The dates for next year's Charity Paddle are Saturday 2007-03-10 and Sunday 2007-03-11, as the following weekend clashes with the Canoe Show, as currently advertised. I made the mistake of changing to avoid that clash in 2006, only to find that Crufts had taken the weekend originally advertised for the OS Outdoor Show, which had moved to clash with our event once more. But this year, I see that Crufts are advertising the 10th/11th. Details will also be on the club website at Swale Charity Paddle homepage, and on the Info sheet document which you can download from the links below.
| Printable Charity Paddle Documents for Download | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Document | Open Document Text (OpenOffice.org .odt) |
Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat .pdf) |
Legacy .doc (MSWord) |
| Info Sheet | CP_Info.odt | CP_Info.pdf | CP_Info.doc |
| Entry Form | CP_Entry.odt | CP_Entry.pdf | CP_Entry.doc |
| Sponsor Form | CP_sponsor.odt | CP_sponsor.pdf | CP_sponsor.doc |
If you have a colour printer, you might like to use our 2007 advertising poster in your local club or gear shop. The high-resolution version is about 2 Mb (ie. quite big - don't bother with this if you don't have broadband) and prints nicely at 300dpi for A4 (this is the resolution saved in the file). 240 dpi will give good quality at A3, or 220 dpi will fill the paper a bit more fully and looks nearly as good. If you only want to print A4 and think 2 Mb is a bit big to download, there's a reduced-resolution version which works OK at 150 dpi on A4 - but will probably look crap if you push it to A3. This is under 400 kb, which is not an unreasonable download, even on a phone line (and it won't clobber my server quite so much:).
There's also a more detailed four-page river guide with photos, which is a 700k download as a .pdf only (the way the pictures were imported means that Open Office saves them as huge files as .odt or .doc). This probably contains more detail than you really want to read - remember that guidebooks always make rivers sound much more difficult and frightening than they turn out to be when you actually paddle them, especially when you are in a big friendly group. It also contains some info on running Richmond Falls which is not part of the Charity Paddle - choosing to run this is entirely your own responsibility.
S.O.C. Members looking to volunteer to help on the weekend ? There is a List of jobs with current volunteers. Please email me at cp2007@pennine.demon.co.uk with your preferred job and time. Note that this email address will be removed from all systems here on the evening of 2007-03-11 (it will be replaced with an address appropriate to the 2008 CP, which I'll leave you to guess:) - all other correspondence should go to my usual address.
The 2008 Charity Paddle is far enough off that we haven't set a date yet, but the fishing season starts on March 25th, so 22nd/23rd ought to be our choice. However, that's Easter weekend, so 8th/9th is actually more likely. My guess for 2009 would be 21st/22nd March.
For information on the club's activities, see the main club website. Canoe section also maintains a (perhaps more up-to-date) webpage of it's Planned Activities.
Andy
