Venture Kayak Flex
Pyranha have a new baby! The Venture Kayaks Flex.
(Good size cockpit, easy to get get in and out!)The perfect size for families looking to have fun on the water, the Venture Flex is a high quality and feature rich recreational kayak that every member of the family will enjoy.
With the purpose of introducing you to kayaking, the Flex has been designed to be Flexible. Whether the water is calm or a little more adventurous , the feeling you get from the Flex will always be one of reassurance.
It has the most stable hull Venture has ever designed, it is reliable, safe and super comfortable. It is spacious enough to help you find the perfect seating position and features a large cockpit for easy entry.
This boat has a seat fitted with our unique Flip Top backrest, so paddlers can enjoy the best of both performance and comfort.. It also has our twistock footrests, adjustable thigh grips, hatch, bulkhead, deck lines and skeg all fitted as standard.
After only a very quick paddle it clear to see the Flex is a great little boat, very comfortable & stable, with the drop down skeg up it turns well in the water, but pop it down and it tracks like a steam train! Nice and quick too. Thumbs up around, a great little boat, for the price excellent.
Retails at £499 Demo Boat Available Soon.
Kayak and canoe Hire on the Thames
Kayak and canoe Hire on the Thames.
After new day and another group out for a paddle on the Thames, Hire this year is going really well for us, and we are super lucky to have an excellent stretch of river right on our door step.
If you would like to come and try Canoeing or kayaking hire is available Monday to Saturday, during the week you can pretty much turn up and go for it! Saturdays are getting busy! If you can phone and book in advance that would help. Please call on 01932 247 978
Prices:
Kayak half day (4 hours) £25.00
Kayak full day £35.00
Canoe half day (4 hours) £30.00
Canoe full day £45.00I always enjoy deliveries here at the shop, but none more so than a delivery from Viking Direct. Do like a nice cup a tea and a biscuit!
The Big weekender!
The 4th and 5th of July is a special time of the year! It’s the Shepperton Slalom weekend. This year the event was once again blessed with wall to wall sun shine and a perfect water level.
Saturday started off not with a slalom! But with a Wave Hopper challenge race, around 35 competitors took part in the race from the canoe club around to the B weir at Shepperton and then back to start. This wasn’t anything to hard core, just a good fun race and it was nice to see plenty of junior paddlers taking part and getting involved.
Then on to the slalom, Dave had set up a nice flowing 18 gate course for the event, as the Div 3 ladies, men, juniors set off it was clear to see this was going to be a close run competition. In the C1 class Mr. Paul “Cheesy” Robertson even made his competitive return to the sport. And looked very smooth in his 4M Martikan! Taking 1st place.
(Cheesy in and around the gates)
Sunday saw a re run of Saturdays event, the course had been changed slightly and again the completion was tight. I don’t have a full list of the finishing results but as soon as we do are post them up!
I’ve been lucky lately! I’ve been paddling the new Nell slalom boat; the new boats are being brought into the UK by Local legend Ivan Lawler. If you need more info please give us a call, really nice agile boat. Demos are available.
A full list of the results can be found
HERE! and
Here!
