Our OC6 is with us.

Welcome to our OC6 outrigger canoe. Jill and Simon went down to London to collect our OC6 outrigger canoe from Great Britain Outrigger on Friday 23rd. April, 2021. Here are our first pictures of the canoe ready to collect and then loaded onto the trailer.             ... More

A welcome from Great Britain Outrigger

Great Britain Outrigger have welcomed Paddlers for Life Windermere writing "Congratulations to our newest Great Britain Outrigger club Paddlers for Life Windermere." on their Facebook post. They look forward to meeting us on Windermere and acknowledge our team effort in fundraising to get the outrigger canoe. More

Be ready to paddle.

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Resuming paddling in 2021

Plans for paddling in 2021. Paddlers for Life Windermere have plans in place to resume paddling on Sunday May 23rd. if the road map for pandemic measures continues with the current timetable. We are letting any signed-up member go in the boat (new or experienced) but no visitors at the moment. Hopefully we will be ... More

Motivation from Louisa.

Louisa, founder member and patron, reminds us of the benefits of dragon boat paddling and looks forward to our return to the waters of Windermere and the arrival of our outrigger canoe later  in 2021. More

Support our Hawaiian Challenge

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Helping our Hawaiian Challenge: Information and Donate.

Helping with our challenge. Our challenge goes live on the 1st. February, 2021. We are trying to raise £2500 to get our new outrigger canoe to Windermere and on the water with equipment, safety gear and livery. See here... and here. The distance is 10,719 miles (17,251 km) to bring an OC6 to a new home. Contr... More
Silverdale Coffee Morning fundraiser

Silverdale fundraising support.

Silverdale community's generosity. Normally, on this last Saturday in January, Paddlers for Life members would be meeting in Silverdale's Gaskell Hall for what has become an annual fund raiser for the team. The first coffee morning was in 2011.   Silverdale's Coffee Mornings are a community social event ... More

Outrigger canoe cancer paddling team Mana’olana.

Mana'olana means 'hope'. Mana'olana pink paddlers are the Hawaii based paddlers who provide similar support for cancer survivors and their supporters to those provided by breast cancer dragon boat teams. Sue and Peter paddled with them on their visits to Hawaii. It will be great to have our own outrigger canoe and a ... More

How an outrigger canoe will help paddlers.

Why an outrigger canoe for a dragon boat team? Getting our dragon boats on the water requires at least eight paddlers but ten, twelve or more make for a better paddling experience and the dragon boat can have as many as eighteen paddlers along with a helm who steers the boat and a drummer. Windermere can vary from dead ... More