28 Results for year: 2019
Paddlers for Life participate in the Dragon Bay Regatta.
This regatta is sponsored by Low Wood Hotel and organised by CBA Events. Low Wood Water Sports staff and CBA Events staff did an excellent job of creating a day of fun and excitement.
Teams from local businesses, charities and other dragon boat teams participated ...
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While some paddlers were down in Liverpool paddling with other breast cancer paddlers at Pool of Life's Dragons and Flowers regatta there were still other members paddling on Windermere.
June writes...
We were in John’s capable hands as helm and 8 of us spread out in Artemis Phyllis to get the balance right.
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A great fundraising effort.
A huge thank you to Jane and the staff from Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy, Leyland
On Saturday 15 June
2019, 22 members of staff from Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy, Leyland came along to experience the joy of dragon boat paddling.
Under the expert tuition of Jane ...
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'Dotting of the Eyes'
2019
A tradition of Chinese dragon boating is dotting the eyes of the dragon heads. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, is a traditional and important celebration in China and generally falls in early June.
Paddlers for Life Windermere honour this event by dotting the eyes of the ...
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Again Roz lead on this day.
Members gathered at Low Wood to get everything ready for paddling next week.
Roz trained everyone on how to prepare the boats for the water dressing them with the head, drum tail and steering oar and all the safety equipment.
In a race to dress the boats newer members showed ...
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Roz lead this day of familiarisation for Paddlers for Life members.
The aim of the day is to prepare members for the new season and give new members an understanding of our basic activities.
It is also a day to renew friendships after the winter 'off' season with no paddling.
People introduced themselves ...
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Members met at Kendal Leisure Centre.
About 15 members including three new members met for an exercise session with Ali.
After lunch everyone headed to the pool for a thirty minute Aquafit aqua aerobics session with Anne.
This was followed by a half hour session with Jaqui Young which covered correct buoyancy aid ...
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Another fantastic fund raiser.
This was the the tenth Coffee Morning to raise funds at the Gaskell Hall Silverdale to raise funds for Paddlers for Life Windermere.
Previous coffee mornings had raised close to £10000 over the years and this year's event continued the trend raising a brilliant £1475.27p.
Mags ...
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