Anyone who visits our home page at SeaKayakWales will see that we have announced our launch date – the 25th March.
“What happened to the service in 2012?” you might ask. Well by the time we had everything tied down and running well enough to invite some initial testers to give it a try the days were shortening – sometimes to the point where if the tides did not co-operate there were precious few paddling trips we could suggest. Rather than disappoint, we decided to put off the public launch until more paddlers were likely to be looking for trip suggestions and when the days were longer – giving our service more suggestions to make.
One positive aspect of this is that we have also been able to add a facility to support relative sea kayaking beginners by suggestion great paddling venues where they can develop their skills in relatively sheltered and secure surroundings. Just as with the main trip plan suggestion service, winds and tides are taken into account to ensure that we can provide full details on times as well as places. Plus we can eliminate some venues when conditions are likely to be adverse.
We have also been working to extend the capabilities of the service to provide support for paddling areas beyond our initial launch focus on Anglesey. These will come on stream as quickly as possible and with the help of the community will allow the site to grow quickly to make SKW the default answer to the question “Where shall we go paddling tomorrow?”.
“What happened to the service in 2012?” you might ask. Well by the time we had everything tied down and running well enough to invite some initial testers to give it a try the days were shortening – sometimes to the point where if the tides did not co-operate there were precious few paddling trips we could suggest. Rather than disappoint, we decided to put off the public launch until more paddlers were likely to be looking for trip suggestions and when the days were longer – giving our service more suggestions to make.
One positive aspect of this is that we have also been able to add a facility to support relative sea kayaking beginners by suggestion great paddling venues where they can develop their skills in relatively sheltered and secure surroundings. Just as with the main trip plan suggestion service, winds and tides are taken into account to ensure that we can provide full details on times as well as places. Plus we can eliminate some venues when conditions are likely to be adverse.
We have also been working to extend the capabilities of the service to provide support for paddling areas beyond our initial launch focus on Anglesey. These will come on stream as quickly as possible and with the help of the community will allow the site to grow quickly to make SKW the default answer to the question “Where shall we go paddling tomorrow?”.
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