Paddler of the Year Award presentations, Talks on Alaska, Nepal and the French Alps and AGM Wednesday 11th October 2017 7:30 – 8:00pm – Arrival Liverpool Marina, Spinnaker Suite.  Slide-show of club photographs and activities over the year. 8:00 – 8:20pm – AGM (Election of Club Officials, Paddler of the Year, Members Motions) Welcome from the chair & review of the year Apologies for Absence. 2.         Minutes of the previous AGM – Click here Signed as a true record by the Chair Matters arising. Treasurers report  Online Year End Accounts – Click here Brief reports from each discipline (2 minutes each) Members motions –  None received.           Chair to thank all the volunteers that have coordinated and guided the club over the past year. Special thanks going to those who are now moving on: Kingsway pool on Monday Stuart Toulson, Brian Green from Surf. Polo – Theo Gaussen, Youth Coordinator – Chris Murphy          Election of Officers – Proposed list of those willing to stand for 2017-18 Chair – Fiona Barry; Secretary – Carole Thomas, Treasurer – Craig Ford; Membership Secretary & Volunteers – Keith Steer; Welfare Officers – John Fay, Publicity – Pete Thomas; Grants- Nicky Corbett; Junior / Youth Coordinator – Ian Colwyn; Notice boards – Peter Massey; Kingsway pool on Monday Dominic Fahey; Robin Emery; Stuart Conway; Nick Coughlin; Dave Reynolds & Keith Steer; “Discipline Representatives” to advise members / act as a point of contact: Coaching Coordinator – Dave Reynolds, Technical Coaching Advisor – Ian Bell; Polo – Josh Cook, Sea – Gareth Jones; White Water – John Allerton & Stuart Toulson; Freestyle – Graham Devaney; Open Boat – Mike Alter & Ruth Edwards; Kayak Safety Cover – John Worswick; Slalom – Michal Giezgala; Racing – Colin Smith; Surf – Karl Tattum, SOT – […]

Little video of the surfing at cable bay, anglesey weekend #4 by Craig Ellingham  

For those that like surfing or want to know the sea state for sea kayaking this might be of interest. CEFAS have a map of UK wave buoy data (WaveNet), which also provides forecast information at some locations. See http://wavenet.cefas.co.uk/Map If you select the basic map and click on the arrow in Liverpool Bay, then select the graph tab you’ll get the local 24hr wave forecast for wave height and period.

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the ‘Stand Up To Cancer Canoe Paddle.’ A number of celebrities have been picking up their paddles to join an heroic team powering their way through waterways of the North West arriving in the Albert Dock on Friday 29th September to a rapturous crowd. They were followed by a team of twelve kayakers from Liverpool Canoe Club, coordinated by Julie Brookes, who followed them through the iconic docks of Liverpool to the finish arch at the Albert Dock where they were met by hundreds of friends and specators as well as TV cameras from Channel 4. Showing grit and determination, the ‘Paddlers’; Carla Bradbury, Jag Chather, David Sing and Helen Weller, who have all been affected by cancer, have been rowing five marathons in five days. The team set off from Chester on Monday 25th September and finished the challenge in the heart of Liverpool, at the Albert Docks, today. ‘Swim Safety’ provided the safety cover throughout the 120 trip in three inflatable ribs. Some of the celebrities taking part include Hollyoaks actress Anna Passey (Sienna Blake), Made In Chelsea’s Sam Thompson, Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton, Judge Rinder star Robert Rinder, TV presenter Anthea Turner, The Only Way Is Essex star Chris Clark, Love Island’s Jess Shears and Dom Lever along with a host of other celebrities. Each of the marathon paddlers were partnered with a celebrity each day to help them reach the finish line. To date some £15,700,222 has been raised to fund further research into cancer!. Channel 4 will be producing a documentary later in the year featuring the research and the ‘Stand up to Cancer’ campaign. Congratulations to everyone concerned!

Do you enjoy paddling white water? Have you taken part in The largest white water event in Europe? The Tyne Tour is based in Hexham Northumberland over the weekend of the 3rd-5th of November.  The rivers are dam released from Keilder reservoir giving miles of river fun, come and paddle through the Northumbrian countryside.  In what I think is the most stunning time of year.  Including the infamous Wardens gorge!!! The  ticket booking for the weekend will be  individually via the main website   tynetour.co.uk  There are many options for booking available, depending on the number of days you wish to paddle etc.   Once you have booked a place on the weekend register you attendance on the LCC booking page and Stuart will  Personally I plan to arrive on the Saturday morning, meet anyone who wishes to join me on a peer group paddle from Barrisford to the Hexham Tyne green. This a grade 3 paddle and anyone who joins us should be capable of paddling at this level.  This section is non portagable, that means if you decide to run it you can not get off the river until the get out. The Saturday evening I will pitch my tent  on the Tyne green then head into Hexham to eat, drink and watch the fireworks On Sunday I plan to head south and paddle a section of the Tees depending on levels.  Many options for rivers are also available,  the organisers are running some grade 1/2 trips bookable via the web site.  With well over 1500 paddlers attending the area is busy, with this in mind, could you please inform us of your attendance via  the club  calendar booking page after you have ordered your tickets. This will ensure I can contact everyone and we can all meet up.  Thanks,  Stuart Toulson

Canoe Focus Magazine – September

If you’re interested in having access to tidal predictions between UK tide gauge locations the National Oceanography Centre have released a tidal predictions app anyTide. This provides tidal elevation and current information at 1.8 km intervals around the UK coastline, http://noc.ac.uk/business/marine-data-products/anytide For those of you who use the UK Hydrographic Office EasyTide predictions, these are based on software developed by the National Oceanography Centre. So the data at tide gauge locations should be the same.

I appreciate that not everyone has encountered trouble on the rivers – but unfortunately it does happen. NOW is the time to advise the Welsh Assembly of why access to rivers should be formalised. PLEASE can all paddlers take the time to provide a response to the Welsh Assembly as per the email below. It may also help if you forward the message to any friends and family who like to go for a swim in the river, or take the kids to paddle their toes. Thanks in advance Mike It is vital that the Welsh Government receives as many individual responses as possible, so we have prepared a template for you to use to support our own response, at: https://form.jotformeu.com/72414105693352. Follow the on-screen instructions to submit a response direct to the Welsh Government by midnight 30 Sep (or if you’d prefer an editable Word version, contact me for a copy). The more responses they receive, the better – so please do it now! And encourage all your paddling friends to do the same! For those of you who want to see all the detail, the draft of our full response (to which we expect to add a bit more detail between now and the 30 Sep deadline) is attached. Thanks again, Steve Rayner OBE Waterways & Environment Officer DRAFT v2_0 Canoe Wales & British Canoeing response to Welsh Government Consultation