LCC Rolling Competition Round 3 Monday 12th December The next two weeks will count towards the Annual Christmas Rolling competition. You have 30 seconds to do as many full 360-degree rotations as possible either with the paddle, side of the pool or with your hands. Paddle Rolls: No. Side or Bank Rolls: No. Hand Rolls: No. Keith S 8 Keith S 10 Harvey H 5 Stuart C 5 Harvey H… Read More »LCC Rolling Competition Round 3 Monday 12th December
LIVERPOOL CANOE CLUB CHRISTMAS PADDLE 11.12.22 A SHORT FILM Director: Brian Green. Script: Paul Goetzee. Cast: Thousands. FADE IN : EXT. A55 – MORNING A winter wonderland of white fields and snow-laden trees and occasional freezing fog. Five V-shaped squadrons of Canada geese flying in from the colder north: Scandanavia, Russia, Canada even? Not much traffic. It’s Sunday 7.30am. Cut to: EXT. CAR PARK, CONWY – MORNING Bitterly cold, as… Read More »LCC XMAS PADDLE 11TH DECEMBER 2022 by Paul Goetzee
LCC Rolling Competition Round 2 Thursday 8th December The next two weeks will count towards the Annual Christmas Rolling competition. You have 30 seconds to do as many full 360-degree rotations as possible either with the paddle, side of the pool or with your hands. To book for Monday click here…….. Paddle Rolls: No. Side or Bank Rolls: No. Hand Rolls: No. Keith S 8 Keith S 10 Harvey… Read More »LCC Rolling Competition Round 2 Thursday 8th December
LCC Rolling Competition Round 1 Monday 5th December The next two weeks will count towards the Annual Christmas Rolling competition. You have 30 seconds to do as many full 360-degree rotations as possible either with the paddle, side of the pool or with your hands. Paddle Rolls: No. Side or Bank Rolls: No. Hand Rolls: No. Keith S 8 Keith S 10 Harvey H 5 Stuart C 5 Harvey… Read More »LCC Rolling Competition Round 1 Monday 5th December
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.
