SUP Club 7th June 2023: details TBA & TBC! High tide (15.46 at Southend @5.51m) pretty much puts the coast off limits. But as the Willow Set parking at Paper Mill should be open, we'll have somewhere more comfortable to meet on the Chelmer? Totally TBA then TBC in the days approaching...
SUP Club 31st May 2023: details TBA & TBC! Low tide (16.37 at Southend @1.41m) is tricky again, although not totally impossible for the coast (maybe Thorpe Bay or even a one-way to Chalkwell of the wind's just right?). But otherwise, as the Willow Set parking at Paper Mill should be open at long last, we'll...
TBC. But actually, we've got a pretty firm idea well ahead of time as Chelmsford City Council (in fact, their Love Your Chelmsford department) have organised a river clean ahead of a week of events. So we're due to be on the water, alongside (on top of!) Chelmsford Scuba Club while volunteers pick the banks of...
Venue: Shoebury Common Beach Arrive: by 6pm Launch: after 6.20pm briefing Finish: c.8.00pm Level: Confident coastal paddlers With a light easterly breeze on the forecast and a (just about) doable high tide this week we’re heading to Shoebury Common Beach (SS3 9QR / https://w3w.co/scared.acting.earth) for either a splashabout or a quick route, depending on how much sea breeze effect and how southerly...
Venue: Two Tree Island (SS9 2GB) Meeting: from c.6pm Launch: after 6.30pm briefing Finish: c.8.15pm Level: Competent coastal paddlers Warning: although the forecast is allowing us out at the coast from Two Tree tonight, with today's easterly breeze predicted to peak this evening we’re expecting tonight’s paddle out (against a flooding tide and maybe 10-knots of breeze) to be potentially ‘challenging’...
Afraid it's all change for this Saturday's pick as the River Chelmer is running too fast and high to from Mill House, where we wouldn't be surprised if Thursday / Friday's rainfall sees the river breech its banks ...
Venue: Mill House (CM3 4BG) Meeting: from 6.10pm, 26th April 2023 Briefing: 6.35pm at Little Baddow Mill Lock Launch: c.6.40pm at Little Baddow Mill Lock! Finish: c.8.10pm Level: Competent river paddlers OK, full disclosure, there is rain on the forecasts for later. But otherwise conditions (ie; wind!) look perfectly good for another upstream-downstream session from Mill House tonight. There's going to be...
Venue: Mill House (CM3 4BG) Meeting: c.6.15pm, 3rd May 2023 Launch: after 6.40pm briefing Finish: c.8.15pm Level: Competent river paddlers That's right, it's breezy again! But dry and potentially even sunny if we're lucky – so should feel a bit different, albeit in the familiar environs of Mill House on the River Chelmer again tonight. Nothing like as fierce as a fortnight...
Although the River Chelmer will certainly be high and flowing, we're pretty confident it shouldn't burst its banks again this week so are still keen to get back onto our boards for this month's litterpick. Meeting from 11.30am ahead of a midday start on Saturday 15th April at Mill House (https://w3w.co/thigh.roadshow.rehearsal: where parking may be tight, so very...
Venue: Mill House (CM3 4BG) Meeting: from 6pm, 26th April 2023 Briefing: 6.30pm at Little Baddow Mill Lock Launch: c.6.35pm at Little Baddow Mill Lock! Finish: c.8pm Level: Competent river paddlers Turns out we've got another easterly breeze tonight – but at c.10 knots it's nowhere near as strong as last week – so our 2023 SUP Club season continues from Mill...
