Survivorship Conference and Dragon Bay Regatta

A very busy weekend for Paddlers for Life UK hosting a cancer survivorship conference on Saturday 12th. September and then the 2nd Dragonbay Regatta on Sunday 13th. September. Around twenty cancer survivors and forty health professionals listened to a range of speakers over the day whilst also having the time to share ... More

Regatta preparation.

Regatta preparation. Another warm and sunny September day with two boats out on the water. Peter helmed a boat with some training routines for visitors from The Rosemere Cancer Foundation who were preparing for the regatta next week. Helen helmed Artemis Phyllis while Mags on the drum did an excellent coaching session ... More

Reflection on Windermere water safety session.

These two videos show some of the moments when we practised water safety procedures including loss of the helm and then the drummer overboard. We also swamped the boat to experience being out of the boat in the waters of Windermere. More

Bank holiday exploration

Bank holiday exploration of the northern reaches of Windermere. A completely full boat helmed by Chris explored the northern reaches of Windermere. Time was spent poking the dragon's nose into inlets and river outlets looking for the wildlife. With the support boat in attendance the crew took a straight ... More
Visitors from the University of the Third Age in Kendal.

Members of U3A Kendal visited.

Members of U3A Kendal visited. Chris helmed the boat whilst teaching the basic stroke techniques. The visitors from the University of the Third Age also experienced race starts. They brought with them sunshine and we were able to avoid the worst of the wind by sheltering in the bay shoreline.   &nb... More

Water safety session on Windermere.

Water safety session on Windermere   With the water temperature at 17 degrees a small crew of twelve prepared to rehearse some safety procedures.  The exertion of paddling in wet suits was interrupted by various 'problems'. First we lost our helm Chris overboard and paddled back to get him on board. ... More

More coaching with Keni preparing for the regatta.

Second August coaching session with Keni Roz helmed while Keni coached some activities to remind paddlers of the paddling stroke elements. This was followed by some race start practices and then sequences of three sixty stroke race sequences with a twenty stroke light paddling 'breather' in between. Paddlers did ... More

A wet sunday morning.

A wet sunday morning. Roz helmed taking us through some stroke practice set pieces and race starts and also some 200m race set pieces. Lynn also took the opportunity to get the feel for helming standing up at the back and doing some basic manouvres on occasionally choppy water from the passing wakeboarder. It was good to ... More

Another wonderful coaching session led by Keni.

Another wonderful coaching session led by Keni. Keni coached two long paddling sessions which helped newer paddlers learn the elements of the stroke. More experienced paddlers were able to focus on the less effective aspects of their paddling stroke and fine tune its efficiency. Tasks included some sustained paddling, ... More

Members fundraise by doing the Total Warrior course at Shap Abbey

Paddlers for Life Windermere at Total Warrior Shap This brilliant group of people from Paddlers for Life Windermere really showed what wonderful people make up the cancer survivors and supporters at Paddlers for Life. We had fantastic day with lots of laughter and fun. These are the members who braved thirty muddy, ... More