We will be having a boat based litter pick on the Canal to celebrate World Rivers Day. 12 noon to 2pm. All welcome to join in the fun. Litter pickers provided.

Our Annual General Meeting will be at our usual venue of Frimley Baptist Church. Due to a scheduling conflict, we have had to move the date to Friday 16th November (a week earlier than previously announced).

The evening will contain the usual mix of club updates and resolutions to vote on, before culminating in our highly-coveted awards presentation.

If you’re unable to attend, please can you let Matt Tichbon know.

Bookings are now being taken for this year’s club Christmas meal – full menu here.

Two courses £14.80 / Three courses £18.80

Arrival from 7 PM for a 7:30 PM start.  Contact Liz to reserve your place today.

Saturday 13 April, 7pm until 10pm – Quiz and Chips!  At the Canal Centre, Mytchett.  This will test your general knowledge, that of the Canal, and maybe some questions on the club.  £5 per person, to cover your fish and chips and soft drinks. Book online at Eventbrite.  Feel free to bring your own drinks.

Saturday 27th April, 10am onwards – Barn Spring Clean.  All hands welcome, even if you can only spare half an hour.  The Barn has suffered over the last year while we have concentrated on the new cabin.  It’s desperately in need of a spruce up.  We’d also like to clear as much space on the right hand side of the barn so that we can install some cushion matting and a bit of a gym.  Strategically planned for after the usual hare and hounds.  Contact:  Bill Hansell

Saturday 27 April, 10am – B3C Elimination Race.  We’ve all seen the cyclists do it, where the final racer at the end of each lap is eliminated!  The B3C race will have a shorter course for GP/Tourer and a longer course for racers, but all on the water at the same time in the same event.  This event is free, with tea and toast in the clubhouse after. More details to follow. Again book online at Eventbrite.  Contact:  Pina Napolitano

Got an idea for a trip? Want to organise one? Our next trips meeting will be at Paul’s house. If you can’t make it please do contribute your ideas by email beforehand. Contact Paul Jeffs for more information. Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be provided.

Saturday 20 July, from 10:45am – B3C Summer Shindig!  This 40^th Anniversary Shindig will hopefully be the biggest yet!  Taking place after the Hare and Hounds (do come down and give it a go), this will be a celebration of the club over its 40 years. BBQ and on/off water games as usual, and hopefully an opportunity to get all our club boats on the water at once!  If you’d like to volunteer to help with this event, please let me know.  We are very much hoping to have many of our founder members attending, so put this date in your diary now!

Take up your paddles…take up the challenge!

Put the date in your diary now! Back by popular demand – the same course this year.

Did you take the 9th Charles Hicks challenge? Whether you did or you didn’t, you need to take up the 10th challenge this time around!  Bring your friends and family too.  Lots of portaging.  Great early practice for the 2020 Devizes to Westminster race. Start and finish at the same place.  Really good paddlers food.

Please note that refunds will be available if the event is cancelled for any reason.

Course between 13 and 14 miles

Tons of portage practice

Open to canoes and kayaks, singles and doubles, juniors, seniors and veterans.

An experience very similar to the Kennet and Avon section of the Devises to Westminster race

See the draft route below.

Take up your paddles…take up the challenge!

Download all you need here:

Buy Tickets | Route Map | Directions to Event

Your chance to help us plan the river and sea trips that you want for Winter 2019, Spring 2020 and possibly beyond. Come along with ideas for trips you would like like to participate in and/or organise too and we’ll see what we can add to the calendar. We need volunteers to organise trips but you don’t always need to be a coach or leader to do the organising as we can try and help arrange appropriate leading or coaching!! If you can’t make it please email Paul in advance of the meeting with your ideas and offers!

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. For more information and location, contact Paul Jeffs.

BBQ All members welcome. Bring your own food to bbq.

Chris Williams would like to share how to plan trips involving tides and some basic weather fundamentals so as to better analyze what the weather forecasts are trying to tell us.

Chris has been a Yacht Master for many years and has planned many of our sea trips including Isle of Wight via the Forts, and via the Needles, Berry Head,  Portsea Island to name but a few.

numbers are limited to 30.

Let Rick Covell know if you want to go. Rick.covell@ntlworld.com

We will be holding our annual summer event at the barn Saturday 6 August between 11.30am and 3pm.

Please bring your own picnic/BBQ food together with drinks and something comfortable to sit on. There will be free bacon rolls available from around 11.30 on a first come, first served basis, and then the BBQ will be available should you wish to use it. Fun and games are planned for after lunch!

This is a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and to make new ones in an informal setting. We look forward to seeing you.

We propose to hold this year’s Spooky Paddle on Saturday, 29 October.  Meet at the barn at 6pm spookily dressed and chosen craft decorated.  There will be a short paddle In the dark accompanied by suitably spooky music.  Once everything has been returned to the barn there will be a themed supper in the Canal Centre function room.

Annual General Meeting 

The AGM will be held on Friday 18 November 2021 at The Frimley Green Club.  

To register your attendance and to purchase a buffet ticket, please click here

The timings will be:

Normal AGM ceremony:  7:00pm to 8:00pm

Buffet: 8:30pm onwards

There will be a full pay bar available.

If you would like to have some food from the buffet, there will be a cost of £5 per person (drinks not included).

Enquiries or questions to B3CSecretary@gmail.com.

See the BCCC Website for all the details and documents associated with the AGM

Meet at 9.30 am at the boathouse for a short paddle along the canal.  Land at the ‘beach’, help Brian set up his tarp and Kelly Kettle, have a brew up and any nibbles you happen to bring along, paddle back to the boathouse.

River Beaulieu from lepe Country park and return. great day out. let me know if you want to go. Rick Covell

As Part of the British Canoe Great Paddle Clean up we will be going out on the water to collect as much rubbish as we can find.

An evening paddle, 22nd June, on the Wey doing the Guildford Loop either from Broadford Rd or Dapdune wharf at 6pm. Transport for kayaks and kit can be provided. paddle length is approx 5 miles and we should be off the water by 9:30. if you cant make the barn at 4:30pm to load, but can make the launch point by 6pm, talk to me. please book your place using Spond https://group.spond.com/CFYPF

9:30 for 10:00 on the water

social paddle with other club members tends to finish with coffee at the cafe

17:30 for 18:00 on the water

a chance to practice all those things learnt on a course such as edging, drawing, stern rudders, bow rudders, generally improving your boat handling and paddling better faster stronger, getting ready for the longer more exciting trips

9:30 for 10:00 on the water

A social paddle on the canal with other club members, good place to ask questions about equipment, technique or places to go.

9:30 for 10:00 on the water

social paddle with other club members tends to finish with coffee at the cafe

17:30 for 18:00 on the water

a chance to practice all those things learnt on a course such as edging, drawing, stern rudders, bow rudders, generally improving your boat handling and paddling better faster stronger, getting ready for the longer more exciting trips

B3C summer trip 2023, Friday 8^th September pm to Sunday 10^th September pm.

Paddle the River Medway from Tonbridge to Maidstone over 2 days with 2 nights camping.  A gentle 29km paddle with a few locks and some canoe shoots for those who wish to try them .

We plan to camp Friday night, paddle Saturday and Sunday and return home Sunday pm.  Drive time to the camp site near Yalding is just 1.5 hours, so suitable for after work on the Friday night. This will be an out and return Shuttle both days from the campsite so we will not be kayaking with all the camping gear.

Please let us know if you are interested so we can advise the camp site of numbers.

Any questions please call Rick.

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The River Medway is a major river in the South East of England in the county of Kent. Stretching from High Weald in Sussex, through Tonbridge and Maidstone, the river ends where it meets the Thames estuary near Sheerness.

It is an ideal touring adventure. Great for recreational users and those looking for multi day-trips. It has some gentle grade 1 rapids but otherwise the river is a lovely flat, green wilderness paddle.

The River Medway is a popular river for canoeing. The river has a length of 120 kilometres, but the navigable non-tidal part runs from Tonbridge to Maidstone and has a length of 29 km, the Medway Canoe Trail. From Tonbridge you can make an extra round trip of 4 km upstream. This round is very popular by local people. You can paddle the full 29 km in one day, but most people do it in 2 days and camp on the way.

9:30 for 10:00 on the water

A social paddle on the canal with other club members, good place to ask questions about equipment, technique or places to go.

9:30 for 10:00 on the water

social paddle with other club members tends to finish with coffee at the cafe

17:30 for 18:00 on the water

a chance to practice all those things learnt on a course such as edging, drawing, stern rudders, bow rudders, generally improving your boat handling and paddling better faster stronger, getting ready for the longer more exciting trips