Sunrise is perfect for an early!

Plan is to hit the water at Dead Man's Cove at 6.30am and paddle either to Sandy or back to Table Rock.

All welcome, a few us will probably end up having a solid session and there will be a few crew just enjoying a cruise, so you can pick your preferred pace.

Fluked it this morning and I was supposed to ride, not stroke, but when the alarm went off at 5.30am, I checked the wind and it was 3 kts, n/ne.

No brainer, went to meet up with the the crew at Dead Man's at a tick after 6 and
bugger me if they were already out and half a km up the road!

Anyway, it turned out to be one of those perfect windless, glassy, warm mornings.
Alsup and Rob were also out along with a big pack of Life Savers training on their rescue mals. Interestingly enough, when I was paddling flat chat next to very experienced L/S paddler, we were neck and neck, except he was stroking xxx amount of strokes, gliding and then repeating the process. I was paddling non-stop and still just holding him. The glide on the rescue mals is quite amazing!
I know if we hit wind and chop it would be a non-contest. Rescue mal would win hands down.

All round great morning

Dead Man's Cove won't appear on any maps named as such. It's actually Half Moon Bay aka Black Rock. Also the home of the Cerberus wreck. Recently dubbed Dead Man's Cove after a scuba diver went missing leading to several days searching before he was sadly discovered drowned beneath the wreck.

Yeah I'll have the K15 and the Surf Race 14 because you never know.

Hey Ock,
I affectionately named it Dead Man's, as I happened to paddle at HMB on the days' he went missing, as well as the evening the body was retrieved.




This was a shot taken the evening the police were recovering the body. It was deathly calm, quite serene. Odd thing was, despite there being police everywhere, I was oblivious to the situation at first and as I paddled out, I noticed red rose petals in the water for quite a distance and then I twigged!

I used to regularly dive the Cerebus 30 years ago and it's not somewhere you would want to become disoriented in, day or night!

Looking forward to paddling in the morning.

I was going to say... 'you call that calm?'

Yeah, sorry fella's clicked on the wrong image in my gallery.
My windsurf pic looked pretty tasty for a downwinder though!
Not quite sure what soundtrack you'd put to a video for it though?

Yep DJ, it is me. It was taken a couple of years ago in April during one of those once in a decade storms. Fawkner Beacon recorded a 62 knot gust! Direction was n/nw. Perfect for a downwinder.

I reckon it would require a leggie on both ankles!

I'll be there.. It's looking like a really good morning for paddling..

DJ

Wooz,
When your doing one at dendy st, let me know, I'll come on Jades board. Paddled this afternoon, was awesome!

Time and place?
Her stuff is my stuff...exceptions exist only around My stuff!
Might just paddle out from my place tomorrow morning.

Hi RPS, what's the story with the RPS event this Sunday, re start times, etc etc thanks MJ