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03/06/08 Wow! What a day Bristol was! And some Bristol Blue to show for it!

A brilliant days racing at Bristol, enjoyed by all (except Vairocana's head....) See the race report here.

21/04/08 Minutes of the last club meeting issued

Go to meetings for the minutes of the meeting held on 20th April 2008

18/04/08 Getting ready for Exeter!

The crew are staying in a B&B in Topsham, £65 per night B&B - call 01392 876121 Postcode EX3 0QJ for details. It is a pub called the George & Dragon. Don't forget to email Capn. Garry or Capness Sally to let them know whether you are coming or not!

18/04/08 Additional Minutes for last club meeting added

Click on "meetings" in the members area.

14/04/08 Liverpool Race Times are issued

Go to racing to see the overall race times.

11/04/08 Social Events - open to all!

Trotter has come up with the goods and provided us with some much needed social activities. Have a butchers at the social page and let Trotter know if you can make it!

11/04/08 Liverpool Race Report Added

Go to "Races" to read the latest report from Capn. Garry on the crews performance at the first BDA event held at Liverpool

11/04/08 Minutes of the last club meeting added

Please go to "Meetings" on the right hand link bar - email Kat if you have forgotten the password!

11/04/08 Henley Winter Series Results Added

We didn't do bad after all! Check out the racing page to see how we fared over all.

03/04/08 Leviathans training returns to Tuesdays

As the clocks have gone forward and we can enjoy lighter evenings, The junior crew will resume training on a Tuesday night at 6pm.

03/04/08 Our first race is looming!

Email Captn Garry with any queries or if you have any problems. Click here for a map to the venue. As the crew will be racing on Sunday 6th April - there will be no open crew training. Normal training will resume Sunday 13th April 2008 10am WIllen Lake.

27/02/08 A new nugget from our Coach!

Alan has provided details on paddle style - click on coaching tips to view this nugget.

25/02/08 Minutes of the last crew meeting uploaded

Click on Meetings on the right hand bar. You will need a password to open this document. If you do not know the password, please contact Kat.

25/02/08 Race report for Henley 2 Uploaded

Please go to racing to read the report from Capn Garrrrry.

15/02/08 Club Meeting

The next club meeting will be held after training on Sunday 24th February 2008 at 11am at the Lakeside Pub at Willen Lake. Please email agenda items, apologies or queries to our Secretary Gina.

15/02/08 Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival 2008 - Training

We are starting to take bookings for training for this years dragon boat festival (29th June). Training sessions will take place w/c 19th May on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6pm. Please email Kat if you have any queries or wish to book a session.

15/02/08 Updated Race Programme for 2008

The BDA have issued an updated programme for racing this year. Please go to racing to check the dates.

18/01/08 Updated constitution added

Yes, we are having a "catch-up on admin" day today! Go to the members area and click on club documents to view our updated constitution as agreed at the last meeting.

18/01/08 Minutes of the last meeting added

Please go to our members area and click on meetings. This document is password protected so only club members can gain access. If you need the password, please email Kat

17/01/08 A few photos from our Christmas party

Please go to our photo page to see some piccies of our Christmas do 2007

17/01/08 Willen Lake is Flooded...

Unfortunately, we will have trouble loading the boat, so training is off tonight...!

10/01/08 Training resumed on Thursday nights

Get down to the lake tonight as ladies training has resumed - 6pm till 7pm

05/01/08 Confirmed race dates for 2008

Click on Racing to check out the dates. Please email Cap'n Garry to advise which races you will be attending this year.

05/01/08 Raffle Ticket Money

Kat needs your raffle ticket stubs, unsold tickets and money. Please can you bring them to the next club meeting (06/01/08)

05/01/08 Next Club Meeting to be held tomorrow

Training commences at 9.45 to be on the water at 10am and the meeting will commence at 11am in the Lakeside Bar & Grill. The meeting will close at 12pm

18/12/07 Powerboat Courses:

Congratulations to Alan Grandy, Ray Mitchener and Garry Morris who all took part in an RYA Level 2 Powerboat course over the weekend. Us girlies (plus Alan and Aiden) who were working hard training on Sunday felt very safe knowing that the safety boats were being manned by our guys!

18/12/07 Social Update:

Christmas Eve 1.30pm at Salcey Forest - we will be taking the kids for a tree top walk, so bring a flask of something hot and some mince pies and enjoy a trek in the woods! Meeting in the car park at 1.30pm. Wrap up warm!

18/12/07 Raffle ticket selling

Some photo's have been added, see our Picasa photo page for a few pictures of our champion raffle ticket sellers with the car that will be the prize. Don't forget - keep flogging those tickets to your family over Christmas!

02/12/07 December Henley Update

We are unable to drum up enough interest for the next Henley, which is disappointing, however, we will be making a BIG effort for January's race. Also, as all of our members qualified in manning the safety boat are away, training is also cancelled for Sunday December 9th. So have a good weekend off and get fit and ready for the next training session on Thursday 14th.

02/12/07 New Photo Album Added

I was unable to make further changes to the website as we had run out of space, then Kirsty came up with the great idea of putting our photos on to Picasa. The link is on our Photo Album page.

29/11/07 Raffle Ticket Selling @ the Centre:MK

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Laura, Alan, Kat, John, Kyra and Maxine for their efforts at the Centre:MK on Friday. They raised over £160 for the Community Foundation Raffle of which 50% goes towards club funds

21/11/07 Quiz Night

The quiz night went very well and I got the impression that it was enjoyed by all! To view the photo's of the evening click here. We raised over £700 for the club and for Keech Cottage Childrens Hospice. The winners were: 3rd place - Egg Yolks, 2nd place - Pistificated Pells and 1st place - The Spukwits!

21/11/07 Henley Results

I am eagerly awaiting our first Captains report from Vice Captain Garry, in the mean time, go to racing to see the final results.

15/11/07 Getting ready for Henley!

Our new Assistant Captain Garry has jumped in with organising our first run of Henley this Sunday (18th November 2007).

For new Henley paddlers (and those who forget the way) here is a map to the Eyot Centre - Henley's base. Don't forget to get there nice and early so we can carefully take the boats off the trailers as per Ray's request.

15/11/07 AGM minutes and presentation added

Thanks to Anne for providing this information - click on meetings to review

13/11/07 Congratulations to Henley for completing their marathon paddle

Henley completed a 26mile marathon paddle in aid of The Lymphoma Association. 17 paddled for 6 hours to raise £2,200 for their Eyot Centre and the charity.  Having a recovering Hodgkins sufferer in our crew, we offer our congratulations to them and give them a big WELL DONE!

09/11/07 A reminder from Whitecap for everyone...

08/11/07 Our AGM done for another year!

Thank you to Kim and Ray for hosting us, Gina for feeding us and Abi for her very good attempts at keeping us in order! (With Anne's help of course!) Minutes and presentations to be posted later.

22/10/07 Race report and photo's from Nottingham National Finals added

Our Captains report on the finals and photos courtesy of Alan Sanders.

27/09/07 Training Photos Added

Click here to go to the photo album and view our training photos courtesy of Alan Sanders. To use a tip borrowed from Premier Ladies coach Griff - take one or two observations about your own technique with the aim of improving your own stroke. Use our message board if you want to share your observations about yourself...

20/09/07 Getting ready for Not'nam

We are all training hard - don't forget to email Chris to let him know you are coming. Alison is sorting Hotels and Chris is sorting Campsites.

18/08/07 Race reports from the last two events

Look how dedicated we are, these reports are being posted on the net from sunny Provence....Read reports

06/08/07 From Dragons to Monkeys....

Leviathans hit the high ropes - courtesy of the Community Foundation Horizon FM fund. See the photos here.

31/07/07 Tarts on Tour!

And here's the photo's to prove it! Anne, Abi and Kirsty - went to the Thames Hoedown Party after the Royal Albert Docks Event. Our baywatch babe certainly had fun! Click here to go to our photo page.

17/07/07 Hey look everyone! We're top of the standard league!

Yes...print it and frame it!

11/07/07 Cardiff Race Report

Another fantastic days racing getting into the cup (again! who would have though it!) Click here to go to Racing.

02/07/07 More nuggets!

John emailed out another nugget today. It's the one about teamwork, go to coaching tips if you haven't seen it...

02/07/07 Getting ready for Cardiff

Do you need a lift? John is co-ordinating lifts for the day, email John if you have a spare seat or need a lift. Also, if you need a map.

02/07/07 The next social

Trotter is busy organising the next social which will be held Northampton way soon. More details to follow.

02/07/07 Working Party puts a lush green carpet in our compound!

Excellent job carried out by the crew in transporting gravel and laying out astroturf to stop us getting muddy shoes! The next working party will be organised by Ray to clean out the boats and help Whitecap clean up one of their old boats. Date to be confirmed.

21/06/07 Liza & Alan bag a first for the club!

Corporate Sponsorship! Well done Liza & Alan! And thank you to Persimmon for donating cash to go towards a PA system. Now Emma can be heard throughout the boat! (I mean the other boats 500m away!)

18/06/07 Ray's Exeter 2007 Photos

You really must have a look - even if it is just for the bum shot! Photos

18/06/07 Controlled Capsize in Sunday's training

A very successful training exercise with great benefit to all. We all came away having learnt from a valuable experience and the kids enjoyed it far too much! See photos of the kids capsize

13/06/07 Leviathans Training

Jason - a photographer from the Local Network Fund - met with us to take some photos for LNF promotional material. At the same time, Montserrat (who is mum to crew members Ariadna and Georgina) also took some photos for our own website. See our photo album to view

13/06/07 Exeter race report

From El' Capitano

12/06/07 New nugget!

See Coaching Tips for info

11/06/07 Charity Festival Training Photos added

See Festival Training

11/06/07 Exeter 2007 - what a FANTASTIC weekend!

View crew base camp photo's courtesy of John and Kat and race day photo's courtesy of Mark and Lucinda here

06/06/07 Secklow BBQ Photos added

See the evidence! Charlies Angels get revenge on the Cap'n! See our photo album for the party photos.

04/06/07 Liverpool Race Photos

Abi's family took some photos of us doing a cracking job - click here to go to our photo album

04/06/07 Royal Victoria Docks Racing

Read Captn's comments here

31/05/07 A few bits added for discussion

Following the Secklow/Whitecap meeting, we need to discuss car parking, capsize and powerboating. I have posted threads on the message board (go to groupboard, click on messages) so you can respond back without me emailing everyone!

28/05/07 Added Coaching Tips

See Coaching Tips for more details (added by John his first ever attempt at web authoring so please go easy on him!).

25/05/07 Capt'n sets Kat a challenge - a few lines of HTML later and we have a message/chat/whiteboard!

Thanks to groupboard.com - we have a new facility available for messages, chat, games and whatever a whiteboard does! Click on groupboard and enjoy!

25/05/07 Scott's 3rd Birthday

16th June 2007 - Scott is having a swash-buckling pirate party - see social for more details

23/05/07 View John's Nuggets - now on-line!

See Training for more details

23/05/07 Kat gets told off by Captain! (Again)

Chris has reprimanded me for forgetting his Liverpool race report. Sorry Chris - it's on there now! Kat

23/05/07 Secklow Summer BBQ arranged

Go to Social for more details

23/05/07 Abi & Emma are hitting the big 30!

Emma is celebrating her birthday at Secklow 100 pub at 7.30pm on Friday 25th May (upstairs)

Abi is celebrating with some mad wakeboarding! Meet at Abi's house at 12pm on Sunday 17th June. Email AbigaileBromfield@englishpartnerships.co.uk for more info.

23/05/07 Exeter Camping

Karen is booking up the campsite - please email k753@btinternet.com and how many nights you are staying (most of us are camping the Saturday and Sunday night, some only Saturday night as they have to get back to work on Monday morning :-( !)

We are also having a BBQ, bring your own tucker to sling on the barbie....

22/05/07 Liverpool Race Report

This one wasn't wet, but it nearly blew us away! Liverpool

15/05/07 Bristol Race Report

They had a really wet time bless 'em! Bristol

15/05/07 Secklow top 30 crews for Charity Festival Training!

A record for the most amount of crews trained up for the Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival. Each of these crews will be trained in the evenings - Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, for six weeks up to the festival date. We have an army of volunteers from the club, giving up their time freely to help raise funds for the club. A real team effort.

25/04/07 Leviathans are accepted for the Local Network Fund!!

The Milton Keynes Local Network Fund have awarded Secklow Leviathans funds for the purchase of one baby dragon boat, paddles, youth size buoyancy aids and t-shirts.

Crew Manager Kat is over the moon at the support provided and is looking forward to blessing and racing the new boat with the Junior Crew.

22/04/07 Fantastic Fundraising Events planned for 2007

See our Social page for more details

15/04/07 Our first race of the season gains us 15 points in the 200m races!

Read our race report for Stockton on Tees