Kayaking

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  10 July 2012     14:30182176
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  i was asked earlier where this could be done locally, needs to be a safe location suitable for young children.
  
  i could only think of the royal military canal but no doubt one or more of our members will come up with others.
• Guest 710

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  10 July 2012     15:41182180
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  http://www.kentsport.org/canoeing.cfm
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  10 July 2012     17:27182193
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  thanks for that tom i will pass it on, not much locally though i notice.
• Guest 717

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  10 July 2012     17:40182195
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  You can hire sea kayaks at Dover Sea Sports Centre. Pretty safe in the harbour with adult supervision
  Keeps politics to myself
• Guest 703

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  10 July 2012     17:43182196
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  There's always the water sports centre. My kids and myself learnt in the swimming pool, that was fairly safe.
  
  http://www.canoe-england.org.uk/ - membership gives you a licence for various Kent waterways, it's a general rule that there's only free access on tidal waters.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  10 July 2012     17:49182198
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  thanks to helen and ray, not sure how i didn't think of the sea sports centre.
• Guest 698

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  10 July 2012     18:43182202
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  I remember being told many years ago of an Eskimo who used to get very cold on his fishing trips in his canoe. He bought a little paraffin stove which he lit on cold nights to keep him warm. Unfortunately one night a wave rocked the canoe and the stove fell over, setting fire to the boat. Despite his best efforts the canoe was lost, although luckily he was picked up by another boat a little while later. This proves that you cannot have your kayak and heat it.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  10 July 2012     18:46182205
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  you should be taken out and shot for that peter.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  10 July 2012     18:46182206
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  very droll peter.
• Guest 653

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  11 July 2012     07:06182264
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  You ought to be on the stage - it leaves in ten minutes !!
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 735

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  11 July 2012     11:23182338
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  Dover Sea Sports Centre - Ideal http://www.doverseasports.co.uk/