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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Nottingham April Sprint Regatta,

News from sunny Nottingham 16/17th April where temperatures reached 22 degrees and for once the wind blew the right way (on Sunday only).

Salmon Leap was the biggest club at the regatta, represented by 17 juniors and 5 seniors.

Well done to Fergus and Tadhg McTiernan, Kate McCarthy, Juliet Sweeney, Adam Kenny, Brian McGuinness, Míceál Cróc, Jack Seery and (a late starter) Sean O Casaide, who were all competing in their first Nottingham regatta and represented the club extremely well. Indeed, everyone who competed for SLCC were a credit to the club.

Many thanks to all those who helped out over the weekend: A Durrant, A Egan, S Sweeney, S O Casaide, A McGuinness, B Devenney, P Grimes, C O Reilly, G O Hagan, F McTiernan S McCarthy and I McCarthy.

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Results: Saturday’s Finals

Boys D K4 1000m Final:

1st. C Cróc/R Brady/F and D Devenney.

2nd. J Seery/A Kenny/B McGuinness/M Cróc

Girls D K1 1000m B Final:

8th Juliet Sweeney

Boys C K2 1000m Final:

2nd. J O Hagan/D O Reilly.

Boys B K1 1000m B Final.

3rd Iomhar Mac Giolla Phádraig.

Boys D K2 1000m A Final

1st C Cróc/D Devenney

2nd. F Devenney/R Brady

3rd. M Cróc/J Seery

5th. B McGuinness/K O Neill

Womens A/B K1 500m Final 1

7th J Egan

Boys C K1 1000m Final

1st B O Casaide

3rd D O Reilly

7th D Grimes

Masters K4 1000m Final

2nd Sean O Casaide/V Pierce/B Buggy/L McCarthy

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Boys B K2 1000m Final

4th I Mac Giolla Phádraig/A Forristal

Mens A/B 200m B Final

2nd P Egan

9th A Strevens

Boys D K1 1000m Final 1

1st D Devenney

2nd C Cróc

5th F Devenney

6th R Brady

8th A Kenny

Boys D K1 1000m Final 2

3rd M Cróc

5th J Seery

8th B McGuinness

Womens A/B 200m Final 1

9th J Egan

Boys B/C K4 1000m Final

2nd I MacGiolla Phádraig/D Mitchell/A Forristal/S McCarthy

5th D Grimes/J O Hagan/D O Reilly/B O Casaide

Mens A/B K2 200m Final

4th P Egan/T Brennan

Results: Sunday’s Finals

Mens A/B K1 200 Final 2

3rd P Egan

5th T Brennan

9thA Strevens

Boys D K1 500m Final 1

1st D Devenney

2nd F Devenney

4th R Brady

7th C Cróc

Boys D K1 500m Final 2

1st M Cróc

3rd A Kenny

8th B McGuinness

Boys D K1 500m Final 3

1st J Seery

Boys B K2 500m Final

4th I Mac Giolla Phadraig /A Forristal

Boys C K1 500m Final

1st B O Casaide

6th D Grimes

8th J O Hagan

Womens A/B 200m Final 1

7th J Egan

Mens A/B K2 200m Final 1

6th P Egan/T Brennan

Boys B/C K4 500m Final

2nd S McCarthy/J O Hagan/D Grimes/D O Reilly

Mens B K1 500m Final 1

2nd T Brennan

Boys D K4 500m Final

1st. C Cróc/R Brady/F and D Devenney.

2nd. J Seery/A Kenny/B McGuinness/M Cróc

Girls D K1 500m Final 2

3rd J Sweeney

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Hero Verses Hero

So earlier this month we received our first shipment of 2011 Jackson Hero’s.  “So what’s big the difference?” you may ask and indeed we wondered ourselves.

Time for a little side by side comparison – I’ll let the photos do the talking:

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More specs on the 2011 Hero and purchasing info can be found here:

http://www.i-canoe.com/Kayaks/Whitewater/River+Running+Kayaks/Jackson+Kayak+Hero+2011+-+S%25252FL.html

For a great deal on a 2010 Hero see here (while stocks last):

http://www.i-canoe.com/Kayaks/Whitewater/River+Running+Kayaks/Jackson+Kayak+Hero+2008.html

For the official 2011 Hero Promo Video, see below:

Friday, April 1, 2011

Jackson Rockstars are here!

So after months of hype and speculation followed by a week of camping out waiting for the delivery they finally arrive!

delivery

shorter than the all star with more volume this boat is definately going to be special, so with that in mind we found our special friend to take a seat in the small size.

walshy rockstar

I luckily having been their all week managed to take first pick and decided on a beautiful blue/white colour

my rockstar

So with a new boat I headed to the WWKC pool session with both my boat and the demo to give the juniors a taste of the new toy!

heres the video put together by Conor Macken showing the first session out, Il happily say theirs plenty more to come when the water returns,

Rockstar first pool session

along with the Rockstars came the new 2011 Hero in funky Rasta colours heres colm giving it the thumbs up.

colm hero