River Dart - Saturday and Sunday 22nd & 23rd January

The first major event of 2011, saw Grant Underwood and Neal Underwood travel to Dartmoor in Devon to race on the River Dart with a team from Herts Young Mariners.

When the water is high the River Dart provides a fantastic race, with some of the best wild water in the Country. However on this occasion the water was low, but it does provide a technical race with some tricky falls and rapids on the classic. The Sprint was held below the classic course on a good stretch of water. The Dartmoor Country Park provides car parking at the finish at £5 per car, where refreshments can be bought and also has hot showers, which make the parking fee well worth while!

Saturday's event was a sprint race which saw some very good results for all paddlers:

Matt Bishop - HYM - 1st Under 16 (2 mins 35 seconds)

Torsten Krebs - Tower Hamlets - 5th Div A (2:38)

Grant Underwood - The Sharks - 1st Under 18 (2:39)

Neal Underwood - The Sharks - 1st Master (2:41)

Luke Robinson - HYM - 2nd Under 18 (2:47)

Ross  Pearton - P. L. Argentan - 1st C1 Div A (2:56)

Sunday's Classic:

Torsten Krebs - Tower Hamlets - 1st Master  (21:59)

Matt Bishop - HYM - 2nd Under 16 (24:47)

Neal Underwood - Sharks - 2nd Master (25:04) 

Grant Underwood - The Sharks - 2nd Under 18 (25:11)                                                Grant and Neal waiting at the start of the Classic

Ross Pearton - P. L. Argentan - 1st C1 (25:16)

Luke Robinson - HYM - Third Under 18 (25:54)

Posted 27th January 2011