Rock, Roll and Rescue with Team Fat Paddler
With a huge low pressure system sitting off Australia’s east coast, temperatures plummeted, rain poured down and the ocean swell jacked up to a massive 6 metres. Daily weather warnings…
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Liquidlogic Remix XP10 – A New Kayak for Rocks, Rivers and Ocean Whitewater
As I’ve found myself drawn to dynamic ocean whitewater, my boat needs have started to change as my paddling shifts from medium distance exploration to short bursts of speed and…
Q&A with Cmdr Eric Soares, Tsunami Rangers, on Kayak Surfing and Rock Gardens
The Tsunami Rangers are well know for their crazy antics in big surf, wild rock gardens and surfing in caves. This band of renegade paddlers spent many a year playing…
Review: Badger Paddles and Paddle Socks
At the beginning of the year I was lucky enough to travel to Canada where I picked up a number of canoe paddles from the man who makes them himself,…
Ocean Whitewater Aussie Styles – Surfing Canoes
Some time back I met a great couple of Aussie canoe fans online and hooked up for a paddle on the flooded Colo River (where we were involved in a…
Video: Kayak Surfing, Tsunami Ranger Styles
Sydney’s weather today – ocean swell up to 3 metres, westerly gale force winds, coastal warnings for “large swell breaking dangerously onshore”. These conditions are dangerous and will keep many…
6th UK Storm Gathering Sea Kayak Symposium
Everyone knows the Fat Paddler is an Aussie, but few know that his roots are far more Celtic with a fair bit of Irish, English and Welsh in his blood….
Team Fat Paddler farewells Lt Cmdr Gelo with some Rock Garden fun at Gelo Cliffs
A small contingent of Team Fat Paddler gathered at the The Spit to see off one of the team’s most popular members, Lt Cmdr Gelo. After a year paddling canoes…
Paddling under the stars with Team Fat Paddler
Last week the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic officially opened for registration and the lads from Team Fat Paddler quickly signed up. Many of them have yet to have a decent night…
Canoe Test Paddle: Wenonah Minnesota II
With Hawkesbury Canoe Classic 2011 just four months away, it was time to test the boat I’ve been looking at using for this year’s race. Like last year I’m keen…
Paddle your way to fun and fulfilment
Last weekend in some pretty ugly conditions four of us got together for a paddle – three Team Fat Paddlers, and a new paddling friend we’d made from Facebook. We’d…
Paddle for the Planet meets Commando Camping plus Team Fat Paddler farewells Lt Cmdr Gelo
It was always going to be a bittersweet moment. Our very own Gelo had announced his intention to move back to Europe and that he’d miss the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic….
Paddle for the Planet
It’s cryptic, its almost mythic, but “Paddle for the Planet” is finally here this weekend. The goal is to get paddlers together all over the world to hit the water…
Rock Gardens are like the Ocean, never turn your back on them – a painful lesson for Fat Paddler
It started off well. Mike, Lt. Gelo and I met at Sydney Harbour Kayaks at the start of a magnificent Saturday morning. We kitted up in protective gear – wetsuits,…
