Outrigger First Practise

First of all I like to point out that we're having a similar view while paddling (just replace the boats with outrigger canoes). Amazing!!! The canoes take off just on the opposite site of downtown and since practise is at 6pm and it is almost winter we have an awesome view over downtown by night is when we're taking a break from paddling, since otherwise you have to pay attention to pace of the other paddlers, in order to match up your stroke.

So how was my first practise, as you may guess it was great. After we moved the boats to the water, I got a little introduction from two more experienced paddlers and then we left. I think we were about 3 canoes with 6 people each and then two coaches in two separate canoes. Oh did I mention that when we put the canoes to water that I had to step into the water and my shoes and the bottom of my pants were already super wet, but I did buy this fancy neoprene shoes, so it was all good. Oh and I did not freeze to death as I assumed, because it was quite windy today, but I was wearing a thermo long-sleeve and a fleece, at some points I was even quite hot. So we paddled for about an hour or a little longer in sometimes quite wavy water. At first I had problems matching my stroke to the one of the others but by the end I wasn't too bad :-) The coach even said I was doing quite good for a first time paddler :-) Well and after I got home I went straight to the hot tub, oh yeah...