THE MAGAZINE OF THE NSW SEA KAYAK CLUB ISSUE 106 | NOVEMBER 2017 SAILING | Rules of the Sea | WHALES | Humble Pie | CAPRICORNIA | Crete 2 This page: Fernando at Blue Fish Point, Manly (Image - Bill Raffle) Front cover: “Where did it go?” Nick Blacklock at Gerrin Point, near Maitland CONTENTS Bay (Image - Caoimhin Ardren) From the President’s Deck 3 Rock ‘n’ Roll 2018 4 NSW Sea Kayak Club Inc. From the Editor’s Desk 5 PO BOX R1302, ROYAL EXCHANGE NSW 1225 Training and Technical The NSWSKC is a voluntary organisation run by members who give their time The Journey to Sea Skills 6 freely to the club. Membership is offered yearly. Please see the website for details and application. www.nswseakayaker.asn.au Navigation Training Weekend 8 PRESIDENT: TRIPS CONVENOR: Rules of the Sea 10 Tony Murphy Selim Tezcan Hamstrings and Kayaking 16 [email protected] [email protected] Free as the Breeze 18 VICE PRESIDENT: ROCK ’N ROLL COORDINATOR: Feature Neil Duffy Simon Swifte [email protected] [email protected] Thingy in the Water 22 The Coast Boast 23 SECRETARY/TREASURER: INTERNET COORDINATOR: Paul Thomas Vacant Kayaking vs Boating 26 [email protected] [email protected] Krill Oil - Whale Attractant 27 TRAINING COORDINATOR: EDITOR: Hawkesbury Canoe Classic 28 Megan Pryke Ruby Ardren [email protected] [email protected] Club Trips Contributions yes please! Salt the magazine of the NSW Sea Kayak Club is published three to four times a Broughton Birthday 33 year by the NSW Sea Kayak Club. The NSWSKC welcomes articles relating to sea kayaking for inclusion in the Club’s magazine and website. Publication in the magazine and/or website is at the sole discretion Private Trips of the editor. All articles submitted are subject to review by the editor who reserves the right to reject or Sea Kayakers Get Fresh 36 edit material. Please email contributions as Microsoft Word or text files. Images need to be supplied at the highest possible resolution. All material is copyright. The contributor retains underlying intellectual property A Large Slice of Humble Pie 38 rights in the contribution however the contributor grants the club a global perpetual all-media license to publish the contribution in club communications, including in print and digitally. Reproduction in whole or North by Nadgee II 40 part is strictly forbidden without written permission from the editor, author or photographer. Advertisers must adhere to legal requirements and undertake to indemnify NSWSKC against any consequences Going Boldy in Capricornia 42 arising out of their advertisements. For further information contact the editor. Watching Whales 48 All views expressed in this magazine are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the The Dolce Vita 49 NSWSKC. IMPORTANT: Please review the Paddler Safety, Required Equipment, Grading System and Club Calendar South West Crete 50 sections of the club website. NOVEMBER 2017 | SALT 3 From the President’s Deck 2018 Membership Year is Open TONY MURPHY If you have a friend interested in sea kayaking, now is a good time to talk to them about joining our club as new members joining from today are entitled to 2018 membership and can participate in club November and December The president’s chair has gone a 2017 events. little cold since Megan left it in July, You Can Renew in Advance but I will be keeping it warm for now. To participate in 2018 club events, The committee is authorised to you will need to have renewed your make appointments to vacant membership. Why wait until we committee roles. Neil Duffy Speaking of Rock ‘n’ Roll - we have remind you again if you can renew volunteered to join the committee, a date. And a location! We’ve set today? but not to take on the President’s a placeholder for Friday April 6 to role. So, at the last committee Sunday April 8 2018 at Currarong. Membership fees are the same meeting: Registration will open early in 2018, as the last few years, single $85, after membership renewals in additional family $45.00 and - I resigned from the Vice November / December. discounted (see below) $42.50. President’s role, leaving it vacant And so to grades. Rummaging Please note that if you hold an - The committee appointed Neil to in the club membership records I the vacant role of Vice President Additional Family membership, the see 70 people ungraded and 36 at primary member needs to renew - The committee appointed me to Grade 1. I think a fair few of these before you do. Each member needs the vacant role of President. are just people whose records aren’t to be renewed under their login. up to date. To see what the club The committee has nominated three records say, log into the website Discounted Membership priorities for this committee year and go down to the bottom left (and I’m trying to get a fourth on the A separate email has been sent to and click on Your Profile then Your books). members deemed eligible to apply Details. If you’ve got your Grade for discounted membership and 1. The bread and butter of the club: 1 or Grade 2 signed off but it’s not who have not previously applied. shown, then just take a photo of the trips, training and Rock ‘n’ Roll. If you have not received this email sign-off page in your logbook and 2. Developing a new website with and think you should have you may email it to our new VP Neil Duffy a commercial provider now that follow the discounted membership [email protected]. Stephan has moved on after six process. years as our Internet Coordinator If you haven’t yet had your Grade 1 Half Price Membership is offered on (add to that a year as trips signed off, then pick a paddle that’s the Single Membership Price (i.e. coordinator, a year as training open to Grade 1s, and email the $42.50) and those members entitled coordinator, and a few R’n’Rs). trip leader and ask them to sign you to this discounted membership off and/or ask Neil to organise a 3. Assisting any Flatwater Guides Welcome to the Club paddle. are required to select one of and Instructors who’d like to the three reasons listed below upgrade to the new Enclosed Sea If you’ve got most of your Grade 2 when renewing or purchasing a Instructor qualification. sign-offs but just need one or two discounted membership: more, then ask a leader on your 4. Getting as many people as • Members with over 10 years next club paddle, or email me and possible to grade 1 and then to continuous membership I might put up a sign-off trip. And if grade 2 (my pet topic – more you haven’t been to a Basic Skills • Trip leaders who lead five trips or below). course then I really encourage more a year If you look at this list and think you to do one. Maybe email our • Current committee members. we’ve missed something critical Training Coordinator Megan Pryke Life members are not required to please drop me a line: ([email protected]) pay a fee. [email protected]. and express your interest. NSW SEA KAYAK CLUB | NOVEMBER 2017 4 Rock ‘n’ Roll 2018 We have a date. And a location! Registration for Rock’n’Roll will be manage the registration, run the The club’s next Rock ‘n’ Roll will open in early January 2018 on the beach marshalling, cook the BBQ, be held at Currarong Beach Friday Club’s web site etc. A few volunteer positions have 6 – Monday 9 April, 2018. It will (www.nswseakayaker.asn.au). already been filled but we still need be based at Currarong Beachside Please note that you need to be a a lot more. If you are interested in Holiday Park (Phone: 1300 555 515), financial member of the club when helping with these tasks, please which offers a variety of powered you register for Rock ’n’ Roll. contact the R’n’R Coordinator at and unpowered camping sites, [email protected]. This event is run by volunteers cabins and studios. Currarong who give their time to organise, Beachside Holiday Park will give NSWSKC members a 20 percent discount for phone bookings. The Holiday Park is located on the beach at Currarong, giving easy access to paddling in the open sea from the adjacent river at higher tides or from the sheltered bay in front of the Park. There are also numerous paddling locations around Jervis Bay just a short drive away. This is the club’s premier annual event providing an opportunity for new members to come and The schedule of events will be similar to previous years: meet others in the club and for old Fri AM Informal trips (no organised trips or training) members to catch up. There will be a variety of training sessions for Fri Evening Arrival and registration; welcome and light dinner supplied paddlers to learn new, or improve by Expedition Kayaks existing skills as well as a raft of Sat AM Registration, briefing, trips or training sessions trips to various destinations around Sat PM BBQ and off water training sessions the area. Sat Evening Dinner and speaker A “Gear for Sale” area will be set Sun AM Briefing, trips or training sessions up near the main marquee for Sun PM Off water training sessions those members that have surplus kayaking equipment they may wish Sun Evening Pogies Awards (paddlers showing videos of their trips) to sell.