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 | The Masonic 2018 Reloaded
The year the paddling stories were drowned by the party chatter...A few years back when WhatsApp chat groups had got popular, but long before the delete option became a thing, invites were sent out: “The Inaugural Masonic Reloaded Party. Rugby is at 5pm (SA vs NZ), so...
Dabs News | The Tugela 10’s
The Tugela 20's which doubled up as the KZN School Champs were once again held near Winterton over the weekend, but this year they had to be halved. Unfortunately foot and mouth disease on local farms meant that access to the river was limited which resulted in a...
Dabs News | Portugal, Ponta and Pretoria
From Sprints in Portugal to Surfski in Ponta to Marathons in Pretoria, Dabs people have been paddling all over the place… The Centurion 9 Miler, renowned for cold and windy conditions almost as bad as the Berg, was for the second year in a row breathless, sunny, warm...
Dabs News | Berg River Marathon 2025
The long 4 day race that was decided after just 1 for the guys and 2 for the girls. For day 1, the rain promised for Paarl never arrived and the first 62km stage was raced in mercifully dry but cold conditions. As is tradition, the little cannon started the...
Dabs News | The Short and The Long
This week we take a look at the Long and the Short of paddling – with respect to distances and to people… In our canoeing circles we have some Long almost giraffe like people, along with some Short, almost little people, but even more distinctively, we also have...
Dabs News – SA Marathon Champs
Upington and the Orange River hosted the 2025 SA Marathon Champs, with the elite racing snakes vying to represent South Africa in Gyor, Hungary at the World Marathon Championships in September, while others – including many from Dabs, SCARC and the Ridge – were simply...
Dabs News – From Survival to Silver for Our Canoeing Comrades
Respect to all who lined up for Comrades 2025, but unfortunately not all who started made it – sorry guys and girl. Well done to Chad Andrews who got his monies worth, staying out on the road for 11 hours and 56 minutes. Christine Clark was a bit quicker at 11 hours...
Dabs News | From Marathons and Sprints, to Hospital Beds and Heartfelt Tributes
Two months ago, the Morning School crew put up a Memorial Bell in the clubhouse, in honour of Mark Feather and all our paddling friends who have passed on. This past Thursday evening, the bell was rung for the first time since then - for Brian Jordan. Giles Walkey,...
Dabs News | Vaalie Surfski Success at the Freedom Paddle
Just a few weeks ago we had the HASSC where Ricki Talevi & Mike Arthur took the bragging rights ahead of Wayne Jacobs & Matt Coetzer, after which there was some talk as to what might happen at the next showdown, which happened on Sunday… While some were...
Dabs News | From Marathons to Surfski, a Clean Up and a Remembrance Paddle
It’s been a busy time for many from the finest canoe club in the whole dam universe. On Thursday evening Dabs hosted the second GCU short course Marathon Champs, with the Guppies doing 2km’s including one portage and all other age groups doing 3km’s with two portages....