Dabs News

The Easter Holiday Canoeing Clinic Covid killed many things off; so it’s great when good, healthy, fun things survive. Thankfully the Canoeing Clinic is alive and well; and this years’ is bigger and more diverse than ever before, with 22 boys and girls ranging from...

This past weekend our sisters were busy doing it for themselves, when the Dabs Darlings went away on tour to Durban. Caren, Dorette, Elandrie, Gabbi, Karen, MJ (the lady version), Pippa and Renschi drove down to join Christie and Tracey Nuss; another Dabs Darling that...

SolaSafe have come on board to sponsor the Dabs Mixed Doubles League with prizes valued at over R20,000, a big Thank You to Allen Needham. The 1st SolaSafe Mixed Doubles League race is at Dabs on Thursday the 20th April – New Winter TT Start Time 5.30pm. There will be...

Do you have a paddling related picture you like? Maybe a really old one, maybe a really recent one, one that you want to share….  We want to put loads of pictures on the Dabs Website. Epic ones or fun ones. Ones of pride or just ones of a good day - all sorts of ones...

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Well, that was an awesome Umko race weekend, with a whole lot of fantastic firsts.    28 Dabs guys flew our flag, and all who went, finished; so that was probably a first. Respect to Belkie and Mike Barry who limped home almost last on day 2 in a crippled craft,...

So much fun was had, on what was a beautiful summers afternoon at Dabs. First up was a 400m K2 race where the driver was blindfolded and the back seat paddler had to give directions, which proved to be harder than one would have thought. MJ, aka SwemJay, and his...

A Dusi with lots of differences, one that won’t easily be forgotten. This year’s race didn’t start in Pietermaritzburg, and it didn’t even start near a river, instead it started on a polo field at the Bishopstowe Country Club with a 3km run down to the Msunduzi –...