We’ve had a great couple of weeks – a bit busy for blogging, but we’ve finally had half a chance to catch up today! The highlight of the fortnight has to be SUPfari #2 over the late May Bank Holiday weekend as almost 20 of us went out west to Bigbury in South Devon for five...
With another May bank holiday weekend imminent and June just around the corner, we're really looking forward to super-charging our summer of SUP! We're getting set for our next SUPfari on Friday when we're heading west to Bigbury, South Devon – we've got a big group booked up for camping at Mount Folly Farm over the bank...
So there goes another week as we accelerate into summer! Our highlight had to be last Wednesday night's SUP Club which was bound to be a busy one on the back of that mini-heatwave, plus we decided to hit Chalkwell which is always a popular option, yet it was still awesome to see over 40 paddlers on the water....
Wow – that was some Mayday weekend! So yesterday, after a bit of cross-border cooperation and planning last week, we escaped the seething Essex masses at Southend and headed north-east to visit our friends over at Suffolk SUP for our first ever joint inter-club fun-day at their beautiful home ground of Alton Water – 'Bank Holiday...
We're in a celebratory mood this week as, with the official results just posted, our Dunc has been declared 12'6" men's champion of the prestigious 10-mile Battle of the Thames race, the opening event of the 2018 GB SUP national race series. Having stuck with his trusty Red Paddle 12'6" x 25" Elite inflatable that he's been...
Wow – that was quite some heatwave, eh? Having scored the highest April temperatures since 1949, we really couldn't have hoped for a better way to start our 2018 teaching season. Because yesterday, Sunday 22nd April, saw the first couple of our paddleboarding school's Learn to SUP lessons up at Papermill Lock. It's amazing how quickly...
We're fresh back from Norfolk this week after a full-on weekend of SUP fun! Although the initial intention for our first trip of the year was an exclusively flat-water mission to Stratford-upon-Avon, the weather gods had different ideas – and on Thursday mid-morning the campsite dropped the bombshell that they were still waterlogged and had to close...
OK, it is a bit dreary again today – and probably tomorrow too. But then it cheers up and mid-term forecasts are all beginning to suggest that summer's due this weekend and into next week. We're so confident winter's finally done that we've at long last started to schedule our SUP school lessons up at Paper...
Happy Easter! Biblical miracles, chocolate eggs and magical rabbits aside, we're in April now which surely marks the start to a new summer SUP season. And we have been getting out there as a group – both last Wednesday for our first official SUP Club of the year, and yesterday a few of us managed to...
And we declare sunset SUP season open! Bang on cue it's BST and conditions panned out perfectly last night for our first group paddle of 'summertime' – taking advantage of the extra hour around a 7.20pm high tide for an evening SUP to the pub, namely the Crooked Billet in Old Leigh, and back as dusk...
