"A bright crisp morning with mist over the water welcomed 20+ paddlers to DCC annual Brathay wildwater race. Competitors from Yorkshire, Nottingham, Ambleside and Carlisle CC joined a good turn out from Duddon to make a great days racing. Water level had fallen almost a metre in 3 days so the occasional rock lurking just below the surface nudged a few paddlers off their prefered line!!
Medals for age groups and GP, WWR K1, WWR C1 , Wavehoppers and OC boats ment most of us went home with something to add to the trophy cabinet and illustrates the great versatility of Wildwater racing.
Thanks to race organiser Andy and all the other helpers that made this another great day on the water."
 John Sherwen

​"As part of the Saturday 1pm Docks Sessions offered recently, members asked about River paddling. Over the past few weeks those members have been learning some new skills at the docks, ready for a getting onto moving water, which happened today at the slalom section of the River Leven.
Everyone did extremely well, moving on from the slow water quite quickly. The day was not without incident, with a couple of people learning about controlling the lean of the boat the wet way, but only after advancing onto the faster water.
A big well done to all, and I hope you enjoyed it. The next step is to come and play on a river trip." DCC Coach Andy Longstaff
 

​"Only the hardy adults avoided the dreaded lurgy which is laying low the youth of the club. A dozen adults had a very enjoyable (and peaceful) trip round the north end of Coniston Water. Starting at Monk Coniston we drifted east over the mirror like surface down to Fur Island where a leisurely lunch was taken. Rested and fed our 6 kayaks and 4 open canoes made for the west shore and so north to the head of the lake. It was great to catch up with old friends and gossip about past exploits and future plans. I expect any juniors reading this will be glad they missed out on all this excitement!!" John Sherwen. Great pictures of the day by Carol and Andy.

​The conditions were good at the docks this afternoon so three groups took to the water, race training, oc training and general paddle. DCC welcomed visitors from down south today. They all enjoyed being out on the water for a paddle. Afterwards it was all into the brew cabin for tea before watching some great fireworks from the dock side. A great time was had by all. Thanks go to Scott for organising a great evening.

Saturday evening saw DCC members and friends dance the night away to the Ceilidh band "Wooden Leg" as we all got together to help John celebrate his 70th Birthday held at Pennington Memorial Hall. A great evening was had by all who were kept will fed by an assortment of lovely food everyone had brought along aswell as a couple of  fantastic birthday cakes baked by Kirsty and Carol. After a round of Happy Birthday, John gave it his best shot at blowing out the candle!!!! Happy Birthday John from us all.

Sunday 6th October saw DCC race team travel over to Bollington where they raced on the Macclesfield Canal.
“Although it looked like being a wet race, all cleared up while we were on the water. Our 6 divisional paddlers all completed their races. Daniel did well to recover from a swim - an honour previously held by Scott and I think Lee. Connor kept up well in his race until he had to stop to empty his boat!! The weight of water gathered on the way to Macclesfield had resulted in an unnoticed crack in the hull. Kirsty and Michelle in the K2 just failed to get silvers as the boat ahead 'accidently' swerved each time they tried to overtake. The 3 lightning paddlers made up for the rest of us by all winning GOLD. Well done Teigan, Ryan and Riley.
Although we were the 4th team - out of 4 - it was great to see so many top paddlers there, especially from Runcorn. The team results are worked out from the points of the top 12 club paddlers - there were 14 Runcorn and 15 Macclesfield paddlers and as I've calculated it they both scored 231 from a total possible 240 points.”
John Sherwen

​“Passing flooded section of road and windscreen wipers doing double time did not bode well as we made are way to Borwick Hall for the South Lakes Hasler Marathon. Once we were completely drenched and all was set to go the rain stopped, not to return until we were on the way home 4 or 5 hours later. Gradually the number of boats arriving increased until quite a queue formed at the registration desk - over 40 paddlers from all over the north of England had arrived to test themselves against each other. It was good to see a good turn out of top paddlers for the long 21K race. Our U12 and U10 paddlers all did well in the 2k race.
We had 13 members on the water, with many first timers who joined DCC in the summer gaining valuable point in the beginners Div 9. The team results were very close with Runcorn on 176 and Duddon top with 189 (one less div 9 paddler and we would be 2nd) 
Thanks go to all the participants from near and far but special thanks to the 10+ club members who's help on the day made it such a success.”
John Sherwen