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Summer 2021 issue 60 contents
Check it out! The Paddler magazine summer issue…
The International magazine for recreational paddlers
Foreword
Richard Harpham
The Paddler is 60 issues old
Seven favourites from the first year of 2012/13:
Riding the tears of Buddha Sri Lanka
The Riviera paddlers
From Trondheim to the North Cape
Crashing into… Venezuela
Canada – From sea to sea
Polar bears and SUPs
Pyranha Team Tour of Europe
The Long Paddle continues
By Sarah Thornely
Testing, testing
VE Explorer
Ainsworth SUP One Piece Carbon paddles
Red Original Towel Robes
Canoe poling part two
By Ray Goodwin
Full speed astern part 1
By Marc Ornstein
Ocean8Challenge completed
By Sal Montgomery
An interview with…
Ottilie Robinson-Shaw
Necessity
By Corran Addison
Galician white water
By Bartosz Czauderna
Canoe Focus
British Canoeing’s 24-page magazine
Safety device or deaeth trap?
By Paul Hyman
Paddling history
By Richard Harpham
A Scottish pilgrimage
By Richard Janes & Geth Roberts
Time for tea, and a chat with… Jon White
By Annabel Taylor-Ross
Coaching: decision making on the water
By Chris Evans – lead instructor at Plas Y Brenin
Discover the tidal Thames
By Wanda Bodnar and Paul Hyman
Staycation focus on Essex
By Anne Egan
Chris Van Vliet on the water
By Zack Teperman
Cover: Ottilie Robinson-Shaw
Photo: Harry Price
Additional thanks to:
Will Reddaway, Dimitri Vandepoele, Jennifer Gibbon, Ashley Kenlock, Niamh Stack, Dave Stack, David Truzzi-Franconi, Alice Courvoisier, Robert Moffatt, Pete Marshall, Paul Hyman, Justin Miles, Matt Cooke, Phil May, Dale Mears, Will Hawkes, Tom Clare Photography, Harry Price, Bence Vekassy/International Canoe Federation, Magdalena Tomasik, Dominika Opałka, Kacper Abramczyk, Mikołaj Kubicki and Robin Boot Photography