Shetland Canoe Club

As promised, with summer trips now likely to wind down and become more weather and daylight dependent, up  comes the surf!

Angus Nicol digs deep in moderate surf conditions at Quendale yesterday

Club members enjoyed an afternoon of moderate surf at Quendale yesterday , with occasional runs of bigger waves. Surf gurus Jonathan and Jim on [...]

Members of the Shetland Canoe Club took a trip to the Scottish Mainland to do some river kayaking in October.

Ruby Price was one of them and here is her personal account of the fantastic trip, taking in a wide variety of river paddling, spectacular scenery and the paddle sport annual show for 2010. Read on!

For those of you who missed it, here’s a brief taster. The bigger waves are in stills, but here’s a youtube vid to be going on with. I’ll try and add more if I have time.

Mark B

The trip on Tuesday 29 June saw 18 paddlers on the water including 10 of our new One Stars. Some shortened the distance paddled by taking boats to Papil on the trailer.

We crossed over the beach at Bannamin and paddled out to the entrance to the bay. The group all said they wanted [...]

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There’s a new photo album in the Gallery page, from the club trip to Ronas Voe on the 6th June.  Check out the Gallery to see them all.

Nine paddlers took part in a half day trip at Westerwick on Sunday 30th May 2010. With a Fresh Northerly wind this provided a sheltered location in the lee of the banks. The route followed the coast East to Silwick and its off lying stacks, then North past Giltarump to Fografiddle and Drongi Taing. [...]

For all members to share and enjoy, we will post any trip reports and announcements here on the site as time goes on. Click on the titles to read the full reports. If you would like to contribute, get in touch.