Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Demo organised and done in 6 days!

Last nights demo was a bit of a rush job, pieced together in 6 days once we'd confirmed availability of Ian Ferguson and the delivery of skis for the 8 hour plus drive down from Auckland that day. Thanks to Fergs Kayaks team in both Auckland and Wellington, especially Alan Ferguson (Auck) and Dave Annear (Wgtn) and all staff for loading and unloading all the skis and of course Ian for the drive down (and also back) and for also leading the demo session.

A big thanks also to the Kupe Canoe Club for publicising the night well on the clubs website and also around to their members at short notice and to Sharlene who took does all our website stuff, flyer design, photos and all the technical work required to fit everything together.

The number of people trying out the skis was very pleasing and especially the many comments that people didn't realise how stable they were.

Apologies that the full range of Legend Paddles weren't available for the demo (caught up in transit), though they will be available at Fergs Kayaks in Wellington for the next 2 weeks, so pop in and ask the staff there about trying them out.

A Think Uno (carbon 14kg) is here for demo for the next 6 weeks, Chester will be paddling it at the NZ Marathon Kayak Champs on April 14, the event is again being hosted by the Mana Kayak Racing Club. The ski also for sale so if it sells before then I'll paddle the Evo II.

Thank you everyone, for the support you've all given to tonights event.

For the results of the racing http://www.kupe.org.nz/ for photos view the slideshow on the right hand side of the Welly Paddlers webpage. 

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