On Sunday 26th Jan 2025 with 7 people signed up for the new and the latest location for Aquapaddle, 5 paddlers were at the start line for 09.30, The Grove lock pub was our starting point. 2 paddlers seemed not to have turned up, but we will come to that a bit later. The wind […]
AquaPaddle Leighton Buzzard 26 Jan 2025 Read More »
What a great day, we started all as planned, with the usual additions and withdrawals and all the paperwork that goes with it but it was covered, an early start, risk assessment, load, setup and then good to go. At the venue, (The Grand Junction Arms in Tring) we had a carpark marshal (Peter) directing
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As the autumn has finally hit us the weather has also changed, we think this put a few fair-weather paddlers off. with 9 signed up it was a struggle to marshal the event as some of our normal marshals were committed elsewhere and we almost cancelled it. But at the last minute the hero’s changed
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This trip was mainly to do the planning for another AquaPaddle that is planned to start in Jan 2024. The plan initially was as a second location to our Tring AP, but yet may be set up and run as a standalone Bedfordshire venue. We had to measure the 2.5k each way distance and also
GUC Leighton Buzzard 10th Nov 2024 Read More »
On a cold Oct morning the numbers changed from 14 to 9 paddlers, and 6 marshals paddling this month’s AquaPaddle, 5K free event. With many returning paddlers and some new, and even some staying overnight as not to miss the start time. The usual safety brief was given by the captain in the carpark to
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This month’s Tring AquaPaddle had 18 participants in total, consisting of 14 on the water, we had 7 Marshals with 3 paddling and 4 on the bank. 4 kayakers and 10 paddleboards. The weather was bright and sunny as is almost always the case when Dave organises something. 🙂 Winney was home in 1st place
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Dave arrived at the Grand Junction Arms first to set up for the morning followed by Peter who now has the carpark marshalling down to a tee, thanks Pete. Due to tyre trouble Chris arrived in his smaller car with no room for his boat but with a bit of planning had arranged for Dave
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On Sunday 4th Aug some of the Tring AquaPaddle crew (Phillip, Dave, Zoe, Coco, Hettie and Ziggy) went to try out the 5K Hampton Molesey AquaPaddle on the river Thames. Zoe assisted the Timekeeper whilst Dave and Phillip were going for their personal bests, Coco Hettie and Ziggy just went for the day out and
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On Sunday 14th of July Davepaddles Crewed its third AquaPaddle, We were a little low on numbers this time with 7 Paddlers and 8 Marshals and only 1 no show., we were expecting this as the Sunday was a full day of sporting finals. The weather once again was lovely with a high of 22
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