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February 2010
 
Known for their love of fast, feisty white water, even the canoeists haven’t been out much over winter with the fast stream warnings and red boards.  Unfortunately, the annual Dart Trip last autumn had to be cancelled due to such conditions that even Noah would have found challenging! 
 
However, determined not to wait another year, the section have re-organised the trip which will now take place on the new date of Saturday 13th/Sunday 14th March. Loading up the trailer on Friday evening and leaving early on the 13th, returning late on the Sunday afternoon. The trip is open to 2* canoeists or above (or fairly competent 1* by consultation with Sean or Chris). Accommodation is provided in a lovely B&B north of the Dart at Widecombe in the Moor.  Any children wanting to come along will need to have a parent/guardian with them. 
 
Interested and want to see if there is a space?  Please email Sean Sutcliffe at sutcliffefamily@lineone.net
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Sprint Canadian Canoes

posted 31 Mar 2009 07:48 by chris jennings   [ updated 31 Mar 2009 07:50 ]

Back in late October (when the river was a bit warmer!) WBC persuaded 2012
Olympic hopeful Karl Yurwich and his coach to bring a couple of sprint C1
canoes down to the club for our members to try out. (Incidentally, Karl did
pretty well in the canoe events at Wargrave & Shiplake this year too!).

Ok, so when it came to WBC members having a go in the less wobbly training
boat, most of us ended up swimming. For those that were not running to
changing rooms for their towels, there was Karl’s Olympic standard race boat
to try.
This monster is about the width of your knee and it seemed, to us, had one
purpose – to throw the Wargrave paddlers into the wet stuff. Needless to say,
we had another swim, except Karl who went out and stayed dry as a bone in
his jeans and t-shirt. We hope to persuade Karl to come back in the spring for
a re-match – WBC v The Beast.

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Dart Trip

posted 24 Oct 2008 10:10 by chris jennings   [ updated 31 Mar 2009 07:54 ]

15th - 16th Nov
Accommodation at  at www.lowerblackaton.com  
 

A car park in Dartmoor on a cold November Saturday saw a group of 16 intrepid WBC canoeists together for a weekend of white
water fun. River levels were high and progress was 'rapid'. As usual, we had to stop just after Holne bridge for some of the
madder ones to throw themselves off only to fall 30 metres into freezing water! Clearly the rapids that we had negotiated earlier
hadn’t provided enough of an adrenalin surge!

Trouble at the Dart Country Park meant that we couldn't exit the river and so continued downstream to Buckfastleigh. As no-one
had paddled this stretch of river before, we were uncertain how far remained or what we might encounter; a big rapid that caught
many unawares and a weir that all but the very brave decided to take on was what we found. Eventually, when dusk was closing
in, amid pitiful cries of "are we there yet?" we spied our cars.

Some beers in the local pub and a night in a great B&B on Dartmoor (thanks, Sean) soon put us right. After a full fry-up on
Sunday morning, 13 of the group decided to paddle again, but exited at the bridge (strangely enough, no-one throwing
themselves off this time!).
Jane Swift

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