LCC Santa Dash / Santa Splash Paddle Sunday 4th December And so the festivities begin…. The intrepid paddlers met at the compound to decorate their boats and wear festive hats. The main group set off, with the junior paddlers with Jim. We docked at the Canal and River Trust pontoon where plenty of Santa’s were enjoying themselves, having a go at paddling rafted-up canoes. We enjoyed the warming hot chocolate… Read More »LCC Santa Dash / Santa Splash Paddle Sunday 4th December by Amy Newnham

An Inland Adventure: 200 miles along the Welsh Marches A couple of months ago, Liverpool Canoe Club members Linda Smith and Andy Garland set off on an adventure. They paddled the length of Wales along the England-Wales border. They sent us over this report to give us a flavour of how they planned, any issues they faced, and how it all went. In May 2022 we embarked upon a trip… Read More »An Inland Adventure: 200 miles along the Welsh Marches

River Banwy Open Canoe Trip Sunday 13th November Martin and Nikki suggested an open canoe trip on the Sunday and 7 of us met up at Costa Coffee at Ruabon. We discussed the options of which river to paddle; Conwy too short, Dee too well known, Banwy was a good option, especially as Martin assured us it would have plenty of water in it. We set off for deepest Wales… Read More »River Banwy Open Canoe Trip Sunday 13th November

Kayaking and gymnastics. Last weekend saw Liverpool canoe club back up in Teeside staying at Langdon Beck. It has been a while since we were last here and good to get back. The weather was typical for the time of year, dark, dull and miserable but wet which is always good when kayaking. People arrived on Friday evening and the group stayed in the hostel, we made a plan to… Read More »River Tees WW Weekend by John Cooke

River Severn Trip by Carl Leungs 7 members of the club including one member from Wolverhampton made the effort to paddle the 12 miles flat moving water stretch of the river Severn everyone arrived at the agreed time of 9 am after unloading the boat and getting dressed ready to paddle we did the short shuttle to Frankwell car park. SJust as we were ready to get on the water… Read More »River Severn Trip by Carl Leungs

Shropshire Union Canal by John Fay After a paddle from Leasowe Bay to New Brighton and back on our paddle boards with Ben in his kayak we decided to do a sneaky 8-mile paddle on the Shropshire Union Canal. We started at the Ellesmere Boat Museum and returned some hours later at 7pm in the dark.

  Link to video…. Good little trip out with the juniors to Chester weir, everyone seemed to enjoy the experience and well done to all the juniors for attempting the fish ladders. Think the youngest on the trip was 7/8 yrs old. Hopefully we can organise a few more trips in the not to distant future.   We started at Sandy Lane and paddled down to the weir looking at… Read More »Junior Club Trip to Chester Weir from Sandy Lane by John Cooke

Sunday 23rd October – Sea Paddle – Trefor to Porth Dinllaen by Ian Crook Ian Bell Chris Bolton David Gould Andrew Garland Catriona Hare Adya Misra Kris D’Aout Phil Lloyd Ian Crook This trip began with a last-minute email from Ian Bell proposing an ‘Intermittent Sea Kayak Trip’.  Being relatively new to paddling, I thought I’d come along and see what this style of kayaking was all about.  Perhaps I’d… Read More »Sunday 23rd October – Sea Paddle – Trefor to Porth Dinllaen by Ian Crook

Write Up of The Last Junior Docks Session by Richard Clews While it started off a bit cold and cloudy, fortunately the sun did decide to appear for our last regular Junior session at the docks. A big group of 30 paddlers, we headed to the other end of Coburg for some races, before paddling down to the Albert Dock, giving the tourists on the restaurant boats a good wave… Read More »Write Up of The Last Junior Docks Session by Richard Clews

Leeds to Liverpool Canal Trip by John Fay A great paddle organised by Dave Hendry. A mix of crafts set off from the Ring o Bells pub and paddled to the Appley Bridge lock where we stopped for lunch. The return trip was done leisurely by most whilst Mick moved a little quicker trying to get warm after his post lunch dip. A great day with great company and lots… Read More »Leeds to Liverpool Canal Trip by John Fay