Horrible feeling
I know how it feels to be wedged into a slalom boat (give me a placcy whitewater boat any day) and stuck upside down. I reckon if it hadn't been a team run with two others to get me out of the shit I'd have been a prime contender for a real life ResusciAnnie (or whatever that plastic bing was called) on the banks of the Tweed that day.
( SteamedCleaner, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 13:44, 1 reply)

haha
it was up at fernilee, which has a very tame course, i was just unlucky i guess.

after that i've always used my 4-twenty playboat, it may be slow, but i can almost fall out of it
( weaver., Sat 14 Feb 2009, 13:58, closed)

Exact spot
My flip over spot was on the chute just below the bridge, which sounds like the same place as yours. I felt much happier stuck at the side of the course with a stopwatch and a clipboard. Who the hell invented these daft cramped boats anyway?

I'm old and past it now, so mainly paddle an open Canadian these days (it tips, you fall out, no problem!), though I have bought a long, thin, pointy boat to do the Avon Descent this year (but probably next as I'm so unfit at the moment).
( SteamedCleaner, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 4:26, closed)