Brockwell Lido Session Brilliant Springtime evening sunshine welcomed us out onto the lido, beautifully vibrant and blue after its recent renovation. The water was cool, but inviting, and Tom jumped straight in for a swim before we started. We all Read more…
Hayling Island Circumnavigation As if one day of paddling in the wind and rain on the South Coast wasn’t enough, Rob, Richard Bate and I stuck around for a second day of paddling, joined at the last minute by Fiona. Read more…
Langstone Harbour Skills Day (and swimming with Mulberries) Eight of us (Philippe, Tom, Neil, Rob, Noakesy, Miranda, Toons and Richard B) made it down to Hayling Island for a skills day in Langstone Harbour on Saturday 5 May, organised by Read more…
Yesterday, three intrepid CKC members put themselves up for the endurance paddle of 26.2 miles in the London Kayakathon 2012 for charity; Ann Gales, David McCormick and John Mayne. This year there were just under a hundred sea kayaks that Read more…
2012! An exciting year to be in London. The long awaited Olympic Games are now 200 days away. The second longest serving British monarch (after Queen Victoria, as you ask) will be having her Diamond Jubilee. This will include a Read more…
There is a very exciting date in the kayaking calender – The London Kayakathon – which is taking place on Sunday 22 April 2012, or if you’re really keen and counting down… 100 days from today. This is the same Read more…
33 CKC members and partners congregated together at the Hurlingham Yacht Club on a clear crisp Friday night to celebrate its second Christmas together. Thanks to Richard Bate bringing along a last minute extension cable we were up and running Read more…
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog, but last night’s marvellous paddle deserves one. Four foreigners: A Jerseyman, an Irishman, a Frenchman and a Danishwoman. Three days to spring tides: LW at 7.30 p.m. Two leaders. One howling Read more…
Ok so we are mostly a kayak club. Chelsea Kayak Club. And we are mostly a sea kayak club. Chelsea Kayak Club. Does what it says on the tin, innit. But we do say we are London’s only paddlesport club devoted to Read more…
9 (Instead of 11) Paddle Sardinia Sitting at my desk, nursing a lemsip, reflecting on the first really chilly London day in December, I could swear that today, it actually started getting dark before it got light. It is therefore Read more…