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Written by Rob Mousley
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Monday, 06 February 2006 |
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(By Rob Mousley)  In my first conversation with Mark Lewin in 2003, he told me that I should be banned from paddling…
The 2003 Cape Point Challenge Qualifier was held in a fierce southeaster and I had joined the race at Millers Point to do a downwind run. On my own, I had counted on the race’s safety organisation to help me out if I got into trouble. As Mark later put it, how would I have felt if the rescue crews had had to leave a competitor to drown while rescuing me?
But he didn’t put it like that to begin with – he calls a spade a spade and his initial bluntness took me aback. It was quite an introduction to one of the most visible (at 6’10’’ tall) characters in South African Surfski.
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Written by Rob Mousley
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Wednesday, 25 January 2006 |
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(by Rob Mousley)
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The Garmin Forerunner series of GPS units proved an instant hit with paddlers when they were released a year ago. Garmin has just released the next generation of units in the form of the 205/305 series.
I was fortunate enough to lay my hands on a Forerunner 305 for a weekend. In what I'm told is the first independent public review worldwide of the Forerunner 305, here’s what I found…
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Written by Rob Mousley
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Thursday, 12 January 2006 |
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(by Rob Mousley)
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I love my parents in law (really!) but the thought of spending my Christmas vacation with them was daunting. Why? They live in East London, 1100km from my home in Cape Town... and, having logged many, many hours training for the 2005 Cape Point Challenge I had agreed to play family man and leave my ski behind. Ten days with no paddling...? It couldn't be done. A cunning plan occured to me however - the Fenn Kayaks factory is also located in East London. Could it possibly be that Keith Fenn might agree to lend me a ski so that I could write a review for surfski.info? |
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Written by Rob Mousley
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Thursday, 12 January 2006 |
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(By Dale Lippstreu) Rumours have been circulating in the surfski paddling community for some time that Epic Kayaks was shutting down its operations in SA and moving production to another country.  | | Oscar Chalupsky paddling the V10 in Hawaii | As an interested party (V10 owner) I thought I would approach Oscar Chalupsky and get the information first hand. Oscar was as communicative as ever and this is what I learned. |
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Written by Rob Mousley
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Wednesday, 11 January 2006 |
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(by Rob Mousley)
For some while rumours have been flying about Epic Kayaks, specifically that they were stopping the manufacture of the V10 Surf Ski in South Africa. Speculation has been rife on the reasons for this and future of V10 surf ski. The V10 has made a huge impact in the short time that it has been in production. | | Oscar Chalupsky paddling the V10 in Hawaii |
I was fortunate enough to meet up with Oscar Chalupsky, Epic's Sales Vice President (and paddling legend) in Cape Town recently and here's what he had to say...
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