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posted by Pete @ 9:10 AM 0 comments

E.R.R. 2oo9

Is it possible to go to Scotland and just have a normal paddling trip? In my experience no! This trip was no different it was a proper paddling adventure. The reason for heading far far north again was to take part in the 2nd ever Active River Race, the Active for thoughts who don’t know is a corking little river that flows west off Rannoch More in the highlands of Scotland. Last year the race experienced 18 hours of solid rain before the event witch turned the nice little river into a raging monster. The race that was to be held on the normal section of the river (triple falls down to Right angel falls) was caned and moved to the upper section, last year myself and Graham Milton of Fluxed shirt fame came first in the sponsored category, what happened this year I hear you all cry! Well read on………


(The Etive, Last year.)

I left London village bright and breezy Thursday morning and headed to collect my fellow team mate & mates from the kayaking metropolis of Nottingham, we then headed of into the night bound for Scotland. Gosh what a long way away that place is, after a lovely comfortable journey with no problems or issues we arrived! In the rain wind, cold, typical Scottish weather had a few beers in the local pub then fell asleep in there car park! Standard kayak practice. The next day, Friday the rain was still falling, but on the brighter side of life the river was full, Ish….
3 Or 4 runs down the Etive later, and a bow tie tying instructional video in the can, our race lines were dialed in and we went back to the pub! The race day was nearly here.
Saturday morning dawned surprisingly bright and sunny; we loaded up the car and headed off to the Glen Coe Ski centre, slightly of topic this place is up for sale! You must be able to do so much with that place, Bargain for someone. The river had now started to drop due to the uncharacteristically nice sunny weather and I think that may have given the early competitors a slight advantage, must not grumble though, Me & G set of for our race pretty much at the end of the day followed by Mr. T and JC. Now I don’t think we had the best run down, my small capsize was low point of the race for me! But we both nailed the big last drop at right angel, I finished about one inch behind Graham, we kept it close! Mr.T & JC were just behind us they both had solid runs down; Tom taking the NEW Burn for its first competitive outing was suitably impressed. Race done it was back to the pub! Do you see a pattern here? Then followed probably one of the best nights I’ve ever had in a pub, Good time. Amazingly me and Graham won the sponsored race AGAIN! Yeah….. The nice big trophy is back on the mantel piece & the £200 prize money, was drunk. The shine was taken off our win, only a little when we found out that we had been beaten by two 15 year old, but hats off to them, here are the excuses already! They must have had a good clean race, and they did start at the front end of the day with more water. Ha Ha, well done guys. Good slalom training winning threw there I recon. I forgot to take the camera out of me peli case for the entire trip luckily other people did take pictures and I will try to get some soon. Roll on next year.

posted by Pete @ 7:57 AM 0 comments

First Look...

Have a look at this! Another new composite boat soon to be released to the market.... Quite a unique day today, paddling at HPP in the sun! And it was great to meet up with my old mate Jon Boy, fresh back from his trip to worlds (Finished top UK paddler! Well done mate) the new boat is undergoing a few minor alterations, keep watching kids big thumbs up all round.


(Give it a quick go!)

(play with the seat position!)

(And there off again!)


(Next stop, find a big wave!)

posted by Pete @ 10:40 AM 0 comments

What have we been doing!

Well, all of you how read this blog often will notice that we haven’t written a blog for some time, basically we’ve been very very busy. Despite the rather dodgy economic times we are in we have just had one of our best ever summers, lots of customer coming through the door, lots of kit and boats going out , lots of boats and bits that need to be repaired and sorted out, so far are favorite has been replacing the end caps of P&H Revenges!

(Mr. Tickle at work)
Not an easy job unless you are Mr. Tickle and have arms 6ft long. On the boating basically for me it’s been a drought! 164 since I last paddled a river (I’m not including the Thames or HPP in this!!!!) although we have still all been out 5-6 times a week at either Chertsey or at Slaloms around the country. Talking of slaloms this week end gone we were supposed to have our first Division 2 slalom at the drainage ditch at Cardington, However due to possibly the most unhelpful and grumpy people I’ve ever met at a slalom, whom would not let us enter, we had an hour an a half drive there then came straight back! GREAT………



(No not the queue for Hurley! just the practice session at the ditch)

I will never ever ever ever go to Cardington again! EVER. Any how on a happier note we now also have some SUP from Circle One, I’ve been a little wary of these in the past,

(Pete on the SUP, Fun in the sun)

but I can happily say that there amazing so easy and fun to jump on and go for a great little cruse, so long as you don’t fall in you don’t even have to bother to get changed! Proper summer sport. We’ve also been working on some top secret testing for Pyranha, well been working on for some time actually but now after over a year of prototyping, Re: shaping prototyping some more I don’t think it will be long before you see the new Pyranha Play boat.


(Seth throwing down @ Chertsey)

Based very loosely on the Rev it has a completely new hull and rails, totally new deck and is looking very Sweet, and very fast. I’m pretty sure, and I hope Pyranha don’t mind me saying this available in plastic and Full Carbon (boat weight around 7 / 8 Kg haven’t broken one yet!) all things going well it will have it’s first public showing at this weekend Pyranha Fest, held at the Treweryn white water centre north Wales (Look here for more info). Roll on the winter season,
speak soon
L8r

posted by Pete @ 6:37 AM 0 comments