Sunday paddling.

Sunday paddling. Paddlers for Life did the Windermere equivalent of 'the Grand Tour' today as Aly and Helen helmed Artemis Phyllis and Lucy at Low Wood along the eastern shore from Low Wood Bay southwards past Brockhole and White Cross Bay towards Bowness with a steady paddle against the wind to return. In the ... More

What a beautiful September Sunday and an opportunity to paddle in this exquisite location.

What a beautiful September Sunday and an opportunity to paddle in this exquisite location. Helen helmed us on a blustery trip up to Waterhead in the morning with some tricky maouvering at Holme Crag rock where the SSW wind caught Artemis Phyllis as she tried to slip into the northern reaches of Windermere. The crew ... More

ITV Pride of Britain, Local Hero.

ITV Pride of Britain, Local Hero. Sue has been nominated for this award acknowledging her personal cancer journey and her contribution to Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat paddling in the UK. She was filmed as she set off with some fellow paddlers from Blackpool Airport on her way to the Dublin Regatta. The footage ... More

A large contingent of Paddlers for Life, Windermere visited the IDBA Dublin Dragon Boat Regatta hosted by the Plurabelle Paddlers.

Dublin Regatta with Plurabelle Paddlers. Paddlers for Life had two teams in the Combined Class and the International section, a team of breast cancer survivors and a team of supporters augmented by some visiting paddlers. Over two days the two teams raced in three heats, semi-finals and finals over 200 meters for the ... More

It was a hard day’s work paddling dragon boats at Ambleside YHAday!

Paddlers for Life, Windermere took both of their newly cleaned, oiled and waxed dragon boats, (by Bill), to put them through their paces at Ambleside YHA's open day. As you can see from the above photo it was challenging work! The wind was quite strong at times so the two races between the boats in the afternoon ... More

Keni stayed and coached again for the last of the August Evening Paddling sessions.

Keni stayed and coached again for the last of the August Evening Paddling sessions. These evening paddling sessions have had beautiful conditions that really show off the beauty of where we paddle. Keni built on the coaching from sunday and practised the crew through routines to pull back the power and then rebuild to ... More

Keni coached two full crews on a beautiful Windermere day.

Keni coached two full crews on a beautiful Windermere day. We all had a wonderful day developing our paddling technique in the morning and then working on our race strategies in the afternoon. Windermere was beautiful, sunny and calm. Keni shared her knowledge and experience to bring out he best in us and made paddling ... More

The third August evening paddle continues the trend of beautiful paddling conditions and location.

Roz helmed an almost full 'Lucy' tooking us through a sustained set of exercises to improve paddling technique and then a series of race start practices. Finally the crew completed race set pieces over 60, 70, 80+ strokes practising bringing in and removing the power. What a great workout and Windermere was a gorgeous ... More

Helm training weekend.

Helm training weekend.                 Four visitors supervise the 'warm down' after coming up from 'Worcester Busters' to train for helming. After a theoretical session on Saturday the practical session was cancelled due to high winds and strong ... More

Another beautiful evening paddle.

Another beautiful evening paddle. A full crew for Artemis Phyllis practised race starts and a couple of short races helmed by Helen. More