{"id":1406,"date":"2013-03-25T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phpaddlers.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2013-03-25T20:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:57:21","slug":"sunshine-surfing-the-aries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/sunshine-surfing-the-aries\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine & Surfing the Aries …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The surf \u00a0rolled in, with a 10 second interval, gentle offshore breeze and all under a beautiful sunny day. \u00a0Perfect. \u00a0What further made this a perfect day was that it was the middle of February at Rhosneigr, Anglesey, North Wales. \u00a0That day seems something of the distant past now, of another coast and land, as snow and Baltic type temperatures grip our coast. So lets return there just for a moment!<\/p>\n

I’d briefly paddled the Aries before and was keen to spend longer paddling one and seeing what I could do in it. \u00a0But I needed to get my hand’s on one. \u00a0Olly Saunder’s was away and he had an Aries, um maybe….? \u00a0With a quick text and a detour I had the loan of one, fantastic!<\/p>\n

After 5 hours of surfing what clearly stands out for me with the Aries is that it is very forgiving. \u00a0 This then has a knock on effect of building confidence. \u00a0Not once did I feel thrown by the kayak. Yes, I rolled a couple of times but this was more down to me, rather than the kayak, putting me in. \u00a0I felt I could trust the Aries and this allowed me to take bigger waves or more committing moves. \u00a0Being able to trust the Aires allowed me to experiment with moves. \u00a0I could hold an edge and turn with very little effort. \u00a0As I started to experiment more \u00a0with body trim, \u00a0pressure, dropping a shoulder and weight transfer to turn the Aries, the kayak responded dynamically. \u00a0It was solid, \u00a0yet responsive and was also a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

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The only problem I had, was at the end of the day I had to give it back!<\/p>\n

Roger<\/p>\n

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roger chandler<\/p>\n

www.coastalspirit.com<\/p>\n

Photos taken by Barry Shaw and thanks to Olly for the loan of the Aries!<\/p>\n

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