With the new lights fitted, it was time to try them out and see what the effective lighting was on the Thames.
We decided in advance that we would only be doing a small paddle and making it realistic to our timings for the DW, so headed off from Sheffield Bottom (Theale) with the car parked up at Shiplake.
We gave ourselves 20 minutes of ambient light to get into the paddling and then it was dark. Well as dark as it was ever going to get on the run through to Reading.
The lights work well on the tighter sections, and it was easy to see where the water turned, and the lock sections where lit up brilliantly. On the wider Thames sections, there wasn't really anything to see and we decided it is just a case of stay in the middle of the channel and keep paddling until you hit something.
No further changes required, and a gremlin put to bed.
Not long to go now.
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Big and Phil are two novice kayakers who have taken it up on themselves to do the DW in 2010. This 125 mile canoe race, takes place Easter Sat/Sun and is a non-stop race (hopefully). The top teams finish this in approx 17 hours. We're not one of those! We hope to finish, we hope to finish in a good time, but importantly we hope to have fun!
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