run trips. Up untill yesterday the highest most of the guides had run the river was 250cm. Then yesterday morning we woke up and the level was at 330cm and nearly over-flowing into the campsite! There was no way any commercial trips were going ahead at that level so we called around all the guides and headed out paddling! The trip was made up of one raft full of guides from Liquid Lifestyle and a load of kayak instructors from all the different companies; it was savage craic! The Salsa at that level is definatly the biggest volume river I've ever run, full of massive waves and holes that you really want to steer clear of! A few of the waves were big enough to get massive bounce in the playboat and the rest were savage for wave wheels, kick flips and macho move attempts!
Whenever the river gets a good bit lower, about 160cm, the local play hole, the Helli Welle, comes into it's own. We've had a few sweet sessions there recently, heres a video I put together from last week:
The footage is a bit blurry but you get the general idea. The best footage is being saved for a movie that I'm working on, 'Current Affairs'. Keep an eye out for it September sometime!
Whenever the river gets a good bit lower, about 160cm, the local play hole, the Helli Welle, comes into it's own. We've had a few sweet sessions there recently, heres a video I put together from last week:
The footage is a bit blurry but you get the general idea. The best footage is being saved for a movie that I'm working on, 'Current Affairs'. Keep an eye out for it September sometime!
Friday, June 15, 2012
Settling into Austria
Since the last post we've pretty much spent our time going looking for rivers to paddle, chilling out and doing a bit of work here and there.
After the first nice day or two the weather turned pretty shite. We went on a few missions looking for steep creeks to paddle but somehow everything we've travelled to so far has been too high and we actually havnt got on any decent rivers here yet. We have scoped out a few rivers that we want to paddle when the levels are right tho, there definatly are some sweet ones to be found around here if you're on the ball with levels and stuff.
In the last few days the sun has come back and we've done a good bit of work painting and stuff, getting the place looking shiny for when the busy times start. I've had a few good freestyle sessions too. They started off pretty woeful thanks to not paddling the playboat for around two months but things are improving pretty quick. At the moment my goal is to get McNasties down reasonably solid in the next few weeks.
The real work starts in the morning. We've got 90 people coming in to go rafting so every raft that floats is getting onto the river and we've even had to borrow a few. Sunday should be something similar and next week I'm going working in a different company around two and a half hours away from here since they're short staff. I've got 5 days guaranteed work out of it so I'm happy out :)
After the first nice day or two the weather turned pretty shite. We went on a few missions looking for steep creeks to paddle but somehow everything we've travelled to so far has been too high and we actually havnt got on any decent rivers here yet. We have scoped out a few rivers that we want to paddle when the levels are right tho, there definatly are some sweet ones to be found around here if you're on the ball with levels and stuff.
In the last few days the sun has come back and we've done a good bit of work painting and stuff, getting the place looking shiny for when the busy times start. I've had a few good freestyle sessions too. They started off pretty woeful thanks to not paddling the playboat for around two months but things are improving pretty quick. At the moment my goal is to get McNasties down reasonably solid in the next few weeks.
The real work starts in the morning. We've got 90 people coming in to go rafting so every raft that floats is getting onto the river and we've even had to borrow a few. Sunday should be something similar and next week I'm going working in a different company around two and a half hours away from here since they're short staff. I've got 5 days guaranteed work out of it so I'm happy out :)
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Austria Part 1
After a 16 hour drive across Europe minus GPS and a day paddling 35km along the Salza to get to know the river again we had our first days work with Liquid Lifesyle in Wildalpen today. I was raft guiding and Neil took a beginners kayak course; a good few more days like that and the budget will start to look a lot healthier! We're living in a room/shed/shack thing thats warm, dry and about a 30 second walk from work and 5 minutes away from a few sweet play holes. Hopefully we'll get to explore all the local creeks over the next few weeks as well as working and freestyle paddling. Good times!
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