Its been a busy weekend at Davepaddles, with our pool session last evening and an AquaPaddle today, 9 paddlers went to 6 over night, and Dave set off early, only to be caught in yet another car fire traffic jam on the A41 bypass. None the less arrived in time and setup the event. Everyone
AquaPaddle Tring 23rd Feb 2025 Read More »
Its been really hard trying to book a pool that has what we need and that will allow us to practice multi craft rescues etc. Most pools want either a SUP only session, a Canoe only session or a Kayak only session. At davepaddles.co.uk we have been discussing these options for over a year and
Pool Session 22nd Feb 2025 Read More »
Our 1st event from our social side of the club was held on Thursday 6th Feb 2025 at the Hollywood Bowl in Watford, this event was organised by Clare who did a great job in encouraging 6 of us to attend. We had a great couple of hours, with many laughs and good conversation as
Tenpin Bowling 6th Feb 2025 Read More »
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 »
On Friday 17th and Saturday 18th Jan, Davepaddles.co.uk had a 16 hour, 2 day First Aid Course, ran from our clubhouse in Rickmansworth. There were 8 of us in total attending this course, some new to first aid, some renewing and some just topping up on any latest techniques that may have changed. Neil was
2 day 1st Aid Course 17/18th Jan 2025 Read More »
Great Day For A Paddle Although it looked quite bleak it wasn’t cold as we headed to meet at the clubhouse. A nice warm room waited for us to get changed and ready to start. Although there seemed to be a slight nip in the air at first, it wasn’t cold when we set off
Batchworth GUC Clean Up, 30.12.2024 Read More »
Well After our initial meeting place let us down, (can you believe it) We re-organised to the Stag pub in Chorleywood, that had everything we wanted and needed to put on a celebration meal. We were all in place at our reserved table by 7pm and the staff of the pub were above excellent in
Davepaddles Christmas and Birthday Celebrations 2024 Read More »
On Sat 7th Dec Dittons PBC had organised a rescue training session in a swimming pool and invited Dave to assist in a bit of coaching due to Davepaddles being a multi craft club, and with the knowledge of rescues from all craft to all craft. This was planned for Kayak, Canoe and Paddleboard but
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Those registered to receive them, should now have Nov 24’s newsletter from the club delivered to your email inbox. If you have not received it (please 1st check your spam folder) and still want a copy, please contact one of the committee members who will be pleased to forward you one. We no longer supply
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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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