Lecture at Falmouth Maritime Museum

Patrick Winterton will be giving a lecture on his Scottish Extremities expedition at the National Maritime Museum at 7pm on Thursday 26th April.

Below is a small extract from an article he wrote..

See you there!

SCOTTISH EXREMITIES
1500Km of the best sea paddling Scotland has to offer:

‘Scottish Extremities’ is one of the most committing solo kayak expeditions to have been undertaken in British waters but it was not an unprecedented circum-navigation or a speed record attempt. As a consequence the question ‘why’ was frequently asked, but seldom convincingly answered. Now I’ve had plenty of time to think about it I realise this trip was born, not in the pub, but on the beaches. Weeks of sitting on Tiree and the like and being drawn to the distant Hebrides that regularly appear at sunset like a row of Chinese hats . For years I’ve wanted to paddle this, and other stretches of water but I’d never successfully coordinated the time, friends, and weather.

Frustration finally set in at the beginning of the year which is when I took the initial step of turning a dream in to reality: the first major investment. From then on the Scottish version of ‘memory map’ stole all my spare time. Each red route line laid down became more ambitious than the previous one. I was almost shocked by the excitement of this process but became increasingly reluctant to reveal the plans to anyone for fear of being ridiculed. The route was ambitious, perhaps ludicrously so for someone who was to be office bound for the five months prior to setting off.