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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…
Since I last wrote to you, the Club has engaged in a fair bit of paddling. Our marathon paddlers are building a growing number of members training on Tuesday and Wednesday nights (depending on weather) as well as competing in Read more…
Bristol Canoe Club have a regular marathon/sprint racing training session for 2024, every Saturday, starting 9.30-11am, and depending on attendance will hold another session midweek. “Racing in Bristol has been rather fragmented over the years with racing members getting on Read more…
On the 23rd to the 25th of February, 2024, 16 club members ventured up to the lakes in an assortment of cars. One club member decided to fly in from Switzerland, something about lack of snow for skiing or something. Read more…
Bristol canoe club will again be running beginners courses on Bristol Harbour in 2024. The course is run in four evening sessions from our base at Baltic Wharf on the Harbour. We provide all the kit you need to learn Read more…
Bristol Pitbulls played in their final Div 2 South West regional last night in Cheltenham. This was probably the toughest tournament I’ve every played in. We had two tough games against Swansea and Rhondda, both of which have strong players Read more…
Our website is looking a bit bare, but yes, many club members have been kayaking white water through the winter. Members can hear about short-notice trips on our email lists. We have various weekend day trips, some weekday trips, and Read more…
We seem to have created a tradition of having a Christmas pub crawl in the week or two leading up to Christmas. People were asking me the other day about some of the routes we had done in the past, 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.