After many hours sitting in the same position in your kayak, best practice recommends you take a break, walk around and stretch your legs. CKC, in our usual style, took this advice one jump further on our recent visit to the Ardnamurchan peninsula… After and open crossing to Tobermory on Read more…
Keen to make the most of our fleet of nine sea kayaks – and always conscious of the environment – we wanted to start reducing the number of cars going on long-haul club trips and expeditions. The simplest way to achieve this was to invest in our very own boat-trailer. Read more…
Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May 2011 Warning : wild, windy weather whips wind-chill warmth waywardly Westward!!! Now that’s out in the open let’s move swiftly on… So, who was there? Fiona, Judes, Stu, Izzy, Jonathon, Alan, Gieve and me as 3 Star Sea aspirants and Kate for a refresher. Read more…
Saturday 21st May 2011 Five CKC kayakers (Miranda, Toons, Jacquelin, Phil and I) loaded up at Cremorne and headed off for Lymington on Saturday 21 May. It was easy to find Richard B in the car park because he had left a kayak on his roof. The weather forecast indicated Read more…
Sunday 15th May The Club along with many other clubs and individual paddlers took part in a joint RSPB /Canoe England paddle around Wallasea Island in Essex on Sunday 15th May. Wallasea Island is bound to the north by the River Crouch estuary, to the south east by the River Roach estuary, Read more…
This month’s issue of Canoe & Kayak UK magazine is dedicated to sea kayaking, something close to the heart of all Chelsea Kayak Club members – and is jam packed to overflowing with features, trip suggestions and tips – so much so, there’s a 24 page mini-mag pull out. What 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…
26th March 2011 On the 26th March we set off for the inaugural Chelsea/Battersea joint surfing trip. Heading off to the Gower we were not expecting much action; Magic Seaweed was predicting almost no surf. But it just goes to show, you’ve got to give it a go. Our first 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…