Friends of Paddlers for Life

There are many people and groups in the locality and across the country and wider world who have given our team generous support.

One such group is the Three River Serpents, the ‘Serpees’, who are a UK league dragon boat team based in Durham.

This is one of their dragon boats on loan at the Paddlers for Life inaugural seminar in 2008. They brought it over on a trailer to show at the event as Paddlers for Life had not yet taken delivery of their new boats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They took two of their dragon boats to Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway so that a local group could have a taster day for dragon boat paddling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They have paddled in the boat with us and in their own boat alongside us at Solstice Paddle events paddling the length of Windermere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have visited Durham Rowing Club to paddle with them prior to our paddling season.

 Paddlers for Life paddlers visit the Three River Serpents team in Durham for a joint training session.Ready to paddle with the Serpees in Durham.

 

 

Paddlers for Life visit the Three River Serpents in Durham for a training session.

Keni has coached us every year that we have been paddling.

Coaching sessions were an important preparation for the IBCPC international festival in Peterborough, Canada. 2012
Coaching

Coaching sessions were an important preparation for the IBCPC international festival in Peterborough, Canada. 2012

Coaching sessions are always popular with paddlers even though we know hard work awaits us. 2013
Coaching

Coaching sessions are always popular with paddlers even though we know hard work awaits us. 2013

What's not to enjoy when paddling and learning in these beautiful surroundings. 2013
Coaching

What’s not to enjoy when paddling and learning in these beautiful surroundings. 2013

Keni has much paddling experience and has the knack of refining everyones' skills. 2015
Coaching

Keni has much paddling experience and has the knack of refining everyones’ skills. 2015

Our coach Keni brought along the new arrival to her family who was presented with her own dragon boat paddle. 2015
Coaching

Our coach Keni brought along the new arrival to her family who was presented with her own dragon boat paddle. 2015

Paddlers have to deliver for the coach sometimes in quite challenging conditions.. 2016
Coaching

Paddlers have to deliver for the coach sometimes in quite challenging conditions.. 2016

Look at the smiles as Keni takes paddlers through the paddling techniques to build skills. 2017
Coaching

Look at the smiles as Keni takes paddlers through the paddling techniques to build skills. 2017

Now they are doing a Tahitian challenge to raise additional funds for their OC6 outrigger canoe. The challenge is to cover the distance the canoe traveled from Tahiti to Durham, 17,726.32 km by human powered means. Some Paddlers for Life Windermere paddlers are helping with the challenge and many members have donated.

You can see a video promoting their challenge here.

Update: The Serpees completed their tahitian Challenge and clocked up the distance total and also raised a little over their £5000 target for the purchase of their OC6 outrigeer canoe.

If you haven’t donated please consider doing so by going here.

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