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POOL Sessions
Just a reminder that Pool and Polo sessions will resume on Wednesday January 9th, 2019. The Pool will also be shut between Christmas and New Year.
Historical
New committee for 2018-2019
The Bristol Canoe Club AGM 2018 was held last week. The new committee for 2018-2019 is: Chairman: Jeremy Sykes Treasurer: Fran Bamber Secretary: Tanya Cownie Membership: Nick Wainwright Other committee members: Conor O’Neill, Dave Hill, Mark Gillett, Emma Newman, Iain Read more…
News
Pengins Win Polo Div 2
Some great news and many congratulations to the Bristol Penguins, who finished their final DIV SW Regional Tournament last weekend at our Outdoor Pitch. They won 14 out of 14 games and securing promotion to Div 1 SW next season. 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
Calendar
Beginner’s course 2018
Please note that this course is now full. The club will be organising a beginner’s kayaking course for adults in May/June 2018. This is intended for people who are interested in taking up the sport of kayaking in the future, Read more…
Historical
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 Read more…
News
Bristol Pitbulls Div 3 National
The Pitbulls had a little bit of a slow start to the new season 2017/18 with one win and 4 losses. However, two games were very narrow losses and this was a new team with great efforts from Sam and Read more…
Photos
Tryweryn weekend photos [Aug 2017]
Here are some photos from the Tryweryn weekend: https://goo.gl/photos/yBjx5WGz24Nmt3w1A
News
Penguins Win
Big congratulations to our Penguin Polo Team who won their league and a massive trophy (see enclosed) at the international Canoe Polo Tournament in Belgium over the wee kend August 19/20 2017. http://www.de-paddel.be/tournament-1-en The team included Simon Pearson (our Chairman), Read more…
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