British Surf Kayak Championships - Wales

The British Surf Kayak Championships took place recently after a lot of hard work from Team Wales.

Llangenith, Gower, South Wales was the venue for the champs this year, and with the increasing numbers in surf kayaking at the moment, it was no surprise that we had over 40 entries.

The surf was great and the weather played ball so everybody had a great time. The surf kayak awards were a new addition to the champs this year, with prizes going to a selection of categories:
Media Hog
Most consistent competitive surf kayaker
Biggest contribution to the sport
Best surf kayak shot of 2009
Hottest newcomer
Most improved surf kayaker
Biggest wipeout.

The surf kayak awards had a strict dress code of black ties and ball dresses, which for a load of trainer wearing hoodied surf kayakers, turned out to be pretty entertaining.

The finals went down on Sunday and new British Champions were crowned. With a fantastic range of prices from NOOKIE, all finalists went home with new gear, and Junior British Champion, Jordan Thomas, left with a £100 Nookie Voucher!!

A massive thanks therefore must go to Nookie for supporting the event!!

Nathan 'Yellowboy' Eades
Nookie Team Rider

Full results are on kayaksurf.net

The Dartcam is back with Nookie!

The River Dart (Devon, UK) Webcam is now back in action with Nookie! Now all you have to do each day is visit www.nookie.co.uk/dartcam to know exactly what the level is at.

Updated every 30 minutes with a still shot, the new gauge will display ft and also markers correlating to features on the river such as the well known 'slab'.

For any technical queries about the webcam please email: ben@riverdart.co.uk

Oetz Valley

After a hard week of work at Kanumesse, Steve (Sales Manager) and Hazel (Designer) took a (rather large) detour on the way home to hit the Oetz Valley in Austria for a bit of 'product testing'. The water was low-ish, but the weather and the location were stunning.

Jochen Lettmann in the Nookie Assassin Drysuit - Middle Oetz

Steve testing the Lettmann Granate - Middle Oetz

Two days of paddling a variety of rivers in the area with Jochen (from Lettmann Kayaks) meant we both had the chance to be the first British paddlers to test the excellent new composite creek boat, the Lettmann Granate.