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!
posted by Pete @ 2:40 AM
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