Looks like a lot of fun in an OC3 with only 3 paddlers. Great way to get some steering skills in the surf. Definitely a skill best acquired by actually doing it. For the paddlers, definitely will give you confidence in unstable conditions as well as the opportunity to feel the boat and how it responds in the swell, when to lift (rating and power) and when to back off and change sides and wait for the next one, etc. Seat 1 is wearing a 2007 Short Sleeve USA National Dragon Boat top.
Best piece of ocean steering/paddling advice I ever got was from Billy. It goes something like this:
"remember that what has just passed you and is now in front of you, is also just behind you"
Will be up that way next week for Christmas. Always go to Currumbim Beach and Headland. Will keep my eye out for an OC3.
I tried out an OC3 in Hong Kong earlier this year, for the first time. As a steerer it's great training because you can't poke (the sides aren't flat and are too low in the water) and have to paddle steer. It's a heavy thing, but goes like a rocket in the right conditions.
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