Anyone into this as a hobby? We're moving into a house that backs onto a decent sized river - so I might ask for a canoe for xmas.

 

i would love to live on a good river, obviously the floods would become an issue but the thought of canoeing, fishing, nice little cruising boat.

which river are you on?

 

It's the River Loddon which feeds into the Thames at Shiplake near Henley.
The floodplain is the other side of the river luckily, and there's quite a a few steps to get down to it from where we are. There's a boathouse at the bottom of the garden which will be awesome for barbies in the summer, quite fancy fitting a canoe rack in the dock bit underneath

 

bloodyhell mate sounds great! sounds like your gonna have a lot of fun! skinny dipping with a few darling in the summer?

 

Mate of mine used to have a small river at the bottom of his garden. He had half an aircraft tip tank for a canoe. Trouble was it was almost impossible to use it without getting into a wobble from side to side. Good for a laugh though.

Les

 

sounds like a good laugh.....

make sure the missus has life insurance for you lol.

 

oh the Loddon does flood big time though

 

Me mate.. can't get enough of it, either here or around the world.. It's awesome...

 

Ask ChrisB

Just to qualify that remark - link - and yes, that's me in the bandana behind him with a paddle in my face