A reminder that the club pool sessions start again on Thursday 5th Sept at Pontefract and Friday 6th Sept at Batley.
Pontefract
Time: Thursdays, 8:15pm to 9:30pm
Batley
Time: Fridays, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Both pool sessions are an ideal opportunity to practice your skills or learn to kayak in clean, warm water.
Details of the West Tanfield Slalom Event for 2013, organised and run by WYCC, are now available here including entry prices etc.
West Tanfield Slalom – Paddler info
Sowerby Bridge paddle this Friday at 6pm. Meet in the usual market car park.
Please let Andy Walker (07748 111819) know if you require gear as soon as possible. His email is: ukprojects@talktalk.net
Apologies for the short notice but Andy Walker is planning a paddle tomorrow (Fri 2nd Aug), at Sowerby Bridge.
Please let Andy know if you fancy a paddle.
Meet up time is 18:00 – 18:30 ish at the market car park in Sowerby. Please let him know ASAP by text/mobile 07748 111819 or Facebook if you plan to go.
Members of WYCC will be attending the Washburn release on 24th July, starting at 4:30pm with the water running until 8:30pm.
If you fancy coming along and are a confident paddler, you are most welcome to join us.
Hopefully we’ll see some of you there.
There’s very little water in the rivers at the moment and the weather is forecast to be hot all next week too, so the rivers are going to be even lower unfortunately.
Rather than cancel a paddling opportunity, we thought it might be a good idea to have an evening session on Pugneys to cool down instead after work/school. This will be followed by a trip across the road to the pub for those who fancy it, to relax and cool down even further.
Meet up time is 18:30 at Pugneys car park – if you’re late, don’t worry as you’ll be able to spot us whizzing around in our playboats and what not.
Worth noting too that you don’t need a parking permit after 18:00 as it’s free to park. However, we will have to pay the usual Pugneys fee as the club in turn has to pay Pugneys for the number on paddlers on the lake.
Hopefully we’ll see some of you there…
Cheers,
Tony.
Following the success of last years session Steve Thorley-Lawson will be running the session again this year. The session will be based on dry land at Thornes park.
The aim is to improve your rope skills and will include throwline techniques, knot tying, recover lines and the use of pulleys.
Please bring along any kit you have bought, throwlines, carabiners etc, even if you are not sure how to use.
The only prerequisite is that you can tie your own shoe laces.
Meet up time is 6:30pm in the car park at Thornes Park Athletic track.
Please let Steve Thorley-Lawson (sthorleyla@aol.com or 07857 378137) know if you intend coming along so we can make sure we have enough kit.
