To help celebrate the British Canoe Union being in its 75th year, the Club teamed up with Kayaking London and Friends of Cremorne Riverside to host an open day during ‘Go Canoeing Week’ on Sunday 8 May. The day was a great success, lots of people rocked up to Read more…
Jacks of all trades – getting ready for a Royal Wedding Paddle Groovy-baby! With the help of Katie W and Richard H, I was able to turn our two Atlantic’s into a couple of floating Union Jack’s that would make Austin Powers weep with envy. These boats have been made Read more…
Sunday 10th April 2011 Always up for an interesting paddle and to push our kayaking skills, we arranged for the club to head out to sea for a few miles in search of a wind farm, off the Kent coast at Herne Bay. We found it, along with the upper Read more…
18th to 20th March 2011 We finally made it over to Pembrokeshire after what seemed like an impossible trip to organise. Nobody could agree on dates before Christmas and once a date in January had been agreed could you believe it we had to postpone it because the weather was 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…
Hello all A big thank you to those who came along on Friday night and supported the joint Battersea Canoe Club / Chelsea Kayak Club Christmas party. I certainly enjoyed myself very much and there was a very nice atmosphere. In addition to the standard fare of music, drink and food Read more…
Simon Willis is a British journalist who has been doing Podcasting interviews with Sea Kayakers about expeditions, favourite routes and issues of interest at SeaKayakRoutes.com andSeaKayakPodcasts.com since 2006. He popped down for a paddle with Cremorne Riverside recently – check out his blog at: http://simon-willis.blogspot.com/2010/11/sea-kayaking-on-river-thames.html Also download a podcast of Simon’s interview Read more…
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…
1. Learning about birds (Hey, what’s that bird? A cormorant. Ah, right. And that one over there? Hmm, I’m going to go with ‘a bird’.) 2. Great company* 3. Houses of Parliament glowing pinkish-gold in the setting sun 4. Wildlife at it’s best – ringside seats to a cormorant tussling Read more…
Sunday 25th July 2010 10 of us headed down to the Kent coast for the Club’s first local sea trip today. We were all pretty surprised to discover just how accessible a one-day, low hassle, low cost sea kayaking trip really is – on the actual sea!!! It is indeed Read more…