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What a place to paddle!
Beautiful boat, fantastic fells, wonderful water and practised paddlers.
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Presentation to Paddlers for Life Windermere.
Sian and some of her friends in the Navy Reserve group HMS Ceres completed a tandem skydive at Grange-over-sands to raise funds for two charities one of which was Paddlers for Life.
The initial donation was a very generous £500 and when the sponsorship all comes in ...
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Joint Training session with Worcester Busters 2nd. and 3rd. of September, 2017
Paddlers from Worcester Busters and Paddlers for Life shared a weekend of paddling in preparation for the 2018 Florence International breast cancer survivor dragon boat participatory festival. These paddlers will form a joint team.
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Paddling 13th. August 2017
Paddlers took Mary out today for a lovely warm paddle up to Ambleside with our lovely Goddess at the helm Roz who guided us through our training with set pieces of building up the paddling from 50% through to 70%,80% and 100% also in unleashing the beast and giving 20 strokes at maximum with ...
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Best Dressed Boat.
Judy organised for Paddlers for Life Windermere to be entered in the Lake District Boat Club annual Best Dressed Boat Parade
in Bowness Bay. Barbara started early getting the boat ready with a steady stream of members joining in with the decoration of the boat. Our theme was 'tin' representing our ...
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Regular paddling session.
We had a good paddle today with very able John and Chris at the helm with both boats out. It was a blustery paddle up to Ambleside and we got a little wet from the drizzle but this did not dampen spirits or the smiles and the sun came out which dried us out along with the breeze.
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John helms with great back up from Steve on the support boat.
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Two able goddesses at the helm, Roz and Helen, in quite windy conditions took paddlers up to Ambleside then across to the other side of the lake. It was a hard paddle back to Low Wood and Artemis Phyllis and Mary at Low Wood did a bit of surfing on the way back. There were also visitors from the University of the Third Age ...
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Coaching, Canada Day and Chinese visitors.
Another busy day for Paddlers for Life Windermere. Everyone pitched in to ensure another successful day of paddling.
Keni coached a morning session with regular paddlers with Jill and Lesley honing their helming skills.
Barbara helped everyone celebrate Canada Day ...
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Over several sessions members paddled the dragon boats while members learned the basic skills of helming a dragon boat. Training over two days gave opportunity to develop their skills.
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