Gregs Page (Cominco)

Thanks for the welcome Greg. I am happy to have found this website and will visit more often. Cheers,

Dwayne

Thanks, I will!

Greg here for a change. Yes i did read the report on the Triak web site about the Sea of Cortez trip, They only averaged 15 nautical miles per day although on a number of days they were held up because of the weather so putting the average at 20.  I don,t know if this trip is a good advert for Triak. I see the latest and fastest trip around Vancouver Island has now been done by rowing which was a day faster than Joe O,brians trip his was the last fastest time.

Thank you for the welcome!

GREG are you expecting some early paddling, seeing the weather report to-day it looks like your spring is just round the corner,  but which corner, one in May i expect  but it,s getting closer.

GREG, well it,s still "chilly" but the winter is on it,s way down hill now with just a few bumps. I have been looking at the "new" Triak and they seem to have done all the things i found needed improving, it,s lighter than mine, weather thats a good thing i don,t know but it makes it easier to put it on top of a jeep, also the sail is removable and it furles easier plus the outriggers are larger. They have what they call a spinaker, very easy to deploy and stow in a contraption near the bow but to me it looks more like a jib.

Yes sounds like it , i think eventually it cost A Wainright 15 thousand pounds for the drinks he did say in one of his guides to the Lake District he would be cremated and his ashes spread at a hill called Haystacks in the Lakes  (the word district was always dropped) but when he died he was buried in KENDAL which is really on the edge of the district. His sketches were done by him taking photographs then making the sketches at home. The guide seems unusual in that it reads from the back to front for the walk. There is a big following of him and a A WAINRIGHT club, his guide books to the lakes is unique he wrote 7 plus a few more guides and books i think they were done in the 1950s and he said he would never revise them as that was an ongoing process. All his books are still available plus enlargments of his drawings.

Greg, yes the start of the pennine way is always considered to be Edale although that could be the end. The route or parts of it are closed from time to time because of "over" use. I have a guide by A Wainwright who wrote guides to all the peaks in the lake district and many walking routes to the top of each one, the books are now tucked away some place. There,s lot,s of "ways" now and i think after 40 years away from the Lake District many changes must have taken place. Oddly enough i never got to Scotland. Two weeks off per year from work was never enough. 

I suppose you started the pennine way at Edale in the peak district, an area which i know quite well, both the dark peak and a little further south the white peak but the peak district has no mountains, walking was one of the main outdoor activities over there, probably still is and some areas will be far too popular now everyone has cars, i didn,t walk any of the long distance path ways but i should have, it,s not too late for me but my wife couldn,t. The Triak has performed well but of course i didn,t use it enough, one of the problems with short summers and numerous boats, something i should correct next year while i still can. Although i have used numerous sails i always go back to the PA.