38 Results for year: 2013
Paddlers for Life, Windermere took both of their newly cleaned, oiled and waxed dragon boats, (by Bill), to put them through their paces at Ambleside YHA's open day.
As you can see from the above photo it was challenging work!
The wind was quite strong at times so the two races between the boats in the afternoon ...
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Keni stayed and coached again for the last of the August Evening Paddling sessions.
These evening paddling sessions have had beautiful conditions that really show off the beauty of where we paddle. Keni built on the coaching from sunday and practised the crew through routines to pull back the power and then rebuild to ...
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Keni coached two full crews on a beautiful Windermere day.
We all had a wonderful day developing our paddling technique in the morning and then working on our race strategies in the afternoon. Windermere was beautiful, sunny and calm.
Keni shared her knowledge and experience to bring out he best in us and made paddling ...
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Roz helmed an almost full 'Lucy' tooking us through a sustained set of exercises to improve paddling technique and then a series of race start practices. Finally the crew completed race set pieces over 60, 70, 80+ strokes practising bringing in and removing the power.
What a great workout and Windermere was a gorgeous ...
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Helm training weekend.
Four visitors supervise the 'warm down' after coming up from 'Worcester Busters' to train for helming.
After a theoretical session on Saturday the practical session was cancelled due to high winds and strong ...
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Another beautiful evening paddle.
A full crew for Artemis Phyllis practised race starts and a couple of short races helmed by Helen.
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What a beautiful evening for our first August midweek paddle.
There was a brilliant turn out for the first evening paddle with 22 crew in Artemis Phyllis on a beautiful, calm August evening. We had gorgeous Windermere views almost to ourselves.
Jane helmed paddlers through a range of stamina building and technique ...
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Best Dressed Boat Parade
The Lake District Boat Club had their annual Best Dressed Boat Parade
in Bowness Bay and Paddlers for Life, Windermere were there in all their glory.
With everything prepared our intrepid paddlers ventured to the western shores of Windermere seeking calmer ...
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Paddlers for Life join the celebrations at Ambleside YHA Grand Opening
Jane did a fantastic job organising the Paddlers for Life presence at the official opening of the Ambleside YHA following refurbishment.
Visitors to the YHA opening day enjoyed many activities including the chance to paddle a dragon boat with ...
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Another glorious sunny day on Windermere.
There was a good turn out again on Sunday as paddlers made the most of the weather.
There were enough paddlers today for two full crews in both boats.
This included some new paddlers and visitors trying out dragon boat paddling.
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