Symposiums
Anglesey Sea Symposium
2nd – 9th May 2010 Ok – this was not my first sea symposium, not by a long way. I’ve been at three in Ireland, back in the early days: Connemara, Donegal and Ballycastle. All good fun, but the nearest Read more…
Blog
Cremorne
An Inspiration To Us All
Some of Cremorne’s Over 60’s Kayak Group, took part last weekend in the London Kayakathon. With a combined age of 136 years, and only 2 years paddling experience, “The Chelsea Coffin Dodgers” paddled 26.2 miles in a double sea kayak and raised Read more…
Club
Easy Like Thursday Evening
Thursday 29th April 2010 Our smallest group yet – Phil, Andy, Tim and guest Judy Armstrong, all the way from Stellenbosch, South Africa, via Southfields. Pleasant weather and a strong ebb tide saw us go up river. The idea was Read more…
Club
CKC Goes East
Sunday 18th April 2010 A cracking paddle on Sunday 18th April. Taking advantage of the Centre Manager’s generous offer to use Cremorne when there are no youth groups in, we assembled at 11:30. There had been some mention of towing a Read more…
Open Canoeing
Path Of The Paddle
Sunday 11th April 2010 I was part of a small group that headed over to Shepperton Lock today for a paddle of the single bladed variety. Not to be confused with kayaking (its closed deck relative), canoeing (or open boating as Read more…
Club
April Tool
Thursday 1st April 2010 This morning the ‘club clown’ sent out a rather plausible April Fool’s email to everyone letting us all know that “for circumstances out of our control” we’d no longer be able to paddle in sea kayaks with the Read more…
Club
Agreement Signed With The Royal Borough
Wednesday 31st March 2010 I’m very pleased to say that all the wait has been worth it. Our agreement with the Royal Borough was signed last night and we gave over our access fee. This will give us access to the Read more…
Club
Lights Up!
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 Some of us from CKC attended a get together of local clubs on Tuesday night to test and compare a number of lights/ torches that paddlers are using for after dark Tideway paddling. Representatives from the Read more…
Club
Maiden Voyage
Thursday 11th March 2010 Tonight was the night – the maiden voyage, so to speak, of Chelsea Kayak Club on what will become our ‘home turf’ – padding on a flood tide, it’s from Chelsea Wharf outbound along the Thames Read more…