Had my surfski repaired after a disastrous attempt at taking on the Peninsula Marathon. Withdrew from day 1 of the Peninsula after discovering that my home-made effort of bending my rudder back into shape did not work out so well. I struggled to make 10km/hr in flat conditions and was dead last, then got milked in the surf and my boat started taking water. My ski was in bad shape. I had rammed my rudder on two occasions, both times I had forgotten that I had a near 7m rocket on the roof of my car. The ski also had cracks from the horrifying experience of the mother of all waves taking me out at the last Knysna Sedgefield race.
Well I'm back now, new rudder, new cables and perhaps even an improved engine. I'm taking Creatine now to see if it will help give me more power when sprinting to catch runs. Today won't be a paddling day as I had my bachelors last night, what I day and night! We played paintball during the day and I took a beating of note in the last game when the-bachelor-never-dies rule was introduced, meaning that I could get machine gunned after being hit (normally you only get shot once then a team mate tags you back into the game). It didn't help my cause when I ran away in a straight line after being caught in a bad spot, my back now has a couple a welts on it thanks to that bad move. The night got wild, an experience I'll never forget, it's incredible what you can get away with in public as the bachelor. The lads tasked me with all kinds of potentially embarrassing requests to the public and all gladly participated.
Well hopefully I'll have a double ski in a couple of months, I spend a lot of time on the water and want to take my fiancée out with me on weekends. It wont be a fast ski, probably a Bayrunner (made by Brian's Kayaks) which looks more like a sea kayak. Can't wait to get it, plan to get into the kelp and then do some snorkeling using the Bayrunner, then go into secluded spots and braai whatever I've taken out.
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