Complete log · 4 sheets
Trip sheets
Everything we have written up, newest first. The earliest sheet still worth keeping is from 14 May 2023; the two seasons before that exist as text messages and a notebook that went in the water off the north quay.
DateEntryWindSeaWater
Sheet 04Three launches on this coast we keep returning to, and whyNotes on three ordinary slipways within an hour of the city: which wind direction ruins each one, where the parking actually is, and the landings we use when the plan falls apart.Launches · 4 parts · 18.2 km on the water · corrected 17 Aug 20268 m/sShort chop13 °C
Sheet 03What eleven Tuesday rescue evenings in the harbour taught usA winter of practising capsizes and recoveries in a sheltered harbour corner: which rescues held up when we were cold and tired, and the one we quietly stopped relying on.Practice · 5 parts · 23.4 km on the water · corrected 8 Sept 20258 m/sLight chop6 °C
Sheet 02The cold-water layers that earned their place in the March bagFive winters of working out what to wear over four degree water on the Swedish west coast, including the two expensive things we stopped using and the cheap one we will not paddle without.Clothing · 4 parts · 18.2 km on the water · corrected 26 Jan 20256 m/sRippled3 °C
Sheet 01Reading the gap between two islands before we commit to crossingHow this group judges an open crossing on the rock coast: wind against current in the sounds, fetch that nobody mentions at the car park, the turn-back rule, and an October crossing we got wrong.Judgement · 5 parts · 20.8 km on the water · corrected 9 Mar 20247 m/sRippled11 °C
Wind, sea state and water temperature are the figures we wrote on the sheet at the slipway, not a forecast copied afterwards, which is why some of them disagree with the day everybody remembers. Sheets get corrected rather than rewritten; the reasoning for that is set out in how trips get written up.