Giles' Kayak…...
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I don’t know what your experience is with kayaking, but you may want to take a few trips out and get use to it before you load it up.
When I first started sea kayaking, I practiced a lot of exits and getting back in my boat in fairly shallow water. It helped me learn tipping points and counter balancing techniques. I also found getting back into the boat more challenging than I assumed it would be. My first accidental flip over went reasonably well, because I had practiced beforehand.
I know your boat is a sit on which is different, but stability exercises could be helpful (especially when fishing).
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Thank you, Dennis. I will be staying within the confines of Portsmouth Harbour for the first few trips, so no open water stuff.
I kayaked a bit in a past life and leaned to roll and re-enter, so it's not entirely alien to me. But we do have a maxim in our house, if Giles could possibly fall over, he will - I blame it on only having 8 toes…..
Having said all that, the Hobie Outback is amazingly stable....
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I love google satellite pictures. You can see the channel that runs down the middle of the area, decent weed cover, and all of the wrecks in varying states of decay. Looks like a fishing paradise!
G, Are you going to use top water baits for the shallows or going to stick to the channel?
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The houses behind Johnny are these:
Built between the old blast walls of the munitions factory. Originally there was a wooden shed between each blast wall and in the sheds, shells were filled with explosives. If one went off, person filling shell plus shed were vapourised, but the walls protected the other sheds/shell-fillers
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