Opening Hours November, December

Hi everyone. I thought I would put a quick post up to let you know our opening hours over the next couple of Months. We want to make sure we are here for you to order and pick up your Christmas Presents. So here goes.

We will be open late till 8pm on the 6 Thursdays run up to Christmas.

Thursday 12th Nov
Thursday 19th Nov
Thursday 26th Nov
Thursday 3rd Dec
Thursday 10th Dec
Thursday 17th Dec

We will be Open as usual the rest of the week and Closed on Sundays. Usual Opening Hours are 9.30am till 5.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. We are normally around until 6pm on the usual days so if your running late but still want to catch us then give us a call.

Over Christmas our hours will be:-

Mon 21st Dec - Open as usual
Tues 22nd Dec - Open as usual
Weds 23rd Dec - Open as usual
Thurs 24th - CLOSED
Friday 25th - CLOSED
Saturday 26th - CLOSED
Sunday 27th - CLOSED
Monday 28th - Open 9.30am to 5pm
Tuesday 29th - Open 9.30am to 5pm
Wednesday 30th - Open 9.30am to 5pm
Thursday 31st - CLOSED
Friday 1st Jan - CLOSED
Saturday 2nd - Open as usual

So now you know when we will be in, so why not pop in and say hello. Remember we do gift vouchers, ideal christmas present for those paddlers you don't know what to get.

We are still busy with mail order. We are using Parcelforce 48 where possible and have been having no major problems during the Postal Strikes.

Cam got a chance to get out on the water on Wednesday this week and had a great paddle on Loch Tay. Awesome Autumn colours on Drummond Hill and even better the Loch was Mirror Flat. See you on the water.A couple of Pics from Loch Tay

STUDENT NIGHT

Wednesday October 14th 5pm - 8pm

We are having a STUDENT EVENING. So dust off your student cards and make sure your grants are in the bank and come and see us on the evening of the 14th of October. We will be staying open late till 8pm and will have some special offers on for all you students. So bring your student cards and friends along to the best deal night of the year.!!!!!!!!!!! If you bring along some beer and pizza you might even get a better deal........................ ;)
So steal the UNI mini bus pile in a bunch of cars and get along to the Shop for the best discount night.


Hope to see you there.

New Shop layout

We have been working hard this last month. The manager Cam has become a dad. On the 20th of August Elizabeth Skye was born.

The shop has been getting more work done by Alltec

We have had a small office built and a whole wall of Slatwall put up. Giving us loads of display area for all the new product we are getting in.

We will be open for the Saturday and the Sunday of Paddle 09 being held again in the Bells Sports Centre in Perth on the 24th 25th of October.

October and November will see some more special offers from us. We are offering 15% off Whitewater Kayaks. There are some conditions so please phone the shop for full details.


Before the SCA Show, where our very own Paul Chapman will be doing a presentation, we are having a STUDENT EVENING. So dust off your student cards and make sure your grants are in the bank and come and see us on the evening of the 14th of October. We will be staying open late till 8pm and will have some special offers on for all you students.

Hope to see you all soon.

Fluid Ex Demo Boats for Sale

We are selling off our Ex Demo Fluid Boats.

All models are available and some of the popular models we have 2 to sell. Click here on our website for details. Save yourself at least 25% on retail and get yourself on the river this Autumn. Phone us for details. We have L and M Spice, L Solo and L Nemesis in Perth but we can get any other models up for you to have a look at.

River Ness Marathon

Ness Kayak and Canoe Marathon – Sunday 2^nd August 2009

Nairn Man Peter Ralph of Nairn Kayak Club and Inverness Canoe Club placed fifth overall in the 2009 Ness kayak marathon and placed second in the long course Wavehopper K1 class with a time of 1:49 and 44 seconds. A hard fought race up the Caledonian Canal against a strong wind was only slightly made up on the way down the River Ness due to its very low levels on the day. The overall winner was Mark Bragg of Integrate Paddling Aberdeen , setting a new long course record of 1:21 and 27 seconds coming in ten minutes ahead of all other paddlers, bringing 2 minutes off the previous record. Long course Canadian C2 event was won by Royal CC paddlers from London James Irvine and Shao Tan with a time of 2:27 and 31 seconds.

Short course winners were Paul Cornet of Inverness CC with a time of 1:28 and 40 seconds, just 9 seconds ahead of his nearest rival in the male K1 event and Inverness CC paddler Suzy Beaumont won the female K1 class with a time of 1:28 and 45 seconds. The short course Canadian C2 winners were Andrew Brownlow and Hamet Auty with a time of 1:10 and 30 seconds.

The event was generously sponsored jointly by H20 Outdoors and Brookbank Canoes Perth, Our thanks go to Cam and the team at Brookbank canoes for the assistance in making this a successful event.

Steve Mackinnon

Ness Kayak and Canoe Marathon organiser

Ness Marathon 2009 Race results

Long Course

Long course K1 Male
Place	Name	Time	Club	Boat	Class
1	Mark Bragg	1:21:27	Integrate Paddling	Marathon K1	Vetran
2	Derek Marshall	1:31:10	Linlithgow KR	Marathon K1	Vetran
3	James Fairley	1:33:27	NESKY	Marathon K1	Vetran
4	Colin McMorrin	1:35:05	KCC	Wavehopper	Senior
5	Peter Ralph	1:49:44	Inverness CC	Wavehopper	Vetran
6	Laurence Phin	1:49:49	Inverness CC	Wavehopper	Vetran
7	Greg Manning	1:50:50	Integrate Paddling	Touring K1	Vetran
8	Gordon McKenna	3:03:23	Inverness CC	Touring K1	Vetran
9	Paul Clayton	3:03:23	Inverness CC	Touring K1	Vetran

Long course K2
Place	Name	Time	Club	Boat	Class
1	Simon Kay / John Kavenagh	1:50:20	Macclesfield	Racing K2	Vetran
2	Gordon Milne / Debra Storr	1:51:05	NESKY	Sea K2	Vetran

Long course Open Canadian C2
Place	Name	Time	Club	Boat	Class
1	James Irving / Shao Tan	2:27:31	Royal CC	Open Canadian	Senior
2	Dave Preece / Ann Marie Markle	2:28:25		Open Canadian	Senior

Upper Tummel & New Products

Last week Fozz told us he wanted to go run the Upper Tummel. We knew it was releasing on Thursday night so we told a few folks we would be heading that way after work. We ended up with 19 people on the river.

Fozz Running Maclaren Falls. These are visible from the road on the River Left Hand Bank.

Craigy Wilson running the Falls.

Thanks to AD for the Photos. It was evening so they are a little dark but you get the idea. I could list everyone that was there but that would take ages. You know who you are. Thanks it was alot of fun.

WAVE SPORT

We have had the new D65 and D75 in from Wavesport. These boats are the same shape as the old model with a whole new outfitting and made in the UK to Boot. The finish on them looks great and the outfitting wel thought out. At £599.00 the hold great value for money. Loyalty Card Package deal available on this boat too.

D65 Pride of Place in the Shop (The first D75 we have had in has already sold)

SWEET
We have the new Sweet Wanderer Helmet in stock now too. In Black, Red or Gloss White.

BIG DOG KAYAKS
Big Dog Kayaks. The new kids on the block have been slowly getting their new models to us. We have had the Kaos in and we have a demo available. A great playboat with to outfitting options.
The other models in the range are set to be with us late summer early autumn.

The North Esk

Gavin

We got a chance to get out on the North Esk yesterday with a good crowd. Gavin, Alec, AD, John, Scott, Fozz and Cam

Gavin

The River was fairly low but the sun was out so we all had fun. I paddled the Dagger Green with some interesting lines..... : )

Alec

AD

All the Boys in the Sun

AD at the bottom of Triple Steps.

No really it is Scotland!!!

Fozz showing all the short boaters how it should be done in his Nomad.

John running Triple Step.

The Green at the bottom of Triple Step.