Had a lesson with Paul Ralph at Marsports today, top bloke, knows his stuff, has a canoe machine in the shop where we can sit in front of a mirror and see where we were going wrong, my technique was way off. Spent 20 minutes getting this sorted, then headed out on the river to practice portages and putting the new technique into practice. At the end of the lesson went up through the Oracle turned round then came back down, so much better, more efficient, more relaxed, better on the portages, superb lesson.

Unfortunately this is possibly the last outing on the boat today for a week or so as we need to upgrade the seats.