Vic to tassie - anyone here done it?

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Discussion Starter · Oct 3, 2006

I've long held fantasies about paddling/peddling from Wilsons Prom to Tasmania. Now that I've spent a bit of time with the Hobie Sport and seen what I'm capable of doing in it (done 2 x 30+km days in a row a couple of times with relative ease), I'm giving serious thought to making a Hobie Adventure my next yak and actually doing it. I've plotted a basic course using google earth and it doesn't appear to be as difficult as I originally thought it might be.

Now I know google earth isn't giving me the real picture, but I also know people have paddled it before. So if it can be paddled, I'm certain it can be peddled/paddled with greater ease. So I'm wondering if anyone here has done it before, and if so, what advice would you have for me?

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Milt

· #9 · Oct 3, 2006

As much as I'd like to do it my skinny little arms I don't think would make it

I often think of how much fun it would in a yak amongst a huge swell having done some ocean sailing in the past. But something tells me it would be too much fun in a yak in a 20 - 30 foot swell in bass strait or maybe it would providing it wasn't a breaking swell???

I think if i were a young and not married I'd love to attempt it with adequate support of course.

Milt,

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