Test Paddling and Practice

Article By Shorty


Paddling Practice At The Lake
This is our first trip to Tempe Town Lake, and 3 of the 4 paddlers could make it.



Lucky for us, there is a permanent set of bouys out in the lake that are almost just right for us to run around. The first time they went around, the boat zigged and zagged all over the place.

After a few trips around, they started getting better and I noticed that they have plenty of power, the only thing we really need to work on at this point is getting them to work together effectively.

Also the Arizona Yacht Club had their sunfish fleet out to race.

After a couple of more trips around the bouys, their time was still around 10 minutes to go out and come back. I pulled 2 of the girls out and had just one paddle by herself, and she did it in 4:10. Then the 2nd girl went, came in at 4:50, and the third girl went (who was the smallest) and she came in at 3:50 !!! So the first girl went again by herself and she made it back in 3:22.

That was really good to demonstrait to the girls how fast they could go, so we put 2 girls back in the boat and they made it back in 5:20.




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