After a week of feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve, my new (to me) Dagger Nomad has arrived.

Got the air bags in, swimtail knotted, name scribbled inside and the obligatory stickers on the back deck; good to go!

Well, almost. A bit of outffiting and footplate/thigh brace customisation required first.

Good page on Nomad outfitting here: http://www.teamdagger.com/profiles/blogs/outfitting-your-dagger-kayak

And here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4C2GUaFYOI

Well, as they say, out with the old and in with the new…

I felt it was time for a wee redesign of the KayakScotland.net website, and here it is…a few sections still need to be tidied up, but a lot of functions are working more efficiently and you can even post an article to your Facebook page (or other social networking page) at the click of a button!

If you’ve got any suggestions for minor tweaking, or you come across something that doesn’t work as it should, please just let me know.

Quick scoot down the Lower Findhorn today, with Torq and Mike.

Fairly low levels, but with the leaves turning it was a lovely paddle and good use of a valuable Saturday afternoon!

Not much to write home about, other than me running Corkscrew river-right for the first time and Mike trying to follow suit, but ending up bouncing over the centre roostertail!

Good times…apart from Scotland losing to England in the rugby, which was bad times…