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Frome Canoe Club is affiliated to the British Canoe Union and is a Registered Charity (Number 1104728)
Newsletter
Volume 37 Issue 6 June 2013
ARTHUR HERE: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? P19 for details
Langham Farm Slalom 8/9th June Come and compete and/or
Come and help (we needs lots of this!) See P4 for details
J12 prize for Jamie at Winchester. Well done Jamie! For all the recent slalom results see P11
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In this issue
3 Calendar in brief
4 Langham Farm Slalom
5 Wednesday sessions
6 Course information
7 Biblins
8/9 Grand Team Event
13 Canoe Course
14/15 Open Boat Trip `
6 Mini slalom dates
10 Some more dates for the diary
11 Recent results
12 Bala Mill Slalom
16 Bits and Pieces
17 Copper noseclip points
19 Go Canoeing day
CALENDAR: details
REPORTS
SPECIALS
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Send articles for the next issue to [email protected] by 27th June
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President
Graham Warnecke
Vice Presidents
Richard and Jane Arney
Jim and Catharine Croft
Chairman
Alun Jones
Vice Chairman
Gareth McGiveron
Treasurer
John Kent
Secretary
Pam Dixon
16 Blagdon Walk, Frome, BA11 2YH
Committee Members
Arthur Belbin
Rich Carter
Jonathan Howell
Stuart Miles
Sally Smiles
Kath Norton
Kit Officers
Tim and Sally Smiles
SLALOM
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Calendar 2013
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Date Event Standard Contact
June
2 Set up Langham Farm slalom All John K
4 Two Star Course starts Improvers Pam D
6 Thursday skills training All Rich C
8/9 LANGHAM FARM SLALOM All Arthur B
22 Go Canoeing Day All Pam D
20 Thursday skills training All Rich C
26 Passport Course starts Beginners Pam D
29/30 BIBLINS weekend All Pam D
July
5 Mini slalom at Market Yard All John K
6/7 Safety and rescue course Improvers Pam D
13/14 One Star weekend Beginners Pam D
21 MARKET YARD SLALOM All John K
28 CIWW trip 2 Star + Rich C
August
9 Mini slalom at Market Yard All John K
10 Aquatic First Aid course All Pam D
11 BBQ and Fun races All Pam D
31/1 3 Star weekend Improvers Pam D
Strict adherence to the Club’s code of conduct is expected at all times on club events .
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Club sessions
Carl, Kurt and Neil on the Allta Chourinn, a steep rockslide in Glen Etive.
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also running from 7.30-8.30pm
More fun and games Introductory sessions Open boating
7-8pm
choose from
Slalom training—adults and
young people
Fun and games for young people
Canoe Polo for beginners
Passport - a beginners course
Discover - an improvers course
Inexperienced paddlers 7-8pm Experienced paddlers 8-9pm
8-9pm choose from Adults only group Canoe Polo for experienced
We now have a SUGGESTION BOX at the clubhouse. Please
use it to let us know your views! Every month the suggestions
will be reviewed by the committee and we will report back to
you via the newsletter to see what you think.
There have been two suggestions so far. One is to have the
calendar available as a single sheet when the newsletter goes
out.. The other is to have a money tin in the kitchen for people who have a cup of tea or
coffee to make a contribution. Any comments?
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COURSES
Passport An introductory 7 week course for the under 14s. At the Market Yard during normal club sessions. Wednesdays, 7-8pm. Start date - 26th June
One Star A course for beginners. At Market Yard over a weekend, 9am - 5pm both days. Date - 13th/14th July
Two Star Canoe and Kayak A course over 7 weeks on Tuesday evenings. This progresses you from One Star to an intermediate level. Tuesdays, 4th June - 16th July
Three Star Whitewater kayak course 13st August/1st September And the moving water sections on 13th October
Safety and Rescue A course spread over a weekend where you learn the ins ands outs of rescues. 6th/7thJuly
Aquatic First Aid An 8 hour course covering incident management, resuscitation etc. August 10th
Ask if you need a 16 hour course.
For more information about courses, pick up a leaflet from the club, or look on the web site. Download an application and post to Pam or email her to book your place.
FRIDAY MINI SLALOMS 5th July, 9th August, 6th September At the Clubhouse, 7pm till 9pm. Cost £2
Our Summer mini slalom series of fun events.
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This camping weekend is for youth members. We go to the wonderful Forest of Dean and paddle on the River Wye
on two days. Ideal for open boats and kayaks.
You need to bring A tent (or share one with a
friend, single sex tents only), Sleeping bag plus mat Overnight things Waterproofs and wellie
boots Canoeing things, which you
can pick up from the club on the morning.
We pitch the big club marquee so that we can all eat together and if it is raining at least we can shelter together.
Pam sorts out all the food and everyone mucks in together to prepare it and then do the clearing up afterwards.
We canoe on Saturday afternoon, a fairly long river trip and end up jumping from the Yat rock into the water. On Sunday we play on the rapids in the morning.
The cost includes the transport, the food for the weekend, campsite fees and paddling on two days. To book a place talk to Sally or Pam on the desk on Wednesdays or email Pam ([email protected]). A deposit of £10 secures your place.
YOUTH members:
This trip is for you!
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Grand Team Event 12th May
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We had the best ever turnout for our team event this year, with 34 participants and loads of help! It was a great day.
And of course thank you to all the volun-teers who came to help - we couldn’t have done it without you!
For the full team list and final scores, please see P10.
Team - The Famous Five
And the winners are:
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Grand Team Event - continued
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Team event continued
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8th/9th June Langham Farm Slalom. This is a big event in our calendar and we need help to organise it as well as entering an FCC team of competitors.
15th/16th June Cardington 2/3/4
22nd/23rd June Shepperton 3/4
29th/30th June Ogmore Slalom 3/4
Friday evening 5th July Our first Mini slalom of the year, this is a club a club event We hold this at Market Yard and it is a friendly competition with lots of good fun. There are three mini slaloms alto-gether in this series, and John does the magic figures to work out the overall winners at the end of the season.
Sunday 21st July Market Yard 4/open . A national competition, very good if you are new to the sport.
Team Name Participants Best Run
1 The Professionals Kath N, Ben N, Jack O 117
2 JAM Ian J, Andy L, Mark H 129
3 Woodcutters Jamie E, Ben L, George M 129
4 The Terrible Trio Isi M, Gine MBL, Emily E 132
5 Famous Five Jack K/ Jack S, Sums/Andy V, Tom K 145
6 For Real Emily E, Jane T, Kath N/Stu M 153
7 Slowly Sinking Alex H, Keiran F, Kieran C 156
8 Will We Finish? Dan C, Julia/George, Pam D/Rich C 176
9 Team Gertrude Issy V, Rosie V, Josie D 184
10 CCEM Ertha G, Chloe C, Merryn/Carl G 367
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Slalom dates for your calendar
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Slalom: a summary of results
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4th May Bala
K1 Men Div 3 Jack Overhill 8th
K1 Men Div 2 Ben Nicol 11th
Andrew Lyall 28th
John Kent 32nd
Chris Bartlett 34th
5th May Bala
K1 Men Div 3 Jack Overhill 17th
K1 Men Div 2 Ben Nicol 3rd
Chris Bartlett 11th
Andrew Lyall 18th
John Kent 31st
18th May Winchester
K1 Men Div 4 Jamie Easton 5th
Mark Hemmens 9th
Alex Hulin 12th
Open John Kent/Andrew Lyall (C2) 4th
25th May Llandysul
K1 Men Div 2 Ben Nicol 7th
Chris Bartlett 11th
C2 Div 2/3 John Kent/Andrew Lyall 2nd
K1 Men Div 3 Will Jones 3rd
Jack Overhill 4th
26th May Llandysul
K1 Men Div 2 Ben Nicol 5th
Chris Bartlett 10th
Andrew Lyall 16th
John Kent 21st
K1 Men Div 3 Jack Overhill 2nd
Will Jones 3rd
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Bala Mill Slalom
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5th May Ball Mill Slalom (Div 2/3) by Andrew Lyall
What a long way to Bala - 4½ hours but worth every
minute.
Challenging course starts below Bala Mill Falls - 20
gates.
What great weather, mainly dry and not cold - 12oC to 14°C.
Despite a few swims Jack Overhill came up smiling - irrepressible and
8th on Saturday.
Ben Nicol coming 3rd on Sunday out of 41 - what a pro, making it look
so easy.
Chris Bartlett coming 11th on Sunday - same time as Ben but more
penalties. 18 seconds quicker on his second run.
These 10 and 12 year olds are quick round the gates in their little
boats. What a great time they are having.
Dave Radmore from Cool Blue Canoes smiling as he won the veterans
event.
Richard Davies aged 75 has now done 51 years in slalom and still go-
ing.
What a great job Ken Cunliffe did organising the slalom. Everyone
got their runs before the water was turned off. A close run thing on Saturday!
Our two over 25 year olds were not disgraced in the division 2 event.
FCC had 5 competitors this year and only 1 in 2010 - what an im-
provement.
What an excellent B & B Mary and Mike Gareth run (Tel: 01678
521640). 5 minutes walk to the centre of Bala.
Come to the Slalom training Every Wednesday
at the Market Yard 7-8pm
And talk to Ben Nicol or to John Kent
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Our first in-house canoe course
The survey we did last year asked for more canoe skills for members. Our re-sponse was a weekend course.
So Stuart organised the Saturday at Market Yard and the Sunday at Langham Farm. It was a great success and we learned a few of the one-hundred for-ward paddling strokes, some of the turning strokes including the inside pivot turn. It’s a shame Stu forgot the support strokes though, because we needed them on the open boat trip we did at the end of May!
Then on the Sunday, in some slightly moving water, we did a bit of ferryglid-ing. We tried poling which worked well but the tracking and lining was a dis-aster. We also got to use Neil’s sail but with only a little wind, we didn’t get far.
By way of thanks we gave Stu a thorough drenching - he wasn’t too cross!
The open boat trip at the end of May where we put all the new skills together is reported on P14
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Swimming Coaches on the Open Boat trip - 26th May
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There were a few red faces (and not from sunburn, though we did have a glorious day!) when a string of calamities made this Open Boat trip a trip to remember!
As with any FCC trip, it operated under the highest of standards with an admirable complement of qualified Coaches. Unfor-tunately this seems to have created its own problem, with onlookers left flabber-gasted by the events that followed.
Andy Vowell, an intrepid white water pad-dler, said ‘It’s unbelievable really, FCC Coaches are seasoned paddlers, you just wouldn’t expect it to happen – especially on a flattish river with hardly any flow’
As events unfolded an eye witness de-scribed seeing Head Coach RICH CARTER drop down over a weir and promptly fall out of his boat – a fellow paddler who asked for his/her anonymity to be pre-served said ‘It was just a straightforward drop, a support stroke would have done it. It’s such a shame, he was just starting to look confident on the water’.
ARTHUR BELBIN had a slightly more disas-trous day earning himself 6 points from two swims. Despite being assisted over a weir by a fellow coach he quickly capsized, staying afloat as one onlooker put it ‘for probably less than a minute’. On hearing that this had happened at not one but two weirs, club chairman Alun Jones said ‘we accept that some coaches did struggle to-day and have put in place an accelerated
And no swims for Kath, seen here on Beckington weir with a good brace working well!
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Swimming Coaches on the Open Boat trip - 26th May
learning programme for those con-cerned’.
Another Coach to make a quick exit from her boat was PAM DIXON at Clifford Weir but onlookers said this was in no way a reflection of this respected Coach’s paddling skills ‘Yeah but, no but, it was just one of those things’ said Ga-reth McGiveron the club’s vice chair.
Unexpectedly, as we are informed by sources close to STUART MILES that ‘Open Boats are his thing’, Stuart earned the most points of the day with TWO SWIMS and a TECHNICAL RESCUE. Hav-ing also benefited from the assistance of the Head Coach when shooting a weir, Stuart fell out of his boat and had to be rescued whilst clinging precariously to the weir in question. One concerned onlooker said ‘you could see he was sunk even before he even went over’. To add insult to injury Stuart went overboard again further downstream whilst at-tempting a ‘stand up and stretch’ ma-noeuvre. Unfortunately eyewitness ac-counts are sketchy about this but onlookers agreed ‘it was pretty embar-rassing really’.
Since the trip we have been able to catch up with John Kent, Club Treasurer who told us ‘we are mobilising resources to ensure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again – all coaches will now be issued with stabilisers as a matter of
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Anita on Shawford Weir “Yes! I’m back in the boat and no swims for me!”
And no swims for Kath, seen here on Beckington weir with a good brace working well!
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Bits and Pieces
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Manoeuvre of the month (1) This goes to Ivor Bennett for making his wife laugh so loudly and indeed causing her some pain from laughing, by going over Clifford weir sideways in a canoe and demonstrating a very undignified entry into the water.
course’.
In the meantime Kath Norton who inciden-tally ACED ALL THE WEIRS, with absolutely no help whatsoever, not even a little bit (don’t believe the eye witness accounts they are not always reliable) has agreed to act as substitute coach until all those above have got their mojo back.
Paddlers and points
Ladies: Anita C, Kath N, Pam D (3) and Sarah B
Men: Arthur B (6), Bob B, Chris C, (3), Ivor B (3), Rich C (3), Stu M (8)
Come back Stu - all is forgiven!
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2nd place for John and Andrew at Llandysul on Saturday.
Congratulations
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Frome Canoe Club organised a slalom event for the South West Region to encourage females into the sport. The day was attended by 12 people from as far away as Cornwall, Devon and Gloucester. It was a thoroughly successful day.
Thank you, Su, Kath, Isi, Stu, John and Rich for coaching.
Did you know that Frome Canoe Club is being used as an example of good practice, by our PDO (Paddlesport Development Officer). Apparently he tells other clubs about our Wednesday club sessions and how we organise the groups using the coloured bibs. He ad-vises other clubs to adopt our good practice!
Kate Johnson 18
Jack Overhill 15
Ben Nicol 11
Arthur Belbin 11
Rich Carter 11
Keiran Clark 9
Bex Tanti 9
Bill Fryer 9
Rich Norman 8
Stuart Miles 8
Carl Gilder 7
Kath Norton 6
Scott Hunter 6
Gareth McGiveron 6
Alun Jones 6
Jack Smiles 6
Zoe Boyle 4
Kieran Fewell 3
Ian Jones 3
Rich Heal 3
Hazel Cottle 3
Ellie Howell 3
Jonathan Howell 3
Chris Bartlett 3
Alex Nicol 3
Dan Carey 3
Bob Barr 3
Ivor Bennett 3
Chris Churchouse 3
Pam Dixon 3
Will Jones 3
George McGiveron 2
Kurt Doel 2
Linz Kimber 1
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Manoeuvre of the month (2) Goes to Chris Churchouse for getting stuck on lip of Clifford Weir and looking really desperate, as the realisation hits him that the outcome will be a wet exit from kayak in very shallow water. Ouch!
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Following the April fools article
about the hot tubs in the club-
house, a flurry of fb conversations
relegated Alex to the basement so
that we would keep his IT skills in
house!
Seems fair enough to let him out
now, wouldn’t you say?
For the Langham Farm slalom, 8/9th June. Every year we raise about £500 for the club by manning a cook tent and we are very grateful for donations of cakes to sell. If you can do any for us, Pam is happy to have them in the run up to the slalom or bring them on the morning! We also need help in the cook tent all over the weekend. Drop in and see us!
Herewith is
notification
that Alex is
officially out
of the
basement!
George, Gareth and
Rich raised £50 for
the club by providing
safety cover for the
Hotchilli Triathlon at
Vobster Quay on
Saturday.
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£1000 - a massive donation from Frome Town Council
towards the purchase and fitting of the roof lights in the upstairs room. Thank you FTC!
Frome Canoe Club is joining with the Frome Activity Day and Bike Jam, 22nd June, to offer canoe sessions to members of the general public. Can you help us on that day to introduce people to canoeing? We need volunteers to help kit out the participants and com-petent paddlers to take participants in open boats. Please let Pam know or sign the sheet if you are able to help.
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Arthur after Shawford Weir. Yes, you guessed, he went swimming!
Ed: he also went swimming again at Rode Mill Weir! That’s 6 points today!
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Canoeing and kayaking are “Assumed risk” – “Water contact sports” that may carry attendant risks. Participants should be aware of and accept these risks, and be responsible for their own action and involvement.
www.frome-canoe-club.org.uk
Check out the photos of club events on the website. And refer to the calendar for all the club activities.
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CONTACTS
Chairman Alun Jones 01373 823513
Vice Chair: Gareth McGiveron
Treasurer: John Kent 01225 765168 [email protected]
Secretary: Pam Dixon 07740 472982 [email protected]
Head Coach: Rich Carter 01373 864623
Youth Reps: Kath Norton and Stu Miles
Volunteer Reps: Jonathan Howell and Sally Smiles Kit Officers: Sally and Tim Smiles
2nd prize for Jack (above) and 3rd prize for Will (below) in the K1 Mens Div 3 at Llandysul on 26th May.