Whole thing's a shambles, how they've taken a well used facility open virtually every day and turned it into something that's open every other blue moon is beyond me.
Public money down the drain, what a waste

How sad, she was lovely to deal with and produced the best kit
And how generous to offer the kit and expertise.

Indeed, realised I'd got my mid 90s not a spud zero rocker creek boats wrong. Correct probe to prijon gambler.

Pioneered by lakes paddling legend Richard Evans. Certainly ran everything he published. Mostly in prijon probe or latterly an RPM.
Anyone ticked all his becks?

This one?
Needs quite a bit of water but goes fine


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Quite a nice vid to go with it. Pretty clear that the existing rights are being pushed.

Just remember the sunshine, scenery and fun. Maybe got lucky.

Inn - surely Europe's greatest river

Tilt - favourite day of UK boating, river, level, company all spot on

Skookumchuck - can I cheat and have both the rapid and the river?

The use of whistles on rivers has always disturbed me. It seems to have come from New Zealand where rivers can be very steep and very remote. In the UK line of sight is much better and there's much more chance of whistles being overheard by outdoors folk who consider a whistle to be a piece of emerg...

River app is pretty good

Take a look at "RiverApp - River flows"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... d.riverapp

Agree with Findhorn, similar experience throwing kit up the cliffs and scrambling after it as it rose 3m in 5 mins at Randolf's. Also similar on the Ure at a slalom at West Tanfield. From div 4 course to all gates being garotting hazard in 5 mins. Strangely both on perfectly dry days with rain overn...

To be fair it only had 4 gears. Think engines have moved on a bit since then, the cars you're considering probably have servo assisted brakes and a passenger side mirror 4 boats on a 1l 1984 polo. Needed 3rd gear to get across A66 but it was the finest of paddle wagons. Probably >20k miles of boatin...

4 boats on a 1l 1984 polo. Needed 3rd gear to get across A66 but it was the finest of paddle wagons. Probably >20k miles of boating driving.

Old thread but it's drawn me in There are so many more climbs than rivers, UK whitewater GR4 and above has fewer rivers than a single big crag has routes. The way down a river is not subject to someone having the imagination to invent it, it's top to bottom. A river changes every time you're on it, ...

Tees. Ledge between warton lido and Winston bridge

I've been using a sub 7 1ball.
Works pretty well

Sad fact is that it has nothing to do with the environment or generating electricity, it's just a subsidy harvesting scheme.

It's dark, again
Time to reassess the faff-laden folk you're paddling with

Anything that includes the question "please indicate how important you consider each of the following factors to be when structuring a strategic plan designed to maximise the development and delivery of Canoeing in Great Britain and Northern Ireland" has my respect http://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9L...

In which case, BC and EA are to be applauded. Keep up the good work. I'd encourage everyone who comes across or knows of a weir dangerous to canoeists or other river users to identify it to BC so they can feed the info to EA when consulted on changes to weirs.

That's good of the EA, perhaps people would like to tell them of any weirs which are routinely dangerous for canoeists so they can look to sort them out too. The one in Settle on the Ribble is pretty unpleasant and dangerous. There's a nasty one on the Kent too. Perhaps some ramps like in Germany wo...

Probably one for the locals, but the back of the bridge in Barny Castle strikes me as having potential every time I paddle past in decent levels.

Found him through the crazy witchcraft that is social media.

Ok, does anyone know the chap who was taking photos half way down warden gorge on Saturday? Not from the rescue rock but by the nice surf wave river left. Had a fancy rain cover and was shooting from a tripod. Only ask because I tart surfed the wave for quite a while and would like to know if he'd p...

There are two crook o lunes ( or crooks o lune?) The one CE refer to is near Caton where a road and cycle path cross the river. It's about 1/2 mile upstream of the weir. Egress is easy river left upstream of the weir. Normal practice is to put on below the weir so no issues with the intakes. Happy p...

Cobblers surely.
Don't touch the gravel until we know how the fish disease is transmitted.
Fish don't get I'll if you abide by access agreements.

That really does need some research.

You're having a kick around with mates, your tackle means a mate turns his ankle, he's a self employed brick layer... You're riding some single track and stop suddenly, your mate behind takes evasive action and smacks into a tree, breaking his collar bone, he's a self employed brick layer... Whilst ...

Check what you're insured for. From memory bcu membership gives you third party insurance, not boat insurance, that used to be offered by nw brown. Unless you're instructing you have to ask what the value of third party insurance is to a recreational boater. Do you have third party insurance for rid...

I'd agree with Jim. First event sounded fun, turned out to be epic. Dominated by Midland uni paddlers with the rest of us confused by the old looping pool. Lots of squashed spuds, a few acros and super sports. Best aspect in terms of competition was that emerging stars of uk freestyle scene were all...

Great minds...