Evening paddle.

Evening paddle Thursday, 17th. May. Another glorious evening on Windermere which was almost flat calm. June, Mags, Roz, Lynn, Aly, Eunice, Sandra, Nick, Louisa and Tony all enjoyed the peaceful setting as we paddled southwards from Low Wood doing 5.61 miles at an average 4.2 knots peaking to 5.7 knots. More

Evening paddle.

Evening paddle. Windermere was beautiful this evening. Roz, Lynn, Aly, Jack, Ann, Nick, Zoe and Tony all probably passed rain, grey clouds, sun and even rainbows on their way but we had a glorious hour of paddling round the north end of Windermere doing 4 miles with not a drop of rain and calm water. Thanks everyone. More

Midweek Paddle welcomes a ‘One Show’ BBC film crew.

Midweek Paddle welcomes a 'One Show' BBC film crew. The weather varied between continuous rain and continuous heavy rain!! Low Wood Bay had over two inches, 53mm, of rain in the day. Nevertheless Paddlers for Life put out both dragon boats helmed by Paul and Tony. A BBC film crew were filming for an item on 'The One ... More

A number of dragons visited today to witness the ‘Dotting of the Eyes’.

A number of dragons visited today to witness the 'Dotting of the Eyes'. The Dragon heads made at the workshop earlier in the year are making excellent progress. Two of them are now in the process of being painted and all of them look wonderful. They will help create brilliant publicity for paddlers for Life. More

Evening training.

Evening training. Paddlers enjoyed a lovely training session as they skirted around the northern end of Windermere. They then headed southwards down the western shore before crossing and returning via Brockhole visitor centre jetty and back to Low Wood Bay. Paul helmed and the paddlers took a moment to practice their ... More

Tony helmed Lucy as paddlers trained for the Pageant Paddle.

Mags, Judy, Lynn, Roz, Steph, Sue P-J, John, Aly, Nick, Muku and Tony bravely arrived for an evening paddle. In spite of a not very promising forecast we were lucky as the rain had stopped and the wind had dropped. Tony took us through different levels of paddling as we skirted the northern part of Windermere. We ... More

Mags makes further progress on the ‘Lancaster’ dragon head.

Mags makes further progress on the 'Lancaster' dragon head. Mags says... "Just thought I'd plough on with our head as I was lucky enough to come across some of the paper rope in a charity shop in Lancaster yesterday! I've used the 'paper rope' as detail on the head (& eyebrows) and fixed it using a glue gun, and I ... More

A BBC crew came to film and interview Paddlers for Life preparing for the Pageant TV Programme.

Paddlers for life, Windermere have been chosen as one of the special focus crews in the Jubilee Pageant television coverage. A production team, Anya, Simon and Simon, visited today to film paddlers in their preparations for the Pageant. This included filming Artemis Diana and her crew as Keni took them through some ... More

Mags has been busy with the Lancaster Dragon Head which has taken over her home!

Yet another layer of paper on the dragon head and a preparatory couple of coats of emulsion paint and the dragon head is ready for its final phase of preparation when it will be painted in its resplendent livery. More

A fantastic flotilla workout!

A fantastic flotilla workout! What a fabulous day of paddling. Both Artemis and Lucy went on an extended journey across Windermere as paddlers trained for the Jubilee Pageant. We took a similar route to wednesday's paddle but extended it further south to Thompson's Holme, an island near Bowness. This added a mile to the ... More