Found by a friend of mine - looks like it may have fallen off a roof rack onto the side of the road. Name 'Vicky Wright' inside with a phone number, but no reply when called...

I thought that the ranges were out of use in July and August - I was camping along there on Friday night! Has their policy changed?

Don't hang about. The boat should not really stop moving. The temptation will be - especially on the longer races and ultimately DW - to just sit on the side for a few seconds more before getting in the boat. This is the path to the dark side, young Skywalker. Those few seconds turn into a minute, a...

Farmer Bowen's field river left just up from Yat Rock. Used to charge £1 pppnt. There is a Whetherspoons in Monmouth - cheap and fairly cheerful. Forget what its called.

My club has some old pool kayaks - now pretty much beyond their sell-by date. We have a rotobat and some aquabats - if anyone remembers those! They were great back in the day, when the skills learned in them were easily transferable to boats on the river - which were usually Dancers or similar. I am...

Thank Heavens for natural selection... http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/10419941.Do_you_recognise_men_carrying_unexploded_tank_shells_they_d_picked_up_from_Dorset_beauty_spot_/ I think technically that they would be required to have removed themselves from the gene pool, for natural selection to be...

Where are you based? I have a left handed robson green - in red.

Vulch

Does anyone know if the canal on the Waterside A course is frozen or not?

cathalferris, Negotiations with the access agreement on the Dee are going well. We are reaching the final stages of the agreement now which will enable more paddling and also use for commercial river operators on payment of fees. We are also organising tours and events. Mike Dalton and Pete Carol o...

Huge buckets of irony in the second part of my original post. My point is that the alleged intention of the change in the coaching system, has not had the intended effect. The majority of paddlers entering the sport do not pay through the nose for coaching, instead learning from other, more experien...

Historically it has been very difficult for more than a few people to MAKE A LIVING from coaching paddling. This was because coaching awards were fairly cheap and not very time-consuming. If you were a good paddler and did the Trainee level 3 course and paid attention and then did some coaching unde...

I remember hearing a tale about a guy who was banned from the BCU for life for somehting he did at the Washburn.... This guy supposedly put on at the resevoir above the dam when it was fairly high (water flowing over the spill way) and then paddled over it sliding down the very steep but smooth spi...

Schools are a difficult one. They have a very obvious higher duty of care towards the kids. Most parents wouldn't expect random people to be wandering through their kid's school. The security guard was simply doing his job. Just like the secretary at the front desk of every primary school in the cou...

Right of navigation runs as far up as the Wareham bypass - this is the tidal limit. But with the legal nicities out of the way, it doesn't get paddled much as far as I know! I have paddled up above the bypass (some time ago) I think about a mile. Legend has it that the fisherfolk about those parts a...

...I'm planning the same route over the Easter weekend 2013... The Easter weekend is usually the Devises to Westminster Canoe Race: http://www.dwrace.org.uk/ , so it'll be very busy. To be fair, its not actually that bad. By the time everyone gets down onto the Thames, its not actually that busy. L...

Got one in my club. What do you want to know? Needs a rudder or skeg - not always fitted as standard, as I recall. Pleasantly quick. Characteristic upturned nose. flattish stern. Looks like it was designed from scratch by Kirton - not as much greenland influence as more popular designs. Hope this he...

Yup.

All rivers are restricted.

Just to different extents.

Right! I've purchased a Garmin Forerunner 405 from fleabay. Seems pretty good so far, but I do need to fashion a deck mount for it. Like the idea of tethering it to the rudder cables too!

I will let you know the highs and lows. Just in case anyone ever reads this stuff.

Vulch

Which is the best GPS watch for marathon training? I intend to mount it on the deck of the boat, so bulky shape is not really an issue. It obviously needs to be waterproof, and the screen needs to be readable at that distance. I also want to have actual speed on the display. Some watches apparently ...

Has anyone paddled the Thameside 1 course this week? There are more flowing sections so it is unlikely to be as frozen as Race A, especially given the recent increase in temperature...

Any ideas?

My first car was a Mini - excellent. Everything has been said above. My current car is a 110 Defender - excellent. Everything has been said above. You clearly know about them too. I've got a 200tdi in mine and swear by it. However, I have always wanted a Volvo Amazon. Link below. MPG is probably not...

'Tis done.

Yukon 1000 ? :) I don't think this post is really about Shaun and Sharon doing the Yukon, I'm afraid. Look at the other posts from the same person. This should be in the commercial adverts section. To be fair, it is probably just another paddler trying to make a living out of paddling, but veiling ...

Was a few inches off the ledge when we left yesterday. It was the busiest I have ever seen the Loop in 20 years. Perhaps I just haven't paddled at weekends much, or perhaps people just don't search out other, quieter rivers any more.... Or perhaps the Loop was the only thing running yesterday... Vulch

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Elegantly done.

When I read this thread I bristled slightly. Not sure why. For some reason I felt that someone was ramming religion at me. So I had a think about it. If it had been someone linking to a Buddhist canoe club I would not have bristled. Why? It seems that I am a 'religionist' - or at least I was until I...

Most Knysna boats are - how should I put this - a similar hull shape to that of a boat made closer to home... I'm not sure what the stiletto x is similar to, but I'm sure someone does! It might even be a Jaguar!

Vulch

This from the BCU: 28) COMPETING IN A CREW BOAT A paddler is normally ranked on singles performances. When competing in doubles events the competition ranking shall normally be an average of the individual paddlers’ rankings (all halves rounded down). "all halves rounded down" - does this mean down ...

Sprint, I believe. High backed seats prevent your arse moving back too far when you leg drive, providing you with a bit more leverage and reducing the 'give' between the paddle blade and the boat. I reckon. Some of my guys prefer them for marathon too though, paddling DW this last year with them. HT...

Hi Glyn (Glyn B?), Malcolm Acreman is the chap who masterminds the Poole Harbour Race each year, or at least he used to. You can almost certainly contact him through the PHCC website. He is a good man who has been involved in racing of many sorts over the years. If you can't find him, let me know, a...