Coffee Morning 2025

Our annual coffee morning fund raiser in Silverdale Gaskell Memorial Hall raised important funds for our breast cancer dragon boat team. The efforts of team members and supporters and the generosity of the Silverdale Community helped raise a grand total of £1622.48p with stalls, tombola, raffle, donations and refreshme... More

Happy New Year 2025

May 2025 bring everyone great paddling. We wish all your hopes are fulfilled and all the best for all you hold dear. Happy New Year to all our members and everyone who supports our activities. Low Wood Bay Resort & Spa host our boats and their staff are very helpful particularly at the water sports centre. ... More

A great coaching session.

Keni, our friend and coach from Three River Serpents, came over to give a mixed team of paddlers a really useful session. Paddling technique and timing were the focus of the season with emphasis on leaning into the stroke to get a good long reach as well as what stage in the stroke to get the paddle out of the water ... More

Visitor session.

We welcomed a group from McDonalds NW to a taster session to experience dragon boat paddling on Windermere. Several members helped with getting the boats ready to go onto the water. Other members drummed, helmed, acted as stroke pairs and supported in the rib. After a safety brief and warm up the visitors helped with ... More

September Paddle

More settled weather on Windermere with relatively calm water and warmer temperatures. Daniella, Michael and John helmed us to White Cross bay southwards on Windermere. Stephen and Howard watched over us from the support boat as we were occasionally rocked by swell from ferries and other lake users. ... More

Cross Morecambe Bay fund raiser.

What a fantastic experience walking with Guide over Sands Trust today. Ninety seven members, family and friends donated to our team and walked seven miles across the sands and mudflats of Morecambe Bay from Arnside to Grange-over-Sands. We were led by the King's Guide to the Sands, Michael Wilson, and safely looked ... More

Coaching Day with Keni

Our much loved coach visited from Three River Serpents 'Serpees' in Durham. Sessions have previously been cancelled by poor weather so it was great to have Keni back to take both experienced and newer paddlers through stroke technique and timing exercises. Keni has 25 years of dragon boat paddling experience ... More

Dotting the eyes of the dragons, 2024

We gathered to 'awaken' our dragons by 'dotting the eyes'. We paint in the pupil of the eyes on the dragon boat heads. Traditionally, this awakens the dragons so they can provide paddlers with protection, Irene led the ceremony explaining the traditions. Philippa told the story of the poet Qu Yuan who is ... More

Helming experience.

A couple of members took the opportunity to gain further helming experience under the guidance of two of our more experienced helms. They really showed their skills by not only helming the boats but also guiding crews in launching the boats from the jetty and returning them to storage after the paddling sessions were ... More

All Hands on Deck for our 2024 season.

The garage store is tidied, the pontoon re-assembled and the rib is checked over and cleaned. An eager group of paddlers gathered to help with all these tasks. New members were able to meet other paddlers and become familiar with our Low Wood site. Roz reminded everyone about our paddling day procedures to ... More