Flat water
Club awards 2020
The recent AGM announced the following awards: The following awards were ‘furloughed’ (not awarded this year_ due to lack of paddling because of the Covid-19 situation: Most improved white-water paddler; Best marathon paddler; Polo most improved player; River God
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Ancient canoeing videos (from VHS)
For your entertainment: I’ve sorted through some old videos of Bristol Canoe Club trips, which I originally got from Quentin Nichols on VHS tape. Variously from 1993 to 2003. I’ve (eventually) uploaded them to the web so that we can all have a laugh (aka enjoy the demonstration of skills Read more…
Flat water
Risk Assessments
The committee have agreed the wording of the following risk assessments, for use when participating in club activities: General WW Risk Assessment: GeneralWWRiskAssessmentV1.0 Pool & Polo Risk Assessment: PoolAndPoloRiskAssessmentV1.0 Flat Water Risk Assessment: FlatWaterRiskAssessmentV1.0
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Neil Cox Iceland Cost-to-Coast May 2017
Neil Cox, and Leanne Dyke, both members of Bristol Canoe Club, crossed Iceland with a Packraft (a type of inflatable kayak) in May 2017. Here is Neil’s write-up, including video, and a river description. https://www.neilcoxmisadventures.com/packrafting/2017iceland-report Neil comments: “We believe this is the first recorded source-to-sea descent of the Þjórsá, with Read more…
Photos
Tryweryn weekend photos [Aug 2017]
Here are some photos from the Tryweryn weekend: https://goo.gl/photos/yBjx5WGz24Nmt3w1A
Photos
Idaho trip 2017 – “Above recommended level”
A bunch of us travelled to Idaho in the USA in June 2017, for a multi-day trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon. Here is a write-up, and some links to photos included at the end: https://www.bristolcanoeclub.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Idaho2017Writeup.odt
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Bristol Canoe Club’s first newsletter
I have a copy of the very first newsletter distributed by Bristol Canoe Club. This is “Issue 1, Number 1”, December 1962. The club had obviously been founded before this, but we don’t know how much earlier. Note that this includes a suggestion to paddle the river Dart from Dartmeet Read more…
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Montenegro, Tara gorge, Summer 2015
In Summer 2015, a group of us went to Montenegro to paddle the Tara gorge, a beautiful three-day trip through a deep gorge. We found that the (limited) available information was sometimes misleading, so I created something to help future trips. This document isn’t really a trip write-up, instead it Read more…