Based in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland our Stornoway Canoe Club enjoys some of the best canoeing in the world, from remote sea paddling to exhilarating surf kayaking. Our site endeavors to provide information and inspiration to both members and visitors alike.
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Steve Mackinnon will be holding the level two assessment on the weekend of August the 15th Venue is still to be decided,other training will be given on that weekend still to be decided on. If any Level Two trainees can not make that date we will arrange another assessment date for them.
Well done to Bennie who paddled to St Kilda solo this week, 8 hours from haisker to St Kilda and 13 hours on the return trip to boraray.
It’s looking pretty wild so there will be no Canoe Club at Cuddy Point this Thursday.
Pool sessions are now finished and sea sessions have started at Cuddy Point.
Beginners (until school holidays) - 7pm to 8pm
All others - 8pm to 9.30pm
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Saturday’s forecast was for light northerly winds… ideal for the 10 mile trip round Scarp. Only Christine and DA turned out at 9am and so it was off to sunny Husinis!
The wind was a little more than forecast but a clockwise route would make the last leg the easiest so we headed out west into the swell… some good paddling (and nearly three hours) later, dodging breakers, fresh air strokes and just occasionally remembering to look at the Island we reached the calm waters and stunning beach opposite the island of Cearstaigh.
From here it was all downhill… well apart from the surf landing at the village where the workers could remember the “lady with a nail in her foot” from the St Kilda trip two yeas ago.
A downwind push back to the slipway and then all we had to do was keep DA awake on the way back to Stornoway!
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