Olivier's Blog: kayaking, skating, etc...

Children's Kayak (2018)

October 10 2018 , Written by Tournolive

This is a 160 x 50 cm kayak I built for the children. The weird thing is that I can't try it...

Building a short surf kayak (2016)

April 29 2017 , Written by Tournolive

After the experience of 2012 when I first built a surf kayak, there were many errors to be corrected on the shape. Overall, the cockpit and the seat were too much to the front (note: I moved the seat backwards later on), and I also wanted to reduce the...

Longboarding 2.0

April 16 2017 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Longboarding

The season 2016 was quite exciting. Many things happened after riding more or less the same board (Bastl Bolero / Caliber 50 / Orangatang The Keanu) for almost 3 years. First, I discovered the Hoots wheels from Remember. These wheels slide like butter...

Longboarding

January 13 2014 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Longboarding

Since I started longboarding in Sept. 2012 I have almost stopped paddling... This is a bit strange for me because I had been so focused on kayaking for almost 20 years. But honestly I was more and more frustrated with kayaking. The last few years I had...

Reverting desertification with a simple method?

March 7 2013 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Agriculture - Sustainability - etc.

Allan Savory & The Savory Institute (http://www.savoryinstitute.com/) promote Holistic Planned Grazing: a cattle intensification and planned grazing managemant, to stop desertification and regreen the arid regions of the world. Since I started my scientific...

Construction d'un kayak de surf en "one-shot"

May 31 2012 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Kayak - General

Cet article décrit la construction d'un kayak de surf court (190 cm), inspiré de kayaks tels que le Element (Fluid), le SRR's et le Max (Mega), ou le Squashtail (Dragorossi). Comme c'est le premier kayak de surf que je concois et que je n'ai jamais testé...

Cloth diapers and paternity leave

December 13 2010 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Miscellaneous

Since the birth of Raphael 2 months ago, we've been using mainly cloth diapers instead of disposable ones. There are different types of cloth diapers but we use mainly flat ones, the most simple type. Here is a short how-to manual for folding and swaddling,...

New mezzanine bed

August 12 2010 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Wood - Carpentry

Here is a photo of our good old tree-bed which we demounted with a lot of nostalgia... ... then we started installing the new mezzanine bed (2m10 * 2m90): Here is a try to give a global view of it: Now there are hooks for hanging hammocks: How to climb...

Empty tomatoes

August 8 2010 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Miscellaneous

I mentioned in a previous article that slugs are a nasty pest in our garden... Here the proof: The garden is far away from where we live, and because we had no time to take care of them the tomatoes grew too close to the soil where the slugs are.

Bicycles in Amsterdam

July 26 2010 , Written by Tournolive Published on #Miscellaneous

While visiting the Netherlands, one of the most amazing things for me were the few hundred thousands of bicycles in Amsterdam. First, there are giant parkplaces but generally there are bicycles chained everywhere... there are familybikes... lying bikes......