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River Spey, September 2024
Lisa and I paddled a canoe down the river Spey (Scotland) in September 2024, in a group of seven people.
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2024 AGM – Chair’s report
Welcome everybody and thank you for attending the 2024 AGM. The agenda for our AGM is very straightforward, I will be asking shortly if there are any comments on the minutes from last year, I will then ask the officers on the committee to present, followed by the discipline leads Read more…
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Letter from the Chairman: September 2024
Dear Members, As many of you may know, I have had to take some time out from actual canoeing after fracturing my pelvis following a crash on the road bike. I still hope to attend in person the Club AGM on Tuesday October 22nd, if the medics permit me to Read more…
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Letter from the Chairman: August 2024
Letter from the Chairman: Bristol Canoe Club Pool Sessions and Website Information
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France kayaking 2024 – High water
[Links to photo albums at the bottom of this article.] A large group of Bristol Canoe Club members (21 people) headed out to the Briançon area of France again, in June 2024. We have been to the same area very many times in the past, and we go there because Read more…
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Newsletter from the Chairman – March 2024
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 several races. They have also rebooked the gym at All Read more…
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Christmas socials…
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…
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Bristol Pitbulls Tournament 1 & 2 – National League 2023
Our Bristol Pitbulls entered into Division 3 of the National League and played their first tournament in a new venue at Blackwater Lake near Camberley on April 29th. Annoying, a tournament was simultaneously run in the Bristol Docks, but the League organisers at GB Canoeing somewhat understandably decided this location Read more…
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Canoe Club website clean-up and extras
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…
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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…