Headed to Wales for a few days intending to get some boating done. We brought a SUP for the boys and my sailing canoe.
Found it was easy to get out on the lake if parking next to the playground – a couple of useful slipways (marked in red) and I always got parking at the green cross.
The weather was largely kind, except for the last day. A good trip out on the boat. Got some good speed up when the wind was clean.
A useful test of taking passengers – which was OK if careful – the passenger can fit in the forward section is careful, though it doesn’t look comfortable. It was useful though for rescuing people wandering downwind on their SUPs.
On the final day there was soem drama – the winds were really too high for me and I went out to rescue a SUP boarding teenager – I managed to get across the lake despite scary gusts and a nearly out of control sail, but when I landed at the far side to help the SUPer quite a large hole was put into the boat on the rocks – mainly my fault – it was driven into the rocks by the wind as I hauled it out – downsides of a lightwieght boat.
The damage was repaired easily enough once home, by cutting out a clean hold and first sticking on a backing section.
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