Charmian and I are about to embark on a Hawaiian adventure, with the aim of crossing the Kaiwi Channel on an OC1 as a relay team, and have some other great experiences along the way.
I thought this might be a good story to use as a starting point for this blog.
The journey so far
In about June last year after our time trial for the Macau DB Club Crew Championships Annett mentioned the prospect of joining her for the OC1 relay from Molokai to Oahu in Hawaii, held in May each year. It was an exciting idea, but I was tentative at first. I was still quite new to OC1 and there was a long way to go before I could even contemplate such a race.
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| Mandy and I celebrate finishing our first downwind paddle with Annett |
Over the next 6 months the PD Chicks really joined together to embrace OC1 paddling. We took up a couple of morning sessions each week and built up to doing a couple of 22km Pacifica races along the Northern Beaches of Sydney and the OC1 State Titles in Wollongong during November, followed by the 25km OC1 Nationals held at Coffs Harbour in December. (You can read about Mandy and my first experience of a downwind paddle here on the Pacific Dragons website).
After a Christmas break hiking in NZ it was back to paddling, and whilst there haven’t been any further OC1 races we’ve continued to build our OC1 skills and endurance.
Into the mix over the past month we’ve thrown in a very successful DB State Titles at Penrith, OC6 State Titles in Cronulla, DB Nationals in Canberra and a 26km downwind paddle from Watson’s Bay to La Perouse. It’s been a busy few months!
As it turns out, it will be Charmian joining me as my paddling partner, rather than Annett, and with exactly 1 week until we leave, we’re both brimming with excitement and anticipation.
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