Carlisle Canoe Club

A recent conversation with a parent has highlighted to the club committee that some confusion may exist, particularly with non-paddling parents, in differentiating between club sponsored trips and those trips organised between individual paddlers.

Thanks to the efforts of Lizzie and a number of the club photographers, we are expecting delivery of the 2012 club calendar in the middle of November

As they say in some of the best magazines its a limited addition, so you need to get your orders to Lizzie fast as we would hate disappoint.

It is printed on A4 and contains some good pictures.

Price  £ 5-00 per copy, with any profits profits will going into club funds

Sale Items Page

Since the the recent issue of Code, some confusion has existed regarding the new Coaching First Aid training requirements. The following is the definitive list, until it gets changed again!

Brian wishing to put his open up for sales has prompted us to add a new section to the website.

If you have boats, paddles or other kit you wish to offer for sale to members and other site visitors or just want to pass on gear you no longer use, feel free to send me:- details of the item (including picture if you wish), price and contact details

If the item is sold or no longer available, it would helpful if you could email me to delete the item from the website, in any event items will be deleted after 30 day unless I receive a request to the contrary.

Did you know that with Canoe England membership you can obtain a 15 percent discount, from Cotswold's, on most outdoors goods by showing your membership card.

For the period 2-11 December! this discount is being increased to 20 percent, so if you are planning some Christmas shopping, that is the time to do it.

For more information on membership offers, follow the link to the Canoe England offers page ' http://www.canoe-england.org.uk/members-area/members-offers/ '

Sadly our surf weekend has been cancelled because of a lack of surf.

Like all things related to weather forecasting, predicting surf well in advance is not easy, however you can look up surf prediction tables on the River Level page of the website.

The question is “What creates good surf?”

 Two main factors affect if the surf will be good:-

Our second succesful Slalom event on the Sands Rapid. The sun shone and the river was flowing at good level, it made putting the gates up in the rain on Saturday all worthwhile.

In addition to good support from Carlisle CC, paddlers attended from both Copeland CC and Selkirk CC, the youngest paddler was 7 years old and he was pretty impressive for a first attempt on moving water.

Ray impressed us all by his ability to miss gate 6 on both runs and Ian had an impressive capsize in his open boat which ruined his chances of beating Martin. Better luck next year Ian.

With the night drawing in we will be moving to our winter schedule at the beginning of October.

The last evening session on the river will be the 22nd September, the coaches will then take a well earned rest until Thursday 6th October for the first pool session. The next river session taking place 10 - 12 on Saturday 8th October. 

No formal beginners sessions take place in winter, however if the river level is suitable, members of the September intake can complete their 1 star.

Signal Crayfish found in the Derwent Catchment!! A member of the public has reported to the Environment Agency in Penrith seeing a crayfish in the St Johns Beck (Derwent Catchment) near Threlkeld. No crayfish (native or non-native) were previously known to occur in this catchment. Environment Agency staff from fisheries and FRB (Fisheries, Recreation and Biodiversity) have confirmed that non-native signal crayfish are present.