Christmas Party is on!
50th Celebration Report
Annual Awards
New Double Sea Kayak
Lotterwest Grant
Weeding
Boat Hire Officer Appointed
Coming Events
Christmas Party is on! 16th Dec: novelty paddle at 5:30pm, dinner at 7pm
Somewhat late notice but the Committee decided we will have a Christmas Party this year (having recovered sufficiently from the two 50th events!). There are two parts:
– An optional novelty paddle at 5:30pm with prizes – more details soon. You could alternatively consider going in the normal Paddle Bash and give Andy a real challenge!;
– A dinner at 7pm – bring your own food and drink, as we had a couple of years ago.
We hope to see you there!
50th Celebration Afternoon Tea Report and Photos – online now
Our November 50th anniversary events were a great success and lots of photographs and other details have been uploaded for you to view at this web page.
Many thanks again to everyone who made the events happen – you should feel very proud since we have received many positive comments from the invitees.
Annual Awards
At the 50th evening party we announced our annual Club award recipients:
Junior Paddler of the Year: Alexandria Choate who represented Australia at the Junior World Slalom Championships in Poland, competed for Australia in New Zealand and Japan, and did very well at last year’s Australian Championships.
Paddler of the Year: Zlatan Ibrahimbegovic who successfully coached four of the six juniors who made the Australian Junior Slalom Team this year, and also coached an Olympian at Rio. Despite recovering from shoulder surgery he represented WA at the National Championships and has done so for many years, helping to bring awards back to WA and to our Club.
Club Member of the Year: Marion Ewing who for over a year coordinated the arrangements for both our 50th events, coordinated all the junior paddling programs, and keeps the backend of our flaky membership database functioning.
New Double Sea Kayak
We have taken delivery of a new Delta 20T double sea kayak at add to our fleet of Club boats – it lives in Aisle C:
Lotterwest Grant for Building Works
We have been granted $53,000 by Lotterywest to help fund the stairwell widening and wheelchair lift, and additional ramps on the southern side of the building – they were particularly impressed by our initiatives to encourage disabled people into paddling. Thanks for Kerry Hughes who did most of the work for the grant application. This work and the enhanced balcony area will go ahead when we receive Council approval.
Weeding
Many thanks to the paddlers who have weeded the area to the west of the Clubrooms and along the steps. We hope to revegetate this area with natives next autumn. There are white garden waste bags in the foyer. We are hoping to remove the weeds all the way back up the hill so if you have a spare half hour after paddling grab a bag and have a go! The early Tuesday paddlers will have another go next Tuesday (6th) from 9am if anyone would like to join us. Town of Mosman Park will take away the weeds when the bags are full. Don’t forget to bring gardening gloves and any tools you like to use.
Boat Hire Officer Appointed
You can now hire boats from the Club again thanks to Janet Stanford volunteering for this job. Please go to our website here for details.
Coming Events (see our website calendar for full details):
3rd Dec – Guided paddle to Pt Walter
4th Dec – Penguin Island – Sea Kayaking
11th Dec – Introduction to kayaking course
14th Dec – Moonlight Paddle
16th Dec – Christmas Party
18th Dec – Introduction to paddling a sea kayak course
14th Jan – Introduction to kayaking course
26– 29th Jan – Broke Inlet weekend
North Cott. SLS are holding a new event on Sat. 10th of Dec., the inaugural Sand Tracks Christmas Classic. 11.75km – details: http://www.ncslsc.com/news/2016-sand-tracks-christmas-classic
Regular Peer Paddles – read what this means here:
Saturday: meet at about 10am at Walter’s Café, Pt Walter
Tuesday: leave at 7:30 or 9:30am for a trip to Walter’s Café, Pt Walter
Friday: leave at 8:00am for a trip to Zephyr Café, East Fremantle
Friday nights – Paddle Bash at 5:45pm – a friendly race against your own best time and social drink if you make it back.