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Latest Club News 2010-08-30 |
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RACE REPORT:Sunglass Hut K2 10 km Challenge |
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A very interesting canoeing innovation was launched last evening (Wednesday 11th August) by the Milnerton Canoe Club, with their ‘Sunglass Hut 10km K2 Challenge’ and drew good initial response by paddlers from all the clubs in the Western Cape. The idea was to create a different ‘vibe’ in canoe racing for K2 (double canoes) where elite’ paddlers could be paired off with paddlers of lesser stature and this by an auction process to raise funds for the various canoe clubs. As a result, in the week prior to the event, at canoe clubs around the Peninsula, elite paddlers were auctioned off to the highest bidders and so a very mixed and interesting group of K2 crews took to the water at Milnerton |
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SUNGLASS GLASS HUT K2 CHALLENGE RESULTS |
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MCC PADDLERS MAKE SA MARATHON TEAM |
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HUGE Congratulations to MILNERTON CANOE CLUB paddlers who have been selected as part of the SA MARATHON TEAM to go to the WORLD MARATHON CHAMPS. u18 Ivan Kruger Melanie van Niekerk u23 Lance King Bianca Beavit Senior Woman Lindi May Harmsen Grand Masters Roeloff Van Riet |
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Welcome to Milnerton Canoe Club, the oldest canoe club in the Western Cape and one of the most well-represented canoe clubs in the country at all levels of paddling. See article Club History for how it all started. 
We generally are a friendly bunch, and most of us know what it feels like to start a new sport in a round-bottomed, needly contraption that just does not want you to be in it and takes every opportunity to turf you out, holding paddles that in the beginning seem to be your enemy rather than your friend. Then suddenly it all comes together, and you’re hooked. The rest of us know what it means to be the all-important “second” who functions as driver, provider of sustenance (and a dry towel) and listener to the war stories of the latest canoeing experience. |
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Milnerton Canoe Club History – From Then to Now Strange as it may seem, MCC actually has its roots in Bellville.Willem van Riet, with the support of his father Oom Willem and a few friends from the Bellville area, had the crazy idea to launch the sport of Canoeing in the Western Cape by organising a race from Paarl to Velddrif in a similar vein as the Duzi Marathon in Natal, which runs from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. And so, in 1961, the Bellville Canoe Club, organiser of the first Berg River Marathon, was born. |
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