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A wet and windy SUP Club on the River Chelmer, from Mill House

28/03/2018

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Enormous thanks to our incredible hosts and their

Enormous thanks to our incredible hosts and their amazing team’s hard work for a sublime Secret SUP Club last night. 🙏 After a c.7k paddle from their secret launch spot on the Chelmer (with an added outback adventure start for some!) we were treated to an awesome barbecue dinner in a magical glade by the creek… 🍔🌭🥗🖤🧡 These few snaps definitely don’t do it justice, but it’s all we have for now.

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #secretspot

Secret SUP Club heads-up: we’re returning to our

Secret SUP Club heads-up: we’re returning to our exclusive private launch spot on the River Chelmer this Wednesday. 🤫 And afterwards, our gracious hosts are laying on a BBQ for us too! 🍔🌭🥗 Be prepared; after this summer’s super-hot weather the duckweed has suddenly hit in quite a big way this last couple of days, so paddling could be a bit of a pea-souper in places. 🍃 Parking will be £5 plus hot food for £10pp for anyone wanting to stay on and eat. 👀 Look out for the event on Facebook & via www.supsect.co/sup-club later – then we’ll be moving to email for postcode details and BBQ numbers.

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #secretspot

To be clear, every Wednesday it’s really important we know that everyone coming to Club is a competent stand-up paddler already (ie; able to stand up and paddle strong for 90+ minutes and not in need of a lesson to do so – which of course we offer via www.supsect.com/learn-to-sup). 🖤🧡 This is our 10th year of SUP Club and we have always been as inclusive as possible, but to ensure we stay that way we need to stress that Wednesdays are for capable paddlers not absolute beginners. ⚠ If in doubt, please just get in touch to ask!

We still didn't score quite the chopfest we were e

We still didn't score quite the chopfest we were expecting last night at SUP Club – seems yesterday's heat set off enough of a sea breeze effect to neutralise the ambient wind. ☀️ Instead, after a slightly choppy start, we enjoyed beautiful coastal conditions at Shoebury Common Beach in the end ... so to spice things up we turned to a game of SUP rugby instead, followed by some mellow tricking, while others cruised and chilled as the sun began to set. 🏉🤙 Great fun, followed by a big meal out at the Shoebury 'spoons. 🍻🍕🎂🖤🧡 Huge thanks all!

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

SUP Club heads-up: so having gone around the house

SUP Club heads-up: so having gone around the houses it’s looking like we’re back on for an echo of a fortnight ago: Shoebury Common Beach for what could actually be a windy-as-hell, full-onshore chopfest this time, assuming the breeze holds south-westerly. 👉 Hold tight for the final call on Wednesday morning…

To be clear, every Wednesday it’s really important we know that everyone coming to Club is a competent stand-up paddler already (ie; able to stand up and paddle strong for 90+ minutes and not in need of a lesson to do so – which of course we offer via www.supsect.com/learn-to-sup). 🖤🧡 This is our 10th year of SUP Club and we have always been as inclusive as possible, but to ensure we stay that way we need to stress that Wednesdays are for capable paddlers not absolute beginners. ⚠ If in doubt, please just get in touch to ask!

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

All Saints Day II – thanks everyone who made SUP

All Saints Day II – thanks everyone who made SUP Club last night for a cruise downstream from Paper Mill Lock to All Saints Church, Ulting, and back with the easterly breeze in time for dinner at our favourite local pub. 🐴 Here's a couple of snaps on our way home past the horses...

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

SUP Club heads-up: it’s looking like an easterly

SUP Club heads-up: it’s looking like an easterly breeze is due to dominate this week, which will be too much for low tide at the coast. So we’re anticipating the All Saints loop from Paper Mill Lock on Wednesday evening, c.6pm. TBC with the full call on Wednesday morning.

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

Thanks all for another super-fun SUP Club last nig

Thanks all for another super-fun SUP Club last night – we cooled off with a splasharound from Shoebury Common Beach, which in the end didn’t turn out so choppy in a light westerly breeze… A little light cruising, plenty more step-back practice, topped off with some tricks before dinner at the 'spoons.

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SUP Club heads-up: still hard to tell exactly what

SUP Club heads-up: still hard to tell exactly what the breeze will do on Wednesday, but we’re confident it should allow us a coastal splasharound on the 6.32pm high tide. 💦 Not sure where yet: possibly 6ish at Shoebury East Beach for flat water if the wind veers westerly, although we might try later at Shoebury Common Beach for a full-onshore chopfest if it stays warm and firmly south-westerly. 👉 Hold tight for the final call on Wednesday morning…

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

It was a pretty different kind of SUP Club last ni

It was a pretty different kind of SUP Club last night – but our first ever freshwater splasharound was a winner… ☀️💦🦆🌿🐟 We stayed tight to @paper_mill_lock and while some opted to keep it chilled for some gentle cruising, many others went step-back crazy for the evening! 🖤🧡 After, massive thanks to the wonderful Willow Set for allowing us to stay on for a twilight picnic. 🍻🥂🥪🍗

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #supsocial

SUP Club heads-up: with all of the forecasts looki

SUP Club heads-up: with all of the forecasts looking scorchio, but way too windy for low tide at the coast, we’re thinking we might run a splasharound up at the river to cool down some. ☀️💦🌿🔥 Potentially with hire kit too, for graduates of our Learn to SUP lessons – so email lessons@supsect.com if you’re keen to reserve a board? ☝️ We won’t be going anywhere much, but practicing skills and tricks and maybe some fun and games. 🥳 We'd like to start a little later than 'normal' to suit the after-work crew, then after we’re hoping the Willow Set at Paper Mill Lock will allow us to stay on for a BYO picnic dinner. 🍻🥂🥨🥪🍗 Watch this space for confirmation with the final call on Wednesday morning…

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #supsocial

Learn to SUP: properly, safely and successfully...

Learn to SUP: properly, safely and successfully... 🏄‍♀️🏄 Quality paddleboard lessons since 2013 – with a stand-up guarantee!

SUP school’s had an amazing summer so far – here are some random snaps from the last couple of weeks. ☀️🌿💦 This year we’ve been teaching three or four days a week up at Paper Mill Lock on the River Chelmer. 👌 In our 10th season of instructing there, we take great pride in the super-high quality of our lessons: stand-up success guaranteed on our mixed public groups, plus families and private 3:1, 2:1, 1:1 sessions for beginners, improvers, intermediates and advanced paddlers with or without their own kit. 🤙 All fully BSUPA affiliated.

We still have a couple of spaces left in July and have recently opened up our August schedule for bookings. 📅 To see our availability and book online, click ‘book now’ via www.supsect.com

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SUP Club was a super-chilled super-sociable affair

SUP Club was a super-chilled super-sociable affair last night as a friendly little flotilla paddled our ‘home stretch’ of the River Chelmer from Paper Mill Lock to Stonham’s and back. 💦🦆🌿🐟🖤🧡 Look out for next week’s heatwave edition, which could potentially see the return of Secret SUP Club at our exclusive private launch?!?

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #supsocial

It’s been a tough, windy couple of weeks of raci

It’s been a tough, windy couple of weeks of racing on the national circuits – and SUPsect paddlers have done us proud!

Last weekend at the 70km Norfolk Broads Ultra endurance race, Al and Sara took the 2-day men’s and women’s inflatable titles. 🥇🥇 Saturday absolutely wasn’t a day for iSUPs in brutally windy conditions on the Broads, yet both of our paddlers dug deep to finish in strong positions. 💪 Then amongst a greatly depleted fleet of survivors on day two, they paddled to well-earnt victories following some solid training this year and last. 💥 Awesome work.

The previous weekend the GB SUP series hit Bournemouth for the BaySUP leg … racing in onshore winds and chest-high waves! 🌊 We’re super-pleased for our Welly who made age-group podium with 2nd Master in the distance race on his new home water in Dorset. ⭐️ Meanwhile Step-Back Stu won his Grand Kahuna age category while PaddleLogger Dave finished fourth in the 18-40s.

Well done all… 🙌

#supsect #raceclub #paddlestrong #supracing

SUP Club heads-up: it looks like the breeze could

SUP Club heads-up: it looks like the breeze could stay a couple of knots too strong and a few degrees too westerly for general coastal comfort on Wednesday’s high tide, so we’re anticipating a return trip to the river for a broadly similar evening to last week. 👀 TBC as usual with the full call on Wednesday morning…

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #supsocial

We made the most of a breezy but sunny afternoon o

We made the most of a breezy but sunny afternoon on Saturday for the latest of our monthly Water Wombles river-clean litterpicks from Paper Mill Lock on the River Chelmer. 🧹♻️🌿🦆💦 Our home stretch up to Stonham’s Lock was pleasingly pretty tidy on the whole – but with the water so clear and a keen bunch of pickers we were still able to remove more than a dozen bags-full of rubbish from the riverbed and banks. 🖤🧡🤿 Special mention to ‘Scuby’ Simon who went sub-aqua to retrieve the deepest debris!

#supsect #waterwombles #riverclean #litterpick

Thanks to Brown & Carroll London for their continued support with clean-up kit. 👀 More via our SUPsect Water Wombles FB group.

Thanks to everyone who made such a great atmospher

Thanks to everyone who made such a great atmosphere at SUP Club last night – we warmly welcomed several newcomers amongst the many regulars for a 7k loop from Paper Mill Lock to Stonham’s and back. 💦🦆🌿🐟🖤🧡 Another glorious summer’s evening on the river…

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #supsocial

SUP Club heads-up: looking at this week’s windy

SUP Club heads-up: looking at this week’s windy forecast, it’s a pretty safe bet we’ll be heading to the river on Wednesday. 🏄🏄🏼‍♂️🌿🦢🦆💦 TBC with the final call, but we’d expect c.6pm at Paper Mill Lock…

#supsect #supclub #wednesday #supsocial

SUP Club was big fun on Wednesday evening, when th

SUP Club was big fun on Wednesday evening, when the easterly breeze saw us go for a high tide splashabout from Two Tree Island. 💦 We ferried over to explore ’The Maze’ – then some chose to keep it chilled in the marshes whilst many of us got stuck into a full-on game of SUP rugby until the sun set. 🏉 After, revelling post-exam 6th-formers managed to close the Wetherspoons so 15 of us enjoyed a surprise curry night instead. 🍺🫓🌶 Perfect!

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

SUP Club heads-up update: this morning's forecasts

SUP Club heads-up update: this morning's forecasts have dawned a little breezier, nudging over sensible limits for everyone to comfortably return from Battlesbridge to Hullbridge tonight. 🤔 So we may need a rethink. 🤓 We'll be trying to keep it coastal so could be a splasharound somewhere instead. 💦 Stay tuned to FB (and www.supsect.com/sup-club) where we'll make the call on the lunchtime forecast updates...

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

SUP Club heads-up: it’s midsummer week and we ha

SUP Club heads-up: it’s midsummer week and we have a late evening high tide on Wednesday, so we’re hoping to make it coastal. 🤞 As long as the easterly breeze forecast stays light enough, possibly a jaunt up the Crouch from Hullbridge. ⚓️🏴‍☠️ Needn’t be too early – but will need to be stronger paddlers only…

#supsect #supclub #sup #wednesday

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Enormous thanks to our incredible hosts and their amazing team’s hard work for a sublime Secret SUP Club last night. 🙏 After a c.7k paddle from their secret launch spot on the Chelmer (with an added outback adventure start for some!) we were treated to an awesome barbecue dinner in a magical glade by the creek… 🍔🌭🥗🖤🧡 These few snaps definitely don’t do it justice, but it’s all we have for now.#supsect #supclub #wednesday #secretspot ... See MoreSee Less

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Secret SUP Club heads-up: we’re returning to our exclusive private launch spot on the River Chelmer this Wednesday. 🤫 And afterwards, our gracious hosts are laying on a BBQ for us too! 🍔🌭🥗 Be prepared; after this summer’s super-hot weather the duckweed has suddenly hit in quite a big way this last couple of days, so paddling could be a bit of a pea-souper in places. 🍃 Parking will be £5 plus hot food for £10pp for anyone wanting to stay on and eat. 👀 Look out for the event on Facebook & via www.supsect.co/sup-club later – then we’ll be moving to email for postcode details and BBQ numbers. #supsect #supclub #wednesday #secretspotTo be clear, every Wednesday it’s really important we know that everyone coming to Club is a competent stand-up paddler already (ie; able to stand up and paddle strong for 90+ minutes and not in need of a lesson to do so – which of course we offer via www.supsect.com/learn-to-sup). 🖤🧡 This is our 10th year of SUP Club and we have always been as inclusive as possible, but to ensure we stay that way we need to stress that Wednesdays are for capable paddlers not absolute beginners. ⚠ If in doubt, please just get in touch to ask! ... See MoreSee Less

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