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Bristol Canoe Club is a club for paddlers in the Bristol area. [ March 2023. Please see our separate page regarding membership applications. ] We are a very active club, and we do lots of things – see the Calendar Read more…
Bristol Canoe Club is a club for paddlers in the Bristol area. [ March 2023. Please see our separate page regarding membership applications. ] We are a very active club, and we do lots of things – see the Calendar Read more…
Over the weekend of December 24-26th 2023, the Club’s whitewater team met for their annual trip to Dartmoor. Most of the 35+ members attending stayed in the Caving Barn near Ashburton, while a few opted for more luxury in some Read more…
British Canoeing provide a definition of a Club Activity, which defines (among other things) whether club members benefit from 3rd party insurance under Bristol Canoe Club’s affiliation to British Canoeing
This article is an attempt to clarify what the rules are about paddling on Bristol Harbour, and under what circumstances club members, and non-members, are permitted to use the harbour.
A couple of months ago, Steven Pike pointed us towards this book: “Moderate Becoming Good Later; Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast”, by Toby & Katie Carr.https://www.stanfords.co.uk/Moderate-Becoming-Good-Later-Sea-Kayaking-the-Shipping-Forecast_9781800076105“An exhilarating and deeply moving story of one man’s attempt to sea kayak the areas Read more…
The Harbour festival Committee invited both our Club and Avon CC to put on a demonstration of Canoe Polo at the Bristol Harbour Festival over the weekend of July 15th and 16th 2023. The rain and Harbour Festivals seems to Read more…
Over the weekend of July 4 and 5th 2023, the Bristol Pitbulls played their final tournament in the National League Div 3. This year the league consisted of 10 teams across the South West and South East after a couple Read more…
[ Link to the photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NoqWM9HAt6jEhNQn8 ] Each year Bristol Canoe Club organizes a foreign trip, but with private trips to France and America the only overseas destination for members this year was Croatia. Our old sea dog – Dave Read more…
Our Bristol Pitbulls entered into Division 3 of the National League and played their first tournament in a new venue at Blackwater Lake near Camberley on April 29th. Annoying, a tournament was simultaneously run in the Bristol Docks, but the Read more…