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Second paddle on June 6th.

Another lovely day for our second paddle of 2021 Peter took out the first crew to paddle. June writes.. "Roz took out the second crew for a fantastic session some newbies from last week and newbies this week along with our experienced paddlers. It was a great paddle and Artemis Phyllis carried everyone safely over ... More

First paddle of 2021

A joyous return to paddling after pandemic measures. Paddlers enjoyed perfect conditions for the first paddling session of 2021 which was delayed for a week by strong winds the previous week. Sunshine and calm conditions made for a gorgeous day of paddling. The covid-19 safe paddling plans carefully risk assessed by the ... More

Resuming paddling.

Safe paddling trial run. A group of paddlers gathered on Thursday for a trial run of our covid-19 safe procedures for a return to paddling. Our trustees have carefully planned for a safe return to paddling after over a year has elapsed since our last paddling session due to pandemic measures and lock downs. Having ... More

Boat maintenance and pontoon building 2021.

More preparations for paddling. Members spent a day cleaning and maintaining the dragon boats, sorting equipment and tidying the garage and cleaning the pontoon sections and building the pontoon.                 More

Our OC6 is with us.

Welcome to our OC6 outrigger canoe. Jill and Simon went down to London to collect our OC6 outrigger canoe from Great Britain Outrigger on Friday 23rd. April, 2021. Here are our first pictures of the canoe ready to collect and then loaded onto the trailer.             ... More

A welcome from Great Britain Outrigger

Great Britain Outrigger have welcomed Paddlers for Life Windermere writing "Congratulations to our newest Great Britain Outrigger club Paddlers for Life Windermere." on their Facebook post. They look forward to meeting us on Windermere and acknowledge our team effort in fundraising to get the outrigger canoe. More

Be ready to paddle.

Paddling information sheet. Paddlers-info-sheet-2021 More

Resuming paddling in 2021

Plans for paddling in 2021. Paddlers for Life Windermere have plans in place to resume paddling on Sunday May 23rd. if the road map for pandemic measures continues with the current timetable. We are letting any signed-up member go in the boat (new or experienced) but no visitors at the moment. Hopefully we will be ... More

Motivation from Louisa.

Louisa, founder member and patron, reminds us of the benefits of dragon boat paddling and looks forward to our return to the waters of Windermere and the arrival of our outrigger canoe later  in 2021. More

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