9 Results for month: 04/2012
Mags, Judy, Lynn, Roz, Steph, Sue P-J, John, Aly, Nick, Muku and Tony bravely arrived for an evening paddle. In spite of a not very promising forecast we were lucky as the rain had stopped and the wind had dropped.
Tony took us through different levels of paddling as we skirted the northern part of Windermere. We ...
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Mags makes further progress on the 'Lancaster' dragon head.
Mags says... "Just thought I'd plough on with our head as I was lucky enough to come across some of the paper rope in a charity shop in Lancaster yesterday! I've used the 'paper rope' as detail on the head (& eyebrows) and fixed it using a glue gun, and I ...
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Paddlers for life, Windermere have been chosen as one of the special focus crews in the Jubilee Pageant television coverage.
A production team, Anya, Simon and Simon, visited today to film paddlers in their preparations for the Pageant.
This included filming Artemis Diana and her crew as Keni took them through some ...
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Yet another layer of paper on the dragon head and a preparatory couple of coats of emulsion paint and the dragon head is ready for its final phase of preparation when it will be painted in its resplendent livery.
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A fantastic flotilla workout!
What a fabulous day of paddling.
Both Artemis and Lucy went on an extended journey across Windermere as paddlers trained for the Jubilee Pageant.
We took a similar route to wednesday's paddle but extended it further south to Thompson's Holme, an island near Bowness. This added a mile to the ...
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Paul helmed Artemis Diana and took us on a 6 mile tour of the northern Windermere.
We had a slightly choppy crossing to Wray Castle's Low Wray Bay. We were next heading south in much calmer water across High Wray Bay before heading onwards across Belle Grange bay and past Bass Rock. Then a little further towards Slape ...
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Another active day of paddling in preparation for the Pageant.
There were visitors from Perth, Australia, Worcester Busters as well as members' friends so Artemis Diana was easy to fill.
Peter helmed the boat through calmer waters in the morning but the wind picked up and the temperature dropped in the afternoon. ...
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John and Elaine Parkinson from Upfront Gallery, Unthank, near Penrith 'dotted the eyes' of Artemis Diana today. John ran the dragon workshop for us and Elaine did the catering. John, as a cancer survivor, dotted the eyes of Artemis Diana.
Barbara, our trustee and treasurer lent a hand.
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First day of our fifth season in the Chinese Year of the Dragon, in the Element of Water.
We could not have asked for a better day to start our paddling season.
Windermere was nearly calm in the morning and twenty paddlers arrived promptly ...
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