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

Evening paddle Pageant preparation.

Paul helmed Artemis Diana and took us on a 6 mile tour of the northern Windermere. We had a slightly choppy crossing to Wray Castle's Low Wray Bay. We were next heading south in much calmer water across High Wray Bay before heading onwards across Belle Grange bay and past Bass Rock. Then a little further towards Slape ... More

Another active day of paddling in preparation for the Pageant.

Another active day of paddling in preparation for the Pageant. There were visitors from Perth, Australia, Worcester Busters as well as members' friends so Artemis Diana was easy to fill. Peter helmed the boat through calmer waters in the morning but the wind picked up and the temperature dropped in the afternoon. ... More

In the Year of the Dragon, Element water, Paddlers for Life ‘Dotted the Eyes of their dragons.

John and Elaine Parkinson from Upfront Gallery, Unthank, near Penrith 'dotted the eyes' of Artemis Diana today. John ran the dragon workshop for us and Elaine did the catering. John, as a cancer survivor, dotted the eyes of Artemis Diana. Barbara, our trustee and treasurer lent a hand.       ... More