Category Archives: Deep Cove
Deep Cove Outdoors Kayak Repair Services – meet Marty!
For anyone who has been to Deep Cove Outdoors in the last 3 years, you’ll know that the building is one of two halves – one is the retail store and the other is our workshop. Initially fixed up by … Read More
Paddling Down Under
My trip to Australia wasn’t ever 100% about paddling, maybe not even 50%, but the paddling I’ve seen here on both the East and West Coasts have made me think that perhaps it should have been!! The first paddle I … Read More
Penguin Plunge Special – Meet our Sponsors and Plungers! Johnny Hayward, Cafe Orso
Deep Cove Kayak’s Penguin Plunge is now a longstanding Deep Cove tradition, and is now in its 35th Year! We will be gathering along with hundreds of Panorama Park on New Year’s day who are willing to throw themselves into … Read More
Fall Training – Week 7 – aka false starts will not be tolerated
Well, you could tell that the local ski hills are opening because our numbers were DOWN this week as a number of the surfski training group decided to hang out on frozen H2O instead of liquid. For those of us … Read More
Fall Training Week 6 – aka Getting Aggressive for Race Turns!
We have had such varied weather on this course it’s really shown all sides of Indian Arm and tested our paddling – this week it was pretty windy and so we had to contend with a decent amount of chop, … Read More
Fall Training Week 5 – aka Resistance is [NOT] futile!
A week off due to vacation for me meant that I was raring to get back to surfski training this Saturday, and we were treated to a dry session, quite incredible after all the rain in the last couple of … Read More
Fall Training Sessions – Week 3 (aka drills, drills, and more drills)
This week’s surfski training session was in two parts, for some of the group at least, as four of us headed to Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavilion bright and early on Saturday morning for the chance to star in our very … Read More
Fall Training Sessions – Week 2 (aka – this is wayyyy harder than last week)
So conditions for this week’s surfski training session were pretty much the opposite to those we endured last week – it was calm in the Cove and we even had some sunny breaks towards the end of the session. And … Read More
Fall Training Sessions – Week 1 (aka – never thought I’d be catching waves in Deep Cove!)
So this Saturday saw the first of the surfski training sessions that Wes Hammer is coaching in Deep Cove. And WHAT a way to start in the middle of a hurricane! Our group of 10 met first to discuss whether … Read More
Get excited about paddling in Fall!
So the long sunny days of summer have gone; even the sunny days that we have now have a real chill to them, not to mention the water is FREEZING, there’s a lot of rain in the forecast…all of … Read More