Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

This is sounding all to familiar. The river level is high at the moment but failing The weather forecast for the week is wet but nothing torrential. At the moment we can still hold the event , the course would be moved 30 mtrs down stream so we would not use the top of the weir shoot. But keep an ey...

Thanks to all who helped out this weekend, club members and visitors alike. Thanks to all those who competed without whom there would be no event. Obviously the sun shone on the righteous this weekend, with wall to wall sunshine down here as well as north of the border. See you all July 14/15. Follo...

OK Sunshine is booked for both days, so looking good for the BBQ Saturday night. The nearest we are going to get to a start list without knowing the hundreds of late entries we are going to get is. Saturday; Free practice till 09:30 Organised practice till 11:00 First runs 11:15 ish (all depant on l...

Hi Stu, My grandad told me that when he started slalom in 1977 there was no 20 second penalty for an outside touch, but the older members in the club we still talking about the rule and how its removal was de-skilling the sport and would evantually lead to the collapse of civilisation as we now it. ...

Did I Forget to mention Cakes ?

Only 24 days to go.
Avoid disappointment book early, entries now flooding in (or is that the water level?).
Team events Saturday
BBQ Saturday night.

Nearly as much use as the off reply.

$69 Australian

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Alternatively you could search Peterborough land fill sites, somebody in the family threw mine out after the strap broke.

Could be down to one of 3 reasons; 1 Senility on my part. 2 We are alot kinder in the south, probably something to do with only drinking half pints of shandy! 3 Or we have misinterpreted rule UKC5.1 page 68 in the year book. Last bit says "3 Competitors or 3 Teams in Division 4 start in that catego...

So we are strapped for cash. I think I have read in one of the links that Div1 is a schizophrenic division being a mix of racers and recreational paddlers. (what ever a recreational paddler is, I cant fit a flask and sandwiches behind the seat of my boat and besides stopping for a sandwich in the u...