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Cambridge Canoe Club Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 2 Cambridge Canoe Spring 2010 Club Newsletter http://www.cambridgecanoeclub.org.uk This newsletter relies on contri- butions from members. If you have been on a My Club Experience by David Huddleston trip, have a point of view or news write it down and send it in to News- Hi, my name is David and I am [email protected]. thirteen years old. I joined the Articles should be between 75 and canoe club three years ago. I 150 words long and can be accom- started at the Abbey swimming panied by a picture. pool before moving onto the Cam where I did my 1 star course. Then I had a go with some white water at Cardington Special points of interest: which I really enjoyed. I must say thank you to the club Meet Dave Barton which has helped me and been very friendly. My dad started Trip reports kayaking with me but he does- n’t like white water so I really Water safety: Entrapment appreciate others who have taken the time to help me with First aid course this. The Wednesday evening David at the Nene White Water Centre series is a good way to develop Club Diary skills in a kayak, and I like going Another trip I have been on is the St. Ives area which was nice. to the sluice where I learnt the Hauxton Mill run to the club- about moving water. house – this was interesting My favourite activity though because part of the Cam was I have been lucky and managed must be white water, Cardington being drained which meant that to get my own boat, a Dagger was a great start but the Nene is Inside this issue: it had a fairly fast flow and we Blast - ‘Blasty’, which is a nice a lot better and thanks to Simon were able to go over the weir at general purpose boat, along and Terry for organising the trips Byron’s. My last trip was on the My Club Experience 1 with the basic gear including last year that enabled me to do Ivel. Although I had done it be- neoprene deck. I need to get a this course and I can’t wait for 2 fore this time it was very cold so Meet a Club paddler bigger buoyancy jacket shortly the next one. I was pleased to see my dad at but after this would like to Byrons Pool 2 the end with a nice warm car. I am hoping to get my 2 star this change my paddles for better year (and have sent my booking ones. During the summer/autumn I Water safety Part Two: Entrap- 3 form off already!) and then to was part of the new kids club ment I have been on quite a few club get some more white water ex- run by Andree and Nicky. It was trips including the camping trip perience. I shall also be doing New Years Day Paddle 3 good fun and I liked the variety to the Wye with my dad and my Duke of Edinburgh bronze of things to do and try. For ex- more recently I have visited the award and am hoping to help River That and Little Ouse 4 ample, we did some work in Nene White Water Centre a out at the club towards this. I am open canoes and practiced couple of times where I had a booked on the first aid course at rescues. In particular I enjoyed First Aid Course 4 go on some bigger white water. the end of the month to get a trip around Houghton Mill in ready for this. Events Diary 5 To get the club's diary of events and ad-hoc messages about club activities and the quarterly newsletter by e-mail Obituaries 5 please send a blank message to: [email protected] In case you already didn‟t know, canoeing is an assumed risk, water contact sport. Page 2 Cambridge Canoe Club Newsletter Meet A Club Paddler Each issue we meet a differ- ent club paddler. Who are you and what do you too often. This makes "outside Do you have a particular bit of paddle? the clubhouse" an adventure. kit you rely on? If you want to take part in I'm Dave Barton, I paddle a Do you have a funny story you It seems that everyone is enter- „meet a club paddler‟, please medium Pyranha Recoil, my can share? tained by my yellow Lomo dry- email your answers to the wife's Remix or my sons Percep- One time on the loop I had the suit, which is good for morale. same questions (and a small tion Spin. misfortune of being pinned Underneath is my fleece all in picture if you would like) to: What is your favourite stretch/ vertically. I had to swim out of one bear suit. It's so good I've [email protected] paddle that you do and why? my boat. Once back on dry land been known to do a rapid with- I think it would have to be the and back in my boat I seal out my boat, just for fun! river Dart "loop" section. Firstly, launched... into a tree! On the What does your paddling future the area is beautiful at all times opposite side of the river was a hold? of year. Secondly, the river has certain Mr Jakes filming it on I discovered alpine paddling in plenty to offer all standards of his phone. He never lets me 2009, freezing blue water, 30 paddler with some great fea- forget it! degree air temp, lovely! Hope- tures. Lovers leap is always Do you have any paddling ad- fully I'll be doing similar this different and I get to practice vice? year. I also envisage more my roll on triple falls! Your next swim may actually be coaching which will be great What is your favourite boat? the prelude to your next leap fun! Dave on an adventure I steal the spin from Thomas forward. Byrons Pool article and pictures reproduced from the Great Ouse Wetland Vision Newsletter Funded by Cambridgeshire Hori- Access improvements include zon’s Housing Growth Fund and the upgrading of existing path- administered by Cambridge- ways and installation of a new The Great Ouse Wetland Vision shire Horizons on behalf of the footbridge, providing excellent is a joint Environment Agency Home and Communities wheelchair access. A canoe and Natural England initiative to Agency, a number of biodiver- landing point and designated deliver an enhanced environment sity and access improvements fishing swims to allow safe ac- for fish and other wildlife in the have been made at Byron’s cess have also been created. In River Great Ouse catchment Pool Local Nature Reserve addition, a disabled accessible area. A newsletter is produced that gives an update on progress (LNR), which is managed by dipping /fishing platform has with the Great Ouse Wetland Cambridge City Council. also been installed. On-site Vision. If you would like to receive interpretation, access gates copies of the newsletter please Named after the poet Lord and seating have also been contact: The Environment Byron (1788-1824) who is said improved. Theses works have Agency, Susan Chambers Tel: to have bathed in the weir pool both protected and enhanced 01480 483834 Email: whilst studying at Trinity Col- the existing habitats and allow susan.chambers@environment- lege, the woodland was ac- improved recreational access. It agency. gov.uk quired by Cambridge City Coun- is envisaged that the reserve cil in 1949 and declared as a will become one of the focal Local Nature Reserve in 2005. features for the new residents of proposed new develop- Biodiversity improvements ments to the south of Cam- include the removal of selected bridge. non-native trees to reduce Angling coaching at Byrons Pool shading of the river and to en- Further information can be hance the woodland structure. found at Volunteers have helped to plant www.lnr.cambridge.gov.uk 1,500 native trees, increasing or contact Mr Ellis Selway, plant diversity and benefiting wildlife. Further work is pro- Community Reserves Officer posed to install a fish pass to or Mr Guy Belcher, Nature provide passage for fish up- Conservation Projects Offi- stream beyond the weir and de- cer at Cambridge City Coun- Improved riverside access at Byrons Pool silting of the existing fish ponds cil. to benefit amphibians. Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 3 Water Safety Part Two: Entrapment I guess like most members of exposure to the risk by doing which are used to control the the club, I love being on, around your best to not be in the water. river flow and levels. These can (and sometimes even in!) the If you swim in the whitewater move suddenly and without water, but the fact of the matter environment, make sure you warning, potentially increasing is that the river environment swim defensively – on your the flow in the river. A lot of can be very risky. On average back with your feet downstream them are motorised and won’t about 450 people a year acci- to fend off rocks. Only put your stop moving until they reach a dentally drown in the UK, of that hands or feet down to the bed pre-programmed position, total, 40% drown in stream and when you are safely well into an whether you’re in the way or rivers. So what are the main eddy. not. It is illegal to swim within Defensive swimming dangers? Last issue we talked 36m upstream or downstream about cold water, this time we Water depth is not normally of a structure.
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