A little about Me and how I "Got Clavey"

Most of you have heard by now that the Clavey Gang has gotten with it, the times that is. After only 29 years in business they finally hired a female to be part of the team. Well, I wanted to formally introduce myself to all the Clavey fans out there on the world wide web and beyond! So hear it goes, "How do you do, my name is Aluxa. Yes with an X. But when you say it, pucker your lips and allow a gentle "shh" sounds to emanate in place of that X . Like this: Ah-loo-sha."

How this all came to be: I wandered into the Clavey store about three years ago to purchase gear for a 14-Day sea kayak expedition I was leading for a group of 17 seventeen year olds (yes, both quantity and age) from a private academy in Boston. Our destination was my home town in the Mayan Riviera and our mission was to be the first to kayak the coastline from Mahahual to Rio Huach and to explore Laguna Bacalar, an inland fresh water lagoon near Chetumal. That trip in Mexico was awesome but so too was that first visit to Clavey. And so, I found myself coming back quite often - often for the comic relief, mostly for gear advice and occasionally begging for money. Not exactly suckers, they bet they'd get a better return on their investment if they hired me for money instead of loaning me money.>

With a desk, a computer and a fridge filled with beer, I've spent these first few weeks putting together social paddles and creating new fun trips for the Clavey calendar of events.


Last Friday, we offered our first ever stand up paddle board fun run on the Petaluma River from the Turning Basin to the Sheraton Hotel and Marina for happy hour. Our motivation was $4.00 margaritas and a free taco bar. We will now call this, appropriately enough, the Stand Up Taco Happy Hour Paddle.




What a blast! Even though the Sheraton forgot to mention that there was going to be a 500 person U.S. Coast Guard Graduation and no Free Taco Bar! We, 5 stand up paddlers, still managed to put ourselves outside some Margaritas and some darn good calamari and chicken wings. Don't worry that you missed the first one. We'll be hosting the Stand Up Taco Happy Hour Paddle once or twice a month. Of course, only those few lucky first received a commemorative grain of rice with Clavey written on it.

Join me for our next run on Friday, December 2nd. We've got plenty of SUPs if you don't.

Cheers and hope to see you in the shop or on the water soon!! Cheers, Aluxa