@@korma9732 ha. Can’t beat The Who. Keeps me going on those long uphill hikes 👍

Ha. It was a fun weekend. The band is called The Heavy and the track - Short Change Hero. 😀

@@nickthewine3394 ha. Glad you enjoyed it 👍

@@MadMonk_ 👍🤞

😄thanks. I love it, such a cool drop

@@ThatOldGuyYouKnow 👍

@@davehumpleby3440 haha. I learn’t in a dancer too. That might show our age…. I bet a firecracker on the etive would be great

@@davehumpleby3440 👍

4.05 is crazier

@@AlfaRevoluzione haha. This is true

@@paulgreen9641 thanks Paul. 👍

Thanks, she is still sailing beautifully 😀

Ha. Well noticed. This was my fault. I ran out of bits of string. It was all corrected as soon as we got home... I was caught off guard as the reefing points were added by our local sailmaker before the trip. In my defense I do repair any of the sails that we break. Some of our sails have done over a decade of heavy use.

I have to be honest. When it gets over 5ft at Sea Palling I find it a little terrifying. The waves become a bit random and sometimes the big ones barrel over near the sea defences. I've had some decent down time when kitesurfing on more than one occaision.

@@Xyz-q8p thank you. I’m afraid Flynn the dog is also a menace. I had Robin all ready to sail out the dyke last weekend, sails up, just needed to step in and we were off. I turn around to find Flynn has jumped ship to go chase geese and would not come back… oh dear. 😳

@@mathewgravener2285 ah great. Give us a shout if you need a hand👍

👍thanks

It was a great trip. Ireland is fab❤

@@royAB3822 ah great. Another Norfolk woodie 👍. 20yrs in a forest sounds ominous

@@2120edm was either restore or bonfire - the latter would probably have been the better option - reckon about 85% is now new wood 🤔- but, hey, the number has been saved 👍

@@williambrazil3760 yea for sure. We got some great waves at Easkey. My favourite spot so far, as long as I stay off the rocks…

@@the_grand_tourer lovely to have a family built boat like that. I got a few hours work out of my children but they too found it a bit boring. Haha. They do like sailing her though

@@alexanderketh8598 thanks, it was a great trip

@@kurthaage3786 good luck. It’s worth it!! Sometime I would like to restore a grp mk1 too. Great boats 👍

@@danspaghettiman4927 our big swells on the Norfolk coast are driven by storms in the North Sea. These can happen anytime but its usually September / October that we get lucky 👍

Ha. It was tons of fun. We are now planning how we can take our scouts out to sea on our next adventure👍😀

@@2120edm … in true Swallows and Amazons style please!!! 😎

Great job. It’s lovely to see the old woodies getting back on the water. 459 is almost like a sister to 451. Haha

Wayfarers are a great boat. We have quite an active gang sailing about the Norfolk waterways. Check out Matt Sharman’s youtube channel. Matt is always out and about.👍

Thank you. May the adventures continue👍

The northern broads are great. Hickling is a good start and finish point to a trip. The winds are usually a bit more consistent than the Ant and much of the Bure and there is much less cruiser traffic in the summer. In a wayfarer you can get under the bridge at potter. So you can then head past thurne to acle and beyond. All of which is good sailing. You do really need a small outboard though. You can get short duration broads licences from the broads authority. The staff in the tolls office are always very nice, even if the Tolls are quite expensive these days.

Thank you. She is still sailing great👍

Thanks 👍

Wow. What a journey. We are making small steps. Might try Suffolk next. This is a big step for a Norfolk lad.

Ah lovely. Wanderers are great boats too. 👍

Thanks, it was a lot of fun. I certainly slept well when we got home

They even seemed to enjoy sleeping in the boat tents 😀

Thank you for the comment. Nearly a year on and she is still sailing wonderfully. We are all off to do a few days cruising in her soon.

Thank you. I am very glad to have put the time and effort in. She is a lovely boat to sail

Hey, that is a tricky question to answer. The biggest appeal of Sainte Foy used to be the offpiste. With everything being warmer it gets trickier and trickier to find good snow. I still go back to Sainte Foy every year though. Guessing offpiste isn't really your thing yet. I am a very impatient person and I hate queues (and people in general). Sainte Foy has always been much better than any other resort I've been to. In English half term week or French holidays there are queues, but nothing compared to bigger resorts. You can just learn when there will be queues and avoid them (first lift at 9am and 2pm eww). Less queueing = more skiing and fun. I also hate busy pistes. I am also a big guy and cranking out GS turns in the middle of a crowded piste isn't ideal. There are a mixture of pistes now. So there is something for everyone. If you like to cruise around and go long distances, then Sainte Foy is not for you. Personally I prefer 3-4 laps on a really nice piste to work on my turns and stuff. Some people will ski for 4-5 days in resort, then have a couple of days out to Val, Tignes or Rossiere. The high ratio of locals to tourists is definitely a good thing too

Cool, have a great trip. I have to wait a few more weeks until I get my yearly Sainte Foy fun

@@2120edm Was great and the weather was fab. It didnt snow but there was enough and as you know Sainte Foy bash all the slopes and use the cannons. Someone told us La Rosiere is just a few miles away and a great resort, you been there? Have fun when you get to SF.

@@boydsargeant7496 Amazing. Glad you had a good time. I'm off out in a few weeks. Rosiere is fun, we ski over to Italy for Pizza then try not to get lost on the way home ;)

Thanks! Enjoy!

Yea we are mostly from Norfolk. I like Mundesley for surfing. The waves are a bit more mellow than some of the other North Norfolk spots we have. My experience of Runton and Sea Palling is that the waves are steeper and the rides are shorter. Probably bit better for shortboarding, but for kayak surfing Mundesley delivers over and over. It has to be an offshore wind, or I just don't bother 4-5ft is my personal limit at Mundesley. If I do 4-5ft at Runton it's way too scary for me. It is also a little less dependent upon the tide. Low to mid tide is probably best.

Thank you 👍

Thank you for the kind words. She is lovely to sail. Hopefully all my repairs hold up…

Awhh. That sounds miserable. I can sympathise. On my last boat project I managed to router out my finger. I tried to keep going and nearly fainted which was even more dumb. The finger still feels weird several years later.

I'm a big bloke at 6'5 and 105kg. I'm not a very experienced surf kayaker but I have been playing about for years in the surf in a plastic full slice playboat. The Vulcan felt great immediately. It was fast, lively and just did everything you asked it too. There was plenty of space for me and I was pretty much ready to ask Chris to make one after 5 mins of paddling. It felt like an upgrade to the full slice I had been using. It handled the same, just better. I took the Fusion out as well. That was much much harder to paddle. Tippy, caught edges, really unstable to the point I had to do a constant sculling support stroke. I had one wave that I caught early and got a feel for the speed of the Fusion. What a buzz. I think I then caught an edge and got rolled. I could see the potential though, it was just a totally different league to my full slice. Driving home I didn't know which boat to buy. At some point the practicalities of surfing in Norfolk hit home. Its all beach breaks here and we get smaller crumbly waves. I asked a few friends who had surf boats and in the end settled on a Fusion. I think that was an excellent decision in hindsight. The Fusion has just given me really fabulous surf sessions on days when I would never have caught a wave before. 2-3ft days become great fun. She is quick to paddle out and you can get waves really early. I do also have a megatron now which I take out when the surf is steeper. The mega is great but the Fusion is so much faster. 90% of the time I take the Fusion. She is still tippy, but after a couple of years I now feel really comfortable in her. She is so fast and when the surf gets big she gets me out of trouble time and time again.