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From:
Scotty
Post: Just wanted to say well done and thanks on another
awesome race this year!! This was my 5th Drak in a row
and I hope to never miss one as long as I can paddle. It really is
by far the best race on the calendar, and my friends and I look
forward to it ever year!!
The fact that its
over a weekend so you don’t need to take leave is one of the biggest
drawcards too, so please keep it on Sat/sun.
Do you have any of
the old Drak boat/paddle stickers lying around? I’d like to stick
them on my paddling/diving/fishing boxes if you do please?
Regards
Scotty
From: Richard
Post :Please
could you send out a request on my behalf. My son wrapped at Black
Murray on Saturday and got a lift to the finish with the
photographers. He omitted to remove the helmet from their bakkie. On
Sunday they said it would be at the pub at the finish. Alas by
prizegiving it was not there. It is orange and has MILLER MHSCC on
the back. Should anyone be in possession of it, please could they
give me a call on 0827298975 or email me on
richard.miller@liblink.co.za to arrange for its return.
Many
thanks
Richard
richard.miller@liblink.co.za
From: Andrew Gillespie
Post :
I was forcibly
deprived of my Bratcha IV paddle in Black Murray at the Drak Day
1 (Sat 27 Feb) and I would greatly appreciate its return. If anyone
has found/finds it, there's a vasbyt on the shaft and my name and
mobile number are printed in the lip of the wing on each blade.
Andrew Gillespie 073 1780506
Andrew.Gillespie@uec.co.za
From: Matthias Suter
Post: I lost my FENN 4 paddle with my number 1507 on the drak
stickers on day 1 of Drak. It was well before Black Murray, about 5
km upstream in a 90 degree bend rapid. If you find it I have a
reward for you. Thanks.
Mattias Suter
Cell: 071 3260673
From: Jan-Louis Pretorius
Post: I
managed to lose my paddle just above Black Murray. It's a Letmann
1 and had my national number (1284) written on both the Drak
stickers on the blades. If someone picked it up, please give me a shout? Thanks!
Jan-Louis
0824484214
jpretorius1@wesbank.co.za
From:Rudi Fokkens
Post: School English essayI heard it before
I saw it, the roar of water cascading over rocks and boulders,
forming waves and holes. I seemed like a stranger, out of place in
the river valley, walled in by lush green walls of grass that forced
the water to be squeezed through a narrow gorge, with the occasional
cow grazing or bellowing into the fresh Berg air. I was unsure,
frightened maybe, as I braced with my paddle to decide which line I
should take down this awe-inspiring rapid, thinking of the advice
many people had given me,
my thoughts jumbled, my brain spinning.I had to make the choice now
as the current sucked me ever closer. I made my decision, following
the advice and my instincts; I kicked hard on the right rudder pedal
and dipped the blade of the paddle deep into the water and took a
powerful stroke that made the boat lurch forward as I kept paddling.
The entry into the rapid was tricky as I’d hugged the right bank,
ducked under the dead willow branches, glanced off a rock and shot
forward propelled by the powerful current. I veered left to avoid a
rock and a strong eddy, adrenaline pumping, brow covered in sweat
struggling to fight the raging torrent of water so I could get into
the middle of the river and squeeze between two boulders covered in
the morning dew and spray from the river that gave them a glossy
sheen. Scraping past the boulder I dropped off a ledge and into the
frothing pool below, the triumph that I had conquered Glenhaven made
me so exhilarated that I didn’t see the rock lurking just under the
surface that tipped my boat as I started to shout and raise my
paddle above my head in triumph and was rewarded with an
unintentional dip in the refreshingly cool Berg water.
From: Robyn Henderson
Post: There are 3 of us coming up from Cape Town for the
Drak, would you by any chance now of anyone who could drive for us
for the 2 days – we are willing to re imburse the driver – no
problem.
Thanks so much!
Robyn
robyn@thewinnersroup.com
083 455 2078
From: Tim O'Connor
Post:My young son lost his paddle less
than a kilometre or so upstream of Black Murray rapid on Saturday
23rd January, when flow was high. I returned to look for it on the
following weekend but had no luck. Would it be possible for your
organising committee to relay a message that I'll offer R200 for
the return of the paddle if found. It is a whitewater paddle, ie
square, flat blades, which are white with a small picture of a
seagull.
Thanking you in anticipation
Yours sincerely
Tim O'Connor
033 3433491
