David Moffatt » paddling http://www.davidmoffatt.com.au Passionate about the community and participating in interesting challenges. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:51:09 +0000 en hourly 1 First day of paddling http://www.davidmoffatt.com.au/2010/06/first-day-of-paddling/ http://www.davidmoffatt.com.au/2010/06/first-day-of-paddling/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:51:46 +0000 David Moffatt http://www.davidmoffatt.com.au/2010/06/first-day-of-paddling/ After 880km and 38 and a half hours riding on mountain bikes, today we get a taste for fast tides and high winds. It blew 25 plus all evening so we will be tested in seeking to get 65km of paddling behind us today. At least after our trailer fire we are not carrying any excess weight!

We rely on the Bureau of Meterology for our wind, tide and weather outlook. This mornings forecast, for our first long paddle day is testing (and hopefully favourable). Testing in that seas will be 1.2 to 1.7 metres with swells to 2.0 metres and winds to 30 knots. Favourable in that the winds are South Easterly. With a northward journey our challenge will be avoiding drifting too far west!

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