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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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Brockhole Visitor Centre Open Day
Paddlers for Life Windermere had a strong presence at Brockhole Visitor Centre Open Day in a 'Meet the Dragon' day organised by Sue P-J.
It was a great team effort to enable members of the public to try their hand at dragon boat paddling. Barbara and Fran were busy organising ...
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A day for visitors.
Following this year's theme of unsettled weather, several visitors turned up to paddle in dull conditions.
This meant we could get two boats out on Windermere to give the visitors some basic paddling techniques and then a 'baptism of fire' with two short races.
The afternoon session was ...
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Two fantastic coaching sessions with Keni.
Good conditions at last for a wonderful coaching session with Keni.
Paddlers worked on their stroke technique in the morning and worked on race starts and transitions for a short sprint race in the afternoon.
Peter, Helen and Chris helmed.
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Eye Dotting ceremony 2013
It is traditional each year, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (usually June) for crews of paddlers to re-enact the frantic rush to save poet and courtier Qu Yuan, by powering long narrow boats with the ferocious heads of dragons mounted on the prow through the water, to the frenzied, ...
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June Paddling Session.
The wind was still with us so another interesting day of paddling for helms Aly, Helen and Tony.
They took us through some active paddling sessions which included coaching to improve the paddling stroke and some race practices over distances of around 250 metres.
June Dragon Boat Paddling ...
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