As a section of the Camping and Caravanning Club, all our camping events are open to Camping and Caravanning Club members (including Canoe-camping Club members) only. Anyone participating must be a member of the Camping and Caravanning Club before attending a meet.

Please remember to bring your Club membership cards to all club events, since we are required to check and record memberships are current.  We also need to record BRITISH CANOEING numbers for those who have them. Paddlers need to be a member of the Canoe-camping Club and/or one of Britain's paddlesport National Governing Bodies*.   These are needed to ensure that we are covered by the Club's and British Canoeing's insurance.
Canoeing and kayaking are ‘assumed risk’ ‘water contact’ activities, however serious accidents are very rare.
Participants should be aware of and accept these risks, and be responsible for their own action and involvement.
All participants in club trips or meets do so at their own risk, and neither the Club nor its officers can accept any liability for loss or injury of any kind sustained whilst on a Club trip, meet or other activity.

*British Canoeing / Canoe Wales / Canoe NI / The Scottish Canoe Association

Coming events

River Dart, Dart Estuary (Totnes down) and Devon coast
From Friday 15 October 2010 -  01:00am
To Sunday 17 October 2010 - 12:59am
Contact Tony Wilkins for Whitewater, Norman Howard for Saltwater

Two different kinds of canoeing to choose from: Whitewater on the upper Dart, or Sea/Estuary kayaking from Totnes down.

  • The Kingfisher Canoe Club have invited suitably experienced members of the Canoe-camping Club to join them on their annual excursion on the Dart. The trip grading is dependent on water level: Newbridge to Holne Bridge is normally a Grade 2/3 bump and scrape with plenty of opportunity for rock and tree dodging. In high water it is claimed to go up as far as Grade 5. The section from Holne down to Totnes is generally a Grade 2 with a number of weirs which can become killers when the river is in spate.)
  • Sea kayaks and suitable tourers ONLY for salt water trips, paddlers must have 2* or above.

Staying at Parkers Farm Camping Site near Ashburton, you can camp, caravan or hire a mobile home or cottage on site. 

It is a wonderful area for touring, both on land and the coast. Dartmoor is as close as the sea so non-paddlers have multiple choice to spoil them. Mountain biking on Dartmoor, walking the South West Coast path or visiting nearby Plymouth with its myriad of things to do and see. There is also the Dart valley steam railway nearby and the Dart Country Park.

With Kingfisher Canoe Club