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Dates for your diary

by Alan P 0 Comments

Some dates for your diary of upcoming events:

Fri 10th May Movie night on the water JAWS!

Sun 19th May Hasler Race

Fri 24th May AGM

Fri 21st June/Sat 22nd June Midsummer night paddle /cocktails/campout for those wanting to stay over

Fri 5th July/Sat 6th/Sun 7th 60th celebration weekend camping/ Treasure Hunt and 60th meal Saturday / Up with the lark paddle Sunday morning.

Tues 10th Sept Awards night

Tues 8th October 6pm RNLI fish supper

Sat19th Oct/Sun20th Oct Steampunk festival in Chippenham, might decorate boats & have a paddle to coincide

Sat 3rd or 10th Nov  Spuds and sparklers

Tues 17th December 6pm Santa Night paddle

Posters and more details to these events will be given out nearer the dates.

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Devizes Canoe Club Hasler Test Race

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Devizes Canoe Club Hasler Test Race
19th May 2019

Hosted by Chippenham Sailing and Canoe Club

Chippenham Sailing and Canoe Club, Long Close, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3JY (51.4543042, -2.1038792)

The South West Region Hasler preparation race (Class B) will be run to BC Hasler series rules.  No Hasler or Lightening series points will be awarded so rankings will not be affected.

CSCC (Long Close) is just off the A4 London Road, on the east side of Chippenham – follow signs for the Canoe Race car parking in the field adjacent to the club; courtesy of Chippenham Sea Cadets.

Classes:

  • Division 1, 2 & 3 (12 miles)
  • Division 4, 5 & 6 (8 miles)
  • Division 7, 8, 9 & 10 (4 miles)
  • Open class – Fun race (1.8 miles, open to all types of kayak, canoe, surf-ski, SUP, etc)

Timetable:

  • Booking from 09:00. Individual booking is permitted. Club Team Leaders will be given priority.
  • Lightning and Hody K2 race 10:30 (briefing 10:00)
  • Open class 10:40 (briefing 10:00)
  • Divisional Race starts 11:45 at approx 1 min intervals (briefing 11:30)

Fees:

  • Juniors £4 per seat.
  • Seniors £9 per seat.
  • Lightning / Fun Race £4 per seat.
  • Seniors or non-club member juniors without BCU or CRT license will need to purchase a BCU day ticket at £5

Number Boards:

Number boards will be supplied (£5 fee applies if number board not returned)

Pre-Entries:

To be received by Friday 17th May at the latest, Payable to Devizes Canoe Club C/O Ann Slator, Devizes Canoe Club, 2 Forest Lane, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QU.

Safety Rules:

Bouyancy aids to be worn by all Division 7, 8, 9, 10, Lightning and Open class paddlers.  Paddlers in the Lightning races must paddle Lightning’s and not any other type of craft.

Facilities and Refreshments:

Toilets and showers are available.
Hot and cold drinks and light refreshments available.  Paddlers food inclusive in entry fee.

Results:

Marathon Racing Canoe page on Facebook and website or www.devizescanoeclub.co.uk

Entry Form

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Season Opener Paddle

by Alan P 0 Comments

A gentle get together paddle, to start the season off, for all abilities, juniors accompanied please. Arrive early to sort boats out and get on the water by 6.30.
Followed by a fish and chip supper ordered in advance form the chippy, Julie will collect orders before we set off.
Info from Julie – [email protected]

Julie has arranged for our fish and chip order to be delivered direct to the club on Tuesday evening approx 7.30 pm . This means Julie needs to place the order and pay for it in advance on Monday night. To keep it simple the menu will be as follows they kindly said we can have
Fish & chips for special deal £4.75 .
Bag of chips £1.80 . Sausage 85p
Pies ( steak&kidney , chicken&mushroom, cheese&onion) £3.25

So options are basically fish & chips, pie& chips, sausage& chips or bag of chips ! You don’t have to order food can still join us after our paddle but you’ll have to excuse us eating in front of you! Please can you let Julie have your orders by Monday afternoon and any orders placed will have to be paid for regardless of you not being able to come on the night. Thanks Julie

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Knots and Nibbles

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KNOTS AND NIBBLES

Friday 12th April 2019

An evening of learning a few basic knots and a social.
7pm for 7.30pm start.

Please bring a plate of party food, wine etc.

LIMITED SPACES.

Please contact Jane Allen via the contact form or Facebook.

Numbers by 10th April Please. First come, first served basis.
Get to know some new club members while improving your boating knowledge.

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Christmas Paddle!

by ewan_c 0 Comments
The Christmas paddle is of course weather dependent, and a decision will take place on the day, and choice of craft to go out. However that doesn’t stop us having a good evening in the club house. If any one want to bring an instrument to help the carol singing along please do.

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Spuds & Sparklers and our Upcoming working party

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We hope everyone has had a good Summer season and is looking forward to the Winter Paddling season whether they are going to be running white water rivers or going our for some refreshing early morning paddles! We have a couple of event announcements that can be seen below.

The 2018 Spuds and Sparklers evening is on the 3rd November.
This is a great event, bring the family and any friends too.

Watch the Monkton Park firework display reflected in the river from our veranda

With a real bonfire to toast marshmallows on.

Booking is essential please, I have to order the spuds – This can be done by contacting us on [email protected]

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Alongside our announcement of spuds and sparklers comes us getting a new storage container to store kayaks in, this will make room for our newly purchased kayaks.

At the next working party we will be needing to prepare the land that the container is going to be situated on. Please see the below image for details about the working party.

Thank you to all the hard work put in by all of our volunteers and committee members and we look forward to seeing some of you at our upcoming events.

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Our first Winter/Autumn Social!

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On Friday 12th at October 6pm CSCC are having a Social evening in line with our policy of keeping up events throughout the winter months.
Join us for a bit with a bit of crafty fun (very easy) a scrummy fish meal and a good chat and catch up.

If the weather is good then a short paddle first to work up an appetite.

This is an RNLI event we are signed up or it so really want it to be well attended.
Link to the RNLI https://rnli.org/fish-supper

Price of £6 is to include a contribution to the RNLI.
Although we are only a river club, many of us use our coastal waters, it is a very worthy charity, so feel free to contribute any more pennies to our collection.

Usual plea for numbers to the event for catering purposes.

Contact Meryl (07929971447)or Julie or post on FB and [email protected]

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Wombles 50th Anniversary Paddle & Roast Dinner

by Alan P 0 Comments

This is short notice but after the success of Mark’s roast lunch recently we thought it would be great to repeat it while the weather is still warm.

The RYA has put out a call to all clubs for members to take to their tenders and dinghies this weekend and have a shore and marina clean up, extending it to rivers as it all ends in the sea.

This year has had a huge wake up call concerning rubbish in the sea, plastics in particular, we can do our bit in a small way.
Hope to see lots join in, and Mark’s dinners are a must.

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Events Update

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Thursday 23rd Aug 6pm –Tails of the River bank – Postponed until Tuesday 11th September!

Tuesday 11th Sept – Tails of the River Bank followed by AWARDS night – a paddle to find different pictures of tails that are floating in the river and identify them. Can dress up as tales of riverbank characters?

This will be followed by the awards evening – if you have been on a course (even if a non-member) we encourage you to attend as you will be awarded a certificate and where applicable the relevant star award form.

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