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Yukon 1000 race movie
Following Mark and Julie Hamilton’s epic trip on the Yukon 1000 race in 2025, here is a more in-depth film on their 8 day adventure on the river. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqeZ5224-2U
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Bristol’s Ladies compete in the SW Regional Canoe Polo League
Club members Emily, Lucy and Lisa competed in women’s SW regional canoe polo league last Saturday coming 4th overall. The team played extremely well, despite not playing together much or having any subs and lots of fun was had!
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Beginners trip to the River Exe
What started out a grey Sunday, with a few paddlers lost to the lurgy, turned into a delightful paddle down the Exe. Many thanks to Lewis who expertly led the team as pairs of experienced and beginner paddlers made their way down weirs and the other fun features the Exe Read more
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Bristol Pitbulls – South West Regional Canoe Polo – Division 3
On 21st Feb 2026, our Pitbulls Canoe Polo Team travelled up to Cheltenham to have the second set of games in the south West Regional league. Buoyed on by winning all of the games the previous weekend, the team was on top form. Our first game against Brecon A was Read more
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Trip to the River Barle
Many thanks to Thomas Harvey for organising a Grade trip to the River Barle on Exmoor. Our trip included 2 beginners, so we decided to run the lower Tavy from Dulverton down to the Anchor Inn at Exebridge. Levels were a little higher than expected and we were forced to Read more
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River Dart Trip 2025 21st – 23rd November
With rivers and sea paddling options covering all levels this was one of the largest events of the year. We had 42 people accepted on Spond; We had 35 Dinners prepared in the Abbey Inn with 34 people attending. The Bunk house was all but booked out, we also had Read more
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Chair Speech October 2025 AGM
Welcome everybody to this year’s canoe club AGM. We’ve got an exciting agenda not only covering the mechanism of the AGM, which is primarily to elect new members onto the committee and to present our highly coveted trophies. We also have a presentation by Julie and Mark Hamilton for their Read more
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Mark and Julie Hamilton complete the Yukon 1000 in July 2025
August 2023 Julie and I put our application in for 2024. So much more than a paddling CV is needed – details of wilderness experience and experience of stressful situations needed to be complemented by self-reflection on the multitude of deficiencies we had and how we would overcome them in Read more
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Bristol Pitbulls play at the National Div 3 Tournament
Our first summer tournament of the year took us to Treharris with only 5 players raring to go, as some of our squad took the easy route and went to Glastonbury????. The tournament was held on the Taff Bargoed Valley near Merthyr Tydfil on the River Taff. There were 8 Read more
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Big Paddle Clean-up on the Bristol Harbour 2025
A big thank you to the 15+ people who supported the club’s rubbish clearance in the City Docks last night (Especially Anne Greenhalgh, who got the clean-up kit from Paddle UK, and helped with the organisation.). We collected 5 large sacks of rubbish, working in three teams, covering Cumberland Basin Read more