Club Calendar

 Our 2018 Summer Shindig will be taking place at the boathouse in Mytchett.  Come on down from 1200 for a BBQ and then enjoy some fun and games in boats after lunch.  The BBQ cost is £5 per family – if planning on attending, please contact James Freemantle so that he knows how many people are coming.

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 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!

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A British Canoeing video crew will be onsite on Saturday 7th March to shoot a short profile of our club.  This will be shown at the BC awards night, where we will be awarded Volunteers Club of the Year. To make the best impression, we need as many people on the water as possible.  Please put this date in your diary and do plan on putting a boat on the water at the club on the 7th. Our award celebrates the breadth of disciplines we offer, so any boat type that you are competent to paddle would be much appreciated.  Session organisers… if there is any possibility that you could do a special/extra session on 7th March, that would also be very much appreciated (let me know if you are planning something).  Club colours if you possess them would also be highly desirable.  9.30am is our usual start time but feel free to turn up later if that’s more palatable.

If you want to be on the water on the 7th but do not wish to be included in the video, please let me know.

Bill

Path Project Working Party We have scheduled a date of Saturday16th October 2021 (after the Hare and Hounds) to construct a path extension between the bin store and the barn hard standing.  This project will be very good for winter access to the club and generally will save the grass area from damage when it is very wet. We need (in this order): You Your Spade (and shovel if you have one) Your wheelbarrow (if you have one). Lunch will be provided for all those that help out.  This is certainly a job where the more people that help out the merrier.  We will be digging the path out to a depth of 200mm, barrowing the soil away and backfilling with a self-binding material variously called MOT or hogging. You would be welcome on the day, but so we have a handle on lunch, please volunteer via email or speak to me, BIll Hansell.