First 2008 "Winter" Paddle Oct 4th

Today BCKC started the winter masters paddling season on an overcast but quite warm day. Even Coach Lynn was out in short sleeves. The gang is supposed to meet every Saturday at 9:30 to go for a 45min-1hr run followed by a steady paddle (8-16km). Lynn will be coaching technique every 1st and 3rd Saturday.
Some new paddlers join us today. These guys are not new to paddling but race surfski during the summer. Being beat by Jeff all season long convinced them to come out and work on their technique over the winter - hence joining BCKC.
This week only Katja and Jeff showed up for the run. Dave, Chris & Gary as well as new members Sean, Rene & Curtis joined as at 11am for a paddle. Hugh showed up later as well. Lynn was out in the coachboat. A bit of an easterly headwind made us work our way up the lake but was welcome on the way back.

Sean is getting ready in the Swift, while Rene already braves the Super Lancer for his first sprint boat practice. Paddling a speedster before sure has helped him to develop pretty good balance.

Lynn is giving instructions to the newbies while Gary and Chris watch and hope one of them would fall in - nobody did :-)
Curtis very confident in a Laser.

Gary, Sean, Chris, Curtis and Rene on their way in to the dock.