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Special club session on Sunday 24th November

It’s now been about 6 months since you took up the GGBC £10 Boathouse challenge and it’s  time to collect in all the profits made to date.

We are holding a special club session on Sunday 24th November and as well as a longer than usual row through the lock at Mapledurham we would like you to bring along all the money you have made from the various fundraising activities that have taken place over the last few months.

It will be an opportunity to have an update on the progress with the planning application for the boathouse and celebrate your fundraising activities. If you haven’t managed to put your £10 note to good use yet, come along and get some ideas from others who have used it to generate more funds. If you would like to keep your £10 and continue fundraising, that’s fine – just let me have any profits to date.

If you can’t make it on this date, please get in touch so that I can arrange to collect your fundraising efforts (boathouse challenge and loose change jars).

Many thanks for all your efforts and I look forward to seeing you on 24th November.

Ros Crowder
ros.crowder@btinternet.com

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Special Club Session this Saturday

If you are free on Saturday morning, please come along to our special Club session starting at 9am. For a change, we plan to row our boats under Whitchurch bridge, through the lock, and up to the railway bridge at Lower Basildon (and back!!). The distance is not great (each way is roughly equivalent to rowing our normal route from boathouse to Whitchurch to Mapledurham to boathouse) but it will be an opportunity to enjoy a different stretch of the river. All the boats will be back before 11am in time for coffee and refreshments. We would like to scull and row, and – as always – all standards of ability and fitness will be catered for. Currently it is forecast to be dry on Saturday morning.

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Boat maintenance on Sunday

Sue writes: I’m sorry to say that the river will be awash with canoes and kayaks on Sunday morning so we won’t be rowing.

But I’m happy to say that this means we are going to devote some time on Sunday morning to maintaining, rigging and doing basic repairs to some of our boats……..and we need your help.

If you can spare an hour or so please come along to the boat club at 10am as usual on Sunday morning and give a hand.

Also, Andy McKenzie, our Captain of Boats, is keen to put together a team of boat repairers who could give him a hand from time to time to keep our boats in working order. Being stored outside takes a toll on the woodwork and general state of the boats so if you feel you would be able to lend a hand occasionally, please let Andy know on Sunday. Or if you can’t make Sunday, but are interested, please e-mail Andy andy@mckenzieweb.co.uk. You don’t need prior experience as Andy will oversee the work.

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Special event Saturday 31st August, 10am

A special Club session is planned for Saturday 31st August starting a little later than usual at 10am. Our friends from Adventure Dolphin will be paddling down in their kayaks for an “exchange visit”. You will have an opportunity to try out canoeing under their guidance and supervision, and then we will try to teach them to row. Bacon rolls will be provided by the Purley and Pangbourne scouts in return for a small donation. It should be a fun morning so please make a special effort to come along.