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    Go With Noakes End Tune????

    I know that many of the members here will have no idea who John Noakes was, however I'm hoping that some of the older folk might be able to help me with finding the title of the end tune from his "Go With Noakes" series of truly excellent and inspiring programs back in the 80's. The opening...
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    SanDisk for GoPro Hero7 Black?

    Can anyone tell me definitively whether I can use a 128GB micro SD card in the Hero 7 Black please? , indeed, what the maximum I can fit? I bought a 64GB card with the camera and in 30fps I only get two and a half hours of storage! okay if your just messing about but I'm wanting to record some...
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    Day Out Visiting Relatives & Getting In A Paddle on Loch Fyne

    Visiting relatives who recently moved to live right on the shores of Loch Fyne, I took along my Gumotex Solar 410 Pro and got in some paddling! More to follow eventually.
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    Day Out 1st paddling trip this year

    I haven't paddled for about a year, concentrating exclusively on cardiac rehab on my bike, so with 5000 miles in the saddle since April 2017, I decided it was time I got back on the water. First off; I checked out both my boats in the garden. They were, as expected, both still like new. I...
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    Used Gumotex Inflatables at Excellent prices!

    Was put onto this by a post over on song of the paddle,http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/54481-Gumotex-Boatpark no connection at all with the company but at these prices and the testimony of the poster on sotp I really wish I'd known about this company a lot sooner!:rolleyes...
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    Glenridding Paddle Tuesday?

    I'm going back over to Glenridding (Ullswater in the lake district) on Tuesday (seems like the best day this week) if anyone fancies a look and a meet up. Bit of paddling, bit of chatter, maybe share a few skills/ideas etc? I'll be heading for the steamer car park at Glenridding and intend to...
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    slicing up birch polypore

    I was out and about the other day, just walking in the local woodland with the other half/mrs/swmbo/wife/etc etc and I spotted some nice fresh polypore on a dead birch at a very accessible height so decided that I'd collect a few next time I was down there. I took a plastic carrier bag and made...
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    Any Gumotex Solar 410 C owners on here?

    I'm looking at adding to the fleet, well okay, forming a fleet (of two boats) and I'm considering the Gumotex Solar 410C to compliment my Palava. I fancy something a bit quicker to paddle but still offering the same load space and the solar 410 fits that criteria. Anyone on here own one? Any...
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    John Ridgway TV series or Documentary?

    I'm trying to find a TV series or documentary that featured a group of yuppie types playing at survival up in Scotland based around John Ridgway's adventure school up at Ardmore. I believe from the 80's? Can anyone recall this series/documentary? It wasn't "castaway 2000" or whatever that was...
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    Last years "Palava"

    Just a slide show I chucked together with some of my photo's from last years outings with the new boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-yz1Q3TxAU I'm still building strength and confidence after my heart attack in October but I'm hoping to get back on the water in April:27: Any questions...
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    Some stuff from a while back

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    Proper Hard Work

    But I suspect profitable? I recorded this character at extreme range (about half a mile away) last year as I walked off South Shields pier, after a charva dodging session, (aka mackerel fishing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1YL9z18Ac There's usually two of them in the small boat featured...
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    Gumotex Palava Inflatable Canoe (Not a Kayak!) Rannoch to Dunkeld

    One of the better Gumotex Palava videos on youtube. (well at least its in the UK!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZDW_sosPjI enjoy
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    "Frontier" On Netflix

    Supposedly about the "bloody battle for control of the wealth created by the Hudsons Bay Companys monopoly of the fur trade" set in the late 1700's. Ray Mears never said nowt about a bloody battle for control etc, it was all jolly voyageurs, singing, paddling along,eating crxppy scones, being...
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    The Power Of Heavy Snow Fall

    Just thought I'd post up a link to the latest upload to a truck restoration channel I often peruse on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p2H0ulsXl6w I've seen similar branch stripping and collapsed roofs before but I don't think most folk realise the sort of damage thick accumulations of...
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    Myocardial Infarction?

    Anyone on here who has had a major heart attack (major as in blue lights,emergency procedures,out of the blue etc) who continues to spend their leisure time in remote locations or paddling, hill walking etc?
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    MTP NI Patrol Pack or similar size wanted.

    As the title, I'm looking for a good quality, ideally issue, patrol pack. Size around 40 litres, mtp, with genuine nexus hardwear. I really don't want highlander,webtex or any similar rubbish. Any ideas please? Cheers Steve
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    Camping Gaz V Calor? NO CONTEST!

    Anyone care to try to explain why it costs £30-£40 to buy 2.5kg of camping gaz in a 907 cylinder, while it only costs £16.80 ish for 4.5kg of butane (exact same gas) from Calor?:confused: The "new" (new as in:- a bottle that's been used 30-40 times at least already) start up costs are...
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    Scottish (West/North Western) coastal campsites?

    I'm looking for a decent, quiet campsite up in west/north western Scotland somewhere. It has to be right on the coast or on a sea loch and have easy access to the water. I don't want to be slumming it but don't want holiday camp "facilities" either. So no "entertainment" but clean toilets...
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    Bargain Gumotex Helios 2 Inflatable Kayak on SOTP

    It's not mine and I've no connection with the seller etc but I did very nearly buy this myself;) THIS IS NOW LONG GONE-SOLD This boat gets very good reviews and is much better quality than the likes of sevylor or the cheap rubbish peddled in costco etc...