The Club organised its first Activity Day on Saturday June 14th, 2025 with over 50 members and their families attending. During the day we had demonstrations of play-boating, racing and canoe polo, as well as food and refreshments from an excellent BBQ. Many of the attendees had the opportunity to Read more…
Bristol Canoe Club’s annual Dart weekend took place over 15-17 November 2024. We had over 29 paddlers having a great time despite the complete lack of rain, which came a couple of days too late for us. Nevertheless, a wide range of activities were pursued including hiking, sea kayaking, caving, kayaking, Read more…
Very many thanks to Nick Wainwright for hosting a BBQ last weekend at his house. The weather cooperated nicely.
On Thursday May 30th, our weekly Club Session on the Docks participated in The Big Paddle Cleanup for 2024. We had 15+ members, including Dave Hill’s 5 year old son Toby helping clearing rubbish from the Arnolfini down to the Canoe Polo pitch situated below the Cumberland Basin. We pulled 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, so I dug out some info from old emails… Year 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 of the local pubs. The Friday early arrivers managed a Read more…
Not really canoeing related, but both of us are very long-standing members of the club… Lisa Gunton and myself (Conor O’Neill) have just spent three weeks cycling around the coast of Wales. Lisa is now continuing on northwards, to cycle around the whole of the mainland UK coast, plus a Read more…
I’ve given the Bristol Canoe Club website a bit of spring clean: https://www.bristolcanoeclub.org.uk/ It has a new WordPress theme, which makes it look a bit cleaner, with easier navigation. The search function is now more prominent, and there is a tag cloud which you can use to filter the articles Read more…
As of February 2020, the council have handed over control of parking at Baltic Wharf (i.e. “The Cottage Inn” car park), to the harbour master. We have seen that the harbour master has put up a sign saying that from 3rd March 2020 the car park will be closed overnight, Read more…
Many thanks to Lisa F for organising last weekend’s trip to Wales. 10 of us went and we had a great time. On Saturday we managed to paddle the Conwy (not the Fairy Glen!). Low water, but most of us had never paddled it before, some of us after trying Read more…