Summer’s here. It’s a brilliant bright sunny day and the kayaks are out on the Thames. Six boats departed Kew on the ebbing tide. A short stop in Battersea and Fiona joined the gang, then off again. We headed through Westminster as the tide was almost out. The absence of Read more…
Done some work on the site. Optimised the google and bing trawling, they were killing us with requests Database optimisation work Upgraded the server, now twice as much memory as before. Done some additional page caching work What does this mean? Hopefully the website will be faster. If you notice Read more…
You may have noticed a little downtime today. I’ve updated our webserver so it instructs your browser to cache more of the site and for longer. Sorry for any trouble and hopefully you’ll see a slightly faster site. For anyone that’s interested I enabled some apache mods, see more here.
Recently my VHF radio stopped charging. The charger flashed orange when the handset was put in to charge and after a 4 hours had not charged at all. UK Rivers Guide to the rescue again. The flashing orange means there is a charging error (not actually made clear in user Read more…
2nd March 2011 Last night the Club held it’s first AGM at the Horse and Groom Pub in Belgravia (watch out for the minutes) – a reasonable turnout for a cold Tuesday night and attendees reflected on the story of the Club so far – it really is hard to believe that Chelsea has Read more…
In addition to the circumnavigation of Hayling Island, last weekend the Club also organized a 2 Star Training / Assessment Weekend at Thames Ditton Reach for seven of its members – Paul, Marina, Geoff, Stu, Kate, Rob, and Manda. Coaching was provided by Alan Pearson and Phil. Paul Sardar and Marina de Stacpoole Read more…
Simon Willis posts an article on SMS safety procedures and registering your mobile with the emergency services. While you’re there have a look around the site, it’s great. http://simon-willis.blogspot.com/2010/11/emergency-text-procedure-for-kayakers.html. Toons
The December 2010 edition of Canoe and Kayak Magazine is just out and CKC is this months Club Scene feature. The feature gives a great overview of what the Club is about and includes a view from the Chair (Andy), a good selection of photos, and quotes from a few Read more…
I was chatting with a member of the club last night, discussing rolling. “I can’t roll” “Well next time we’re in the pool, we can start learning the pawlata” “Oh I can do a pawlata” It’s a very misunderstood roll as it’s often the first roll anyone learns. There is Read more…
On a perfect summers day in London, Phil and Jacqui took a group of 6 (mostly beginner) girls out on Wimbledon Park Lake to teach us how to paddle! We had all listened to Jacqui tell us how much fun it was for so long that we thought we’d better Read more…