The recent AGM announced the following awards: Polo ‘most valuable’ player: Phil Charman Fish of the Year: Ruby (Lynne & Nick’s dog) for 5 swims on the Wye on the Glasbury weekend Phil Longrigg Trophy: Mark Gillett The following awards were ‘furloughed’ (not awarded this year_ due to lack of Read more
The recent AGM announced the following awards: Most improved white-water paddler: Tom Brockett Best marathon paddler: Colin Chudley Polo most improved player: Isaac Johnson Polo ‘most valuable’ player: Lewis Downward River God: “Pablo” (random guy in Slovenia), care of Richard Puttock Fish of the Year: Dave Hill, for Upper Dart Read more
Here is the set of the club’s policies, collected together into one place. Operational policies Access to the boat storage cage at Baltic Wharf: Cage_Policy Information for borrowing club boats: Boat_Policy “Legal” bits General WW Risk Assessment: GeneralWWRiskAssessmentV1.0 Pool & Polo Risk Assessment: PoolAndPoloRiskAssessmentV1.0 Polo Hazard Log: BCCPoloHazLogV2.0 Flat Water Read more
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
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
Here are some photos from the Tryweryn weekend: https://goo.gl/photos/yBjx5WGz24Nmt3w1A
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/static2/reports/2017/Idaho2017Writeup.odt
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
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
So where do you go in August to kayak brilliant consistent Grade 3 water (its dam released), in the sun, avoid car shuttles, while being surrounded by beautiful green forests? Answer – take up Dave Hill’s invitation to the National White Water Centre on the River Tryweryn near Bala. Having Read more