Kayak for Kids – Paddlers Wanted
With a new year it’s time for a new challenge and the first event of the year is Kayak for Kids, a 17.5km paddle on Sydney Harbour to raise money…
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Happy Holiday Break
What a year! Well, for the Christmas holiday period here in Australia I’ve done the time-honoured ritual of packing the wife, kids and kayak into and onto the car for…
Competition: Where’s the Fat Paddler?
With 2009 drawing to a close I thought it time to run one last competition. The last competition is – “Where’s the Fat Paddler?“. To enter, follow the following steps:…
Morning paddles with Anne Marie
A visiting work colleague from our Chicago office, Anne Marie has been a fan of FatPaddler.com for quite some time. It only made sense then that I should take her…
Ciao Cayenne, thanks for the memories
When I decided to sell Cayenne, my Boréal Design Nanook, I thought it would take a while. After all, she’s a high class girl and doesn’t come cheap. But in…
Puffin Paddle – For the Love of a Brother
I was recently introduced to the story of brothers Martin & James Gribble by a stranger I met at the pub one night. It’s an incredible story of tragedy and…
Hawkesbury Classic Tweeterview with @ireckon
I just did an interview on Twitter with @ireckon (who just happened to be in Team Fat Paddler) via Tweeterview where I shared my experience during the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic….
Google prefers kayakers
Credit to Pat Wellner for bringing this to my attention! On a recent search for directions from his home in South Dakota USA to Sydney, an interesting instruction came up…
Video Montage – Hawkesbury Canoe Classic 2009
A four minute compressed version of an 18 hour overnight kayak endurance event held on the Hawkesbury River in NSW (Australia) to raise money for Leukaemia research. Featuring the Fat…
Summer Beach Party with SHK
Sydney Harbour Kayaks are putting on their Summer Launch Party for paddling friends and family to bring in the sunny season on Saturday 31st October down at The Spit. They’ve…
Harbour Sighting – Ella’s Pink Lady
One of the reasons I love paddling Sydney Harbour so much is there is always something cool to see. On this particular paddle, it was the bright pink yacht “Ella’s…
Paddling the Wyong River at night
A bloke named Ned, another Hawkesbury Canoe Classic competitor, got in contact with me a little while back and we decided to meet up for a night-time paddle as part…
Competition: Name Fat Paddler’s kayak
As the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic approaches, a small niggling problem has started to bug me. That is the fact that my kayak doesn’t have a name. My other kayak, my…
When sporting bets go wrong – #twitterbetloserfriday
Apart from kayaking, my other passion is rugby union, and in particular supporting my local team (Waratahs) and my national team, the Wallabies. For our national side, our biggest rivalry…
