Dabs News
Here we share all Dabulamanzi’s news so that we can honour our paddlers, share the excitement of the activities that happen on and off the water and relive our favourite memories.
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Dabs News – Marathons and Sprints in May
From not so far away at Rietvlei, to the middle of China, to central Europe, our paddlers get to go to all sorts of places. Saturday saw Centurion Canoe Club hosting the second K1 event in the PSG Flatwater Marathon Series, out at Rietvlei Dam on what was an unusually...
Dabs News | Revisiting 1983
Dabs News – Revisiting 1983 One of our founder members, James (Jimmy) Skuse, was also the original scribe. He liked to drink as much as he like to write, and he liked to do both at the same time. Have a read of a Dabs News from over 40 years ago; beyond the obvious...
Dabs News | Management and Marathons
Thursday was a bitter-sweet evening for Elandrie, while Sunday was a windy and wavy morning for the K2 Marathon paddlers out at VLC. While things like the financials, legals, club facilities and safety were shared at the Annual General Meeting last Thursday, what most...
Navy News – SA Surfski Champs and the Prescient Freedom Paddle 2026
Navy News – SA Surfski Champs and the Prescient Freedom Paddle 2026 Today we salute the Salty Sea Dogs and the boys and girls of our Transvaal Navy. The SA Surfski S1 Champs took place on Friday from Simons Town to Millers Point and back to Fish Hoek on a sunny, calm...
Dabs News | The ERKie Marathon
The first race of the PSG Flatwater Marathon Series kicked off at ERK on Sunday, and while the forecasted rain never arrived, strong winds picked up in the day making Homestead Dam anything but flatwater with some tough headwinds but also some great downwinds. The...
Dabs News | The Fenn High Altitude Surfski Challenge
Part of the reason why Dabs is ‘The Best Canoe Club in the Whole Dam Universe’ is because of the annual Fenn High Altitude Surfski Challenge – there really is nothing like it in the whole wide world…The 15th edition was claimed by last year’s winner Mike Arthur who...
Dabs News | Gauteng Sprints and the Stihl Umko Marathon
From rocky river racing down in the Umkomaas valley to speedy sprints on Roodeplaat Dam our guys and girls have been flying the Dabs flag high. After last year’s near flood conditions, the 2026 StihlUmkomaas served up relatively low levels of 1.2m on day 1 and 1.1m on...
Dabs News | The Non-Stop and the One-Hop
Two very different races on two different rivers that only a few take on – so only they can appreciate the amazing feeling of finishing a One-Hop and/or a Non-Stop. The ‘Dusi in a Day’ started as an informal event in the mid-eighties when paddlers first completed the...
Dabs News | Dusi 2026
The 75th Dusi Canoe Marathon promised to be one for the history books with the prerace events suggesting that we would either see the first black K2 crew take a win or that the Popes incredible record of 15 wins would be broken. And being the Dusi, it also promised...
Dabs News. The 2025 Vaal River Marathon in 2026.
If at first you don’t succeed… There’s a popular proverb that encourages persistence and determination in the face of failure, and this idea of ‘try and try again’ is what Chad Andrews and his team did really well in staging the race - and it’s also what some other...