This year as it is our first year at Stanton we decided to have a HCC/Stanton Lakes open day, the idea was to promote Stanton Lakes, the Canoe Club and promote paddlesport in the local area.
We had Canoe, Kayak and stand-up paddle board “go canoeing” come and try it sessions. These were fully booked up all day with over 130 visitors on the water, some of them more than once.
It was great to see lots of new faces, some old members and friends from other clubs come and join us. Canoe kayak Trader bought some demo boats down for everyone to try out. We also had a raft race with three teams entering, two HCC teams and a team from National grid (team Jonny)
Off the water there was a circus skill workshop with juggling, tight rope walking, unicycling and lots of other things going on, the Ergo machine competition was very popular with some very quick times from everyone. Well done to Stuart Duncombe for winning the £20 Stanton restaurant voucher. The kids loved the face painting and everyone loved the amazing freestyle jet ski demos.
A big thank you to the team at Stanton, Steve Burrows (circus skills and raft race), Keith Wraight(SUP), Kieran and Callum(Canoe Kayak Trader),the jet ski guys, Jack Ford(Canoe England) and obviously all the HCC helpers on and off the water for all your hard work before and on the day. I think we should be very proud of ourselves as a club for making the day such a massive success.
Dave Clarke
