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A Stormy Freedom Paddle – Part 2 – the Prone Course

A Stormy Freedom Paddle – Part 2 – the Prone Course

​The Prone paddlers set out with the long course participants, making some team and individual trips to Robben island. The four teams of 2 paddlers swopped out every 7.5 kilometres to make up the race distance. Their prone Freedom Paddle experience is described here...

A Stormy Freedom Paddle – Part 3 – the Long Course

A Stormy Freedom Paddle – Part 3 – the Long Course

Only three of seven paddlers stayed the full Freedom Paddle course. Conditions were gnarly enough to chase away even some of the very best. Due to this weather, the SUPS were prevented from rounding the island, but still did a hefty 22km there-and-back course, just...

The Xpression Wave Event

The Xpression Wave Event

The dawn of a lazy, rainy Muizenberg Saturday rolls in with glee as the bed beckons loudly…. but then you remember the surf comp is on and that trumps the call of the mattress!! Boards out, suits out…. and the memorable pull of the tide has you running! The gentle...

Waterfront sprint sessions

Waterfront sprint sessions

On a rare summer's day in Cape Town, between the stormy Cape Doctor’s south easterly gusts, we are presented with weather fit for paradise. Today our race day claimed that status, rewarding our paddlers with calm waters and sunny bliss. It was sprint racing that was...

Champions forged on the River by the elements

Champions forged on the River by the elements

Velddrif, home of the West Coast Canoe Challenge. "Sign up,” they said….. “It’ll be a flat water race,” they said…. The weather, however, seemed to think it was time for some effort after the lazy days of December, and blew in some challenges for the first race on the...

The end of the Pili Pili era

The end of the Pili Pili era

(Feedback by Gary Van Rooyen) Thursday’s forecast predicted epic KITING weather for the SUP race day!! The paddling die-hards tightened their tie-down straps and left home. They were off to the well-known Breede River Lodge hosting the “Pili Pili Whale of a Race" in...