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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
California 2013 Bristol Canoe club’s trip to California, May 2013 Rich Puttock, Rich RJ, Conor O’Neill, Lisa Gunton, Nick Wainwright, James (Badger) Hammonds, Lisa Fitzsimons, Mike Millington, Tim Johnson Photos I have put a “Quick set” of photos (61 photos) here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/q4Gksff7tLtrZFks5 If you want the full experience, the full Read more…
We’re now back from France. We had a great time, did loads of paddling, with much good weather, plus some not so good. It was certainly British winter style paddling for some of the time on the Ubaye. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to paddle the Verdon Canyon. There was no Read more…
I know plans are afoot to head to France again this summer and that reminded me I did nothing with the video I’d taken from the 2009 trip. So, here it is in all its glory… http://www.bristolcanoeclub.org.uk/static/videos/BCC_France_2009.m4v Enjoy JK PS. I’m not sure who has the footage from the ‘sunshine Read more…
Operation Cous-Cous has returned after successfully conquering Morocco. More details and about a million photos to follow [ ed – see some photos here ], but this is a brief summary of our trip: Day 1 – Get boats past grumpy check-in supervisor. Land in Marrakesh and meet up with Read more…
Yes, we went to Morocco, and we paddled (and rode camels!). See RJ’s summary here. Some photos to give you all a taste of what it was like: https://photos.app.goo.gl/HJMh5WytRzhsrebM7 RJ’s photos are here (I’m not sure whether you need a Facebook account): http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2458447&id=61211227&l=cd1e5fe328