Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

We are trying to work out how to run the British Open this year. If we run this at Lee Valley which we are planning to, we will need to meet significant costs for the site and in particular the pumps. At the ACM it was agreed that where required races could charge higher fees. As there is a signific...

Thanks Jane. I would also note thanks for the effort of the huge number of volunteers which made it happen. Volunteers outnumbered the paddlers and did extremely well in the less than seasonable conditions at Lee Valley.

Final start list now done and am aiming that we will run to these times regardless now barring something unpredictable! Hopefully will be up on the website soon. If there is an RTC marked against you then it generally means you sent £29.75 instead of £30, you can see you were not alone. I do not wan...

Provisional Start List is done and has been eMailed to everyone who has given me an eMail address, assuming I could read it correctly on the cards. Quite a few have failed!!!

If you want a start list before it gets posted on the website then I will respond to eMail requests.

Sorry but I have no idea at the moment. GB Canoeing is responsible for the spectator side of the event. If I can get an answer I will post it or could you take up directly with them.

Hi All I have clarified with GB Canoeing what the intent was with the fees. Please nobody worry I will sort it all out fairly at Lee Valley if not before. It should be as follows: Paddler A paddles in K1 & C1 - fee £30. Paddler A paddles in C1 & C2 with paddler B who doesn't paddle another class - t...

I still have a ring which was found at Tully in the showers at Station Yard.

Anyone who can describe it properly to me can be reunited with it.

I am getting questions about the timing of racing. Below is a very provisional outline, names will be populating this week and will be published as soon as I can. There are quite a number of 25p's to collect for those that have sent me a double entry fee instead of £30. Panic not. It also seems ther...

Could any affected please get their entries in as soon as possible as I am now starting to recover from the epic Tully Race and need to get on with Selection. Happy to get an eMail with all your details in advance of cheques which should be payable to the BCU Slalom Committee. Any volunteers with ru...

Hi Duncan, great effort. We have discovered a 'bug' in the Timing system software. It cannot cope with the same paddler paddling in the same class. This can only happen in C2 but we now have one paddler in Prem / Div 1 who is ranked twice with two different partners. We have to alter the spelling of...

Thank you to all the volunteers who enjoyed truly Baltic conditions including the Sunday snow on the riverbank for hours on end as we dispatched a wonderfully large entry down stream. Thank you to all the competitors and those who made the trek to get them there. The competition was intense at times...

We are full to bursting point so unless you have been promoted in the last few days there are no race slots left. I would though still welcome judges as we are monumentally short of these particularly on Saturday and we may yet have to invoke the rule that allows us to use paddlers to judge. Late en...

First the good news. We are having some sunshine and although start this last weekend did send out for his mankini (thankfully he never got it on!) it is still very cold although a couple of degrees warmer. It is dropping below freezing at night but there is a possibility we will just make double fi...

Perhaps CP is in need of some education, easterly winds are inherently colder than westerlies, stamping of the feet does little to keep them warm what is needed is insulation for the whole body so that warmth can be delivered to the extremities and silk bloomers and long johns have much to commend t...

Well you all seem to be getting entries in promptly this year - Thanks. It looks as though we may have one great race to equal if not beat that which we managed last year. I aim to accept all entries up to and including this coming weekend and will publish on the web site a provisional start list ea...