The Club is looking to enhance the quality of the equipment offered to Club members. The understanding is that better, more modern equipment brings about more efficient technique as the equipment will be lighter, and so allowing the particpants to have effortlessly more fun.
Description
The Club would like to be able to offer lighter paddles with a flexible feathering system. Very simply, paddle feathering is when you adjust the two blades of your paddle so one of them is at a different angle than the other. Some people like to have the two blades at the same angle resulting in no twisting of the wrists. Others like to feather the blades so erducing wind resistence as you push the blade through the air, but requires wrist rotation. The paddles the Club are looking to purchase can be feathered at any angle (from )-90) so the paddler can find any position that is comfortable (including left/right handed). This is especially important to those with current wrist injuries, want to go on long journeys, or hope to paddle regularly for many years.
6 x Ainsworth Paddles Sea polycarbonate blade with glass shaft option £115 each.
The Club wants to also invest in four new buoyancy aids. Two for adults and two for youths/children. Buoyancy aids do deteriorate over time so a number of the ones in the Club store are due now for retirement. Modern buoyancy aids are more streamline and less bulky, and have places for a radio to be attached to and a pocket for a safety whistle and safety knife to be stored.
2 x Yak Buoyancy Aids adult £81 each
2 x Yak Buoyancy Aids youth £68 each
Members use Club kit every Thursday evenings during the summer months, and in weekly pool session during the winter. Members are also able to borrow Club kit for supporting local water events eg the Holy Isle race and the Lamlash Splash.
Location: Arran Kayak Club - this is a small not-for-profit kayak club open to everyone of all ages whilst removing some financial constraints making the sport more initially attainable.
Good luck with the funding!