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Please do, if interested in a winter meet up in Nov - it needs a home NOW!
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Post by Mark »

What about Whitefriars ? West Oxfordshire are very friendly as well (meal at the Rose Revived?)
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West Oxford or Baltic Wharf, then (we did Whitefriars last Jan)I think if we sound them both out we should get a result, and a good place to eat and sail either way. Thank you Mark and Ed. Opinions on which would be preferred, please! (which is better for plankers???!)
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Quite early on in the rather steep learning curve of trying to get to grips with the sliding seat on the canoe, I found myself sailing from bank to bank at Roadford and therfore only occasionally risking a tack. Considering this a potential problem, I came to the conclusion that I would take the IC down to Baltic Wharf, where I have found that a 20ft high stone wall does wonders for your concentration and quickly persaudes you to keep tacking. Of corse the day I chose it was rather windy....and I not only got to practice my tacking but also my capsize drill.

Sailing plankers on the docks is certainly possible....but you will certainly get a sorer bum than normal as you will need to be pretty atheltic going in and out.

Like to see it though!

I will email guys at Baltic Wharf and see if there is any enthuisiasm.

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I remember being well intertained by Alan in his int Moth in Baltic Warf so a conoe seat should provide excellent spectator sport for anyone not wishing to sail - good view from the pub I seem to remember, what more can you want? (except a cruise down the Avon perhaps!!)
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Bugger that - I'll bring the Tideway as I'd prefer to take a varnished arm chair out this time. International Canoes, concentrationa and solid walls does not sound like a good combination.
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There is another item hiding down below! Please scroll down to the events string!
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