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Trips planned for the semester

The club is organising a number of trips over second semester. These will be posted online as the dates are finalised.

  • Brunswick River – Mullumbimby to Brunswick Heads (for a pub lunch) and back
  • Coomera Island – Circumnavigate Coomera island in the Southern Moreton Bay / Gold Coast
  • Noosa River – Explore the Noosa river and sea kayak training (Weekend trip)
  • North Stradbroke Island – Dunwich/Blakesleys/Peel island (weekend trip)
  • Tweed River – Day trip exploring parts of the Tweed river
  • South Stradbroke Island – a day trip to Tipplers, Swan Bay, or the Bedrooms
  • Bribie island – Grade 2 training/assessment
  • St. Helena island – Day trip in Moreton Bay
  • Barefoot Bowls Paddle – a social Paddle to Newfarm followed by barefoot lawn bowls

Others events to be scheduled during the semester.

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Previous Committee 2015-2016

Executive

President: James Thompson
Vice President: John Simmons
Treasurer: Martin Wynne
Secretary: Craig Selkirk

Representatives

Sea Kayaking: Pierre Lemaire
Flatwater: Clayton Young (Bronwyn Platz until Dec 2015)
Whitewater: vacant (pleae email if interested)
Canoe Polo: Simon Hales

Officers

Equipment: Alex Archibald
Membership: vacant – please email if interested (Chris Mckay until Feb 2016)
Publicity: Kathryn Greenwood
Fundraising and grants: vacant – please email if interested (Ross Darnell until Dec 2015)
Social: Maija Raudsep

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River Paddling

Going for a paddle on the river? Are you happy if someone else comes along, or you are looking for a paddle partner? Maybe someone else is planning to paddle around the time your want to? Let others know by submitting to this virtual paddle board.

Want to join someone? Add your name with the same date and time.

Only for paddles from the club shed. Check the calendar for upcoming paddles.

Access code – The access code is the current shed code.
If you do not have this, please contact membership as it usually means there is a problem with your current membership. Never give this to others if they don’t have it.

If you would like to be alerted when someone places a paddle, an RSS newsfeed is here (code required).

Please support the regular weekday and weekend paddle sessions.

Paddle Board

Click on the dot under the date for more info. Click on that for full info.
To change by year: click on the outer < > | To navigate by month click on the inner < >

 

Note that the paddle board will only work if members use it – especially regular paddlers.

Advertise Your Plans or Join Someone

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Polo and Pool Training Calendar 2016

POLO Restarts 22nd March 2016.

Next General POOL Training Sessions
Experienced members please come along help out at the General pool training sessions on the first few Tuesday evenings of each semester at 7:45 PM. (see below for dates). Entry is free if you help and/or teach. Note that these three dates are not canoe polo, and are not open to non-members unless invited specifically. Canoe polo will be every week at the UQ pool AFTER the pool training sessions end. See calendar below.

Next Polo Sessions

SEMESTER 2

    CLUB POOL TRAINING (experienced UQ club paddlers please come and help!)
    9th August, 2016 – NO POLO (club pool training instead)
    16th August, 2016 – NO POLO (club pool training instead)
     
  1. 23th August, 2016 – Canoe Polo Introduction 7:45 PM <--- Also Sea kayak rescue training
  2. 30th August, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also Sea kayak rescue training
     
  3. 6th September, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddle strokes
  4. 13th September, 2016 – Canoe Polo & Polo teaching/skills 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  5. 20th September, 2016 – Canoe Polo & Polo teaching/skills 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddle strokes
  6. 27th September, 2016 – Canoe Polo & Polo teaching/skills 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
     
  7. 4th October, 2016 – Canoe Polo & Polo teaching/skills 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddle strokes
  8. 11th October, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  9. 18th October, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddle strokes
  10. 25th October, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  11. 1st November, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddle strokes
  12. 8th November, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  13. 15th November, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddle strokes
  14. 22nd November, 2016 – Canoe Polo 7:45 PM (final pool session for the year) <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
     
  15. Social Event: 29th November, 2016 – Meeting at a local restaurant. Email Peter for ideas/registration. Look back here for details.

Polo will restart in March 2017

SEMESTER 1

    CLUB POOL TRAINING (experienced UQ club paddlers please come and help!)
    1th March, 2016 – NO POLO (club pool training instead)
    8th March, 2016 – NO POLO (club pool training instead)

    15th March, 2016 – NO POLO (club pool training instead)
     
  1. 22st March, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also Sea kayak rescue training
  2. 29th March, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also Sea kayak rescue training
     
  3. 5th April, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  4. 12th April, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddler strokes
  5. 19th April, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  6. 26nd April, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddler strokes
     
  7. 3 May, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  8. 10 May, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddler strokes
  9. 17 May, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also advanced paddle strokes
  10. 24 May, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddler strokes
  11. 31 May, 2016 – Canoe Polo starting 7:45 PM <--- Also beginner paddler strokes
     

    12. Polo/Pool sessions have finished for first Semester 2016. Restarting in August