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More News from Voyageur...

15/12/10
Voyageur Coaching will be providing the Inland Flood Rescue Association with a number of Swift Water Rescue Training courses throughout 2011. This will be starting in January and we a pleased to announce that we will be joined by Wes Meyer from Rescue Training International.

13/12/10
We are proud to announce that there are some photographs of us using Palm Equipment in their new 2011 Workbook

10/12/11
You can now follow Voyageur Coaching on twitter @voyageurcoachin

20/08/10
We are pleased to announce that we are now part of Team Palm, which includes Mad River Canoes. You can follow us on the Palm Blog here...

09/03/10 Cackle TV & 'This is Canoeing' DVD
This coming Friday sees the release of the latest in a line of DVD's from Justine Curgenven of Cackle TV. Justine is know for her series of action packed dvd's entitled 'This is the sea'. We were lucky enough to be given a copy by Justine before the release date and after having watched it several times can highly recommend it, very inspirational and makes you want to get out paddling straight away. Thank you and well done Justine on another great production. more...

22/02/10 PYB Paddlesport Expedition Symposium
The weekend of the 20-21 Feburary saw the above event take place at Plas y Brennin National Mountain centre. Despite the very cold weather and good dump of snow on the Saturday night the attendance figures were good. Sessions were delivered covering a variety of topics including, trip planning, equipment, funding and sponsorship. There were also a number of practical workshops on hand looking at portaging, expedition cooking, expedition first aid and using gps. Voyageur Coaching was tasked with providing a number of sessions of bushcraft for paddlers. All of our sessions were filled and in most cases over filled, with feedback all being positive and coments on how useful the sessions had been. We covered selection and use of tools, tarps, cooking on fires and fire lighting. All of this and some freshly baked bread and cakes for those attending. Thankyou to all those that attended and to Pete Caterall for inviting us. You can see some photos from the event on our Facebook page. See you on the water...

03/02/10 Desperate Measures River Safety Day
Voyageur Coaching has joined forces with Desperate Measures to bring you this one day workshop. Rather than being over specialised or site specific, it has been designed to tackle general safety in and around moving water. more...

31/01/10 Snow for Assessment
This weekend saw a number people attend their 4 star canoe leader assessment with Voyageur. As usual the weather proved interesting and gave both cold and snow conditions, but again a definite lack of wind. The first day was spent on Bala in stunning conditions, and then on day two we were joined by Dave Luke as the second assessor and enjoyed the stretch from the Horseshoe falls down to JJ's. Well done to all those that attended and thank you to those that gave your time as mock students. Photos from the weekend are now up on our Facebook page.

27/01/10 Voyageur to Provide Coaching & Rescue Training in Malaysia
The Singapore Canoe Federation has again asked for services this year. November and December will see us travelling to Malaysia in order to deliver some safety & rescue training and white water kayak coaching.

26/01/10 Great Time Had on 4 Star Training
23-24 January Voyageur delivered a 4 Star Canoe Leader Training in North Wales. The first day was spent on Bala which saw the day conclude with a night paddle. Weather was fantastic, but lacked any wind. The group explored various leadership opportunities, sailing/rafting rigs and even engaged in some tandem poling. Day two we visited the River Dee at Llangollen and used the section from the Serpents Tail down to JJ's site. Again lots of opportunities for looking at leadership, some personal skills and a session on trsditional skills. Feedback from the group was all very possitive and we are looking forward to the next course. You can take a look at the photos from the weekend at our Facebook page. Many thanks to all of you that attended and supported us.

22/01/10 15% Discount at Desperate Measures
Complete any of our paddling courses and receive a 15% off discount voucher to be used at Desperate Measures, on any single transaction. (T & C's apply).

20/01/10 We are now on Facebook
You can now also track what we are up to on our Facebook page.

17/01/10 Voyageur Coaching is re-branded
People may have noticed we have undergone a bit of a makeover. This is thanks to John and Jay at Orb & Crash who re-designed our branding and provided us with our new stylish logo. In their words 'The new identity is bold whilst still emphasising the traditional and highly skilled nature of the coaching and training provided by Voyageur.' The guys also designed this great new web site for us together with all our other advertising resources. They are very helpful and professional and we thoroughly recommend them to anyone who likes our new look and is thinking of investing in some sort of branding or web site design. Many thanks to Jon and Jay.

17/01/10 BCU Coaching Conference
Despite a distinct lack of water due to a frozen lake Voyageur Coaching delivered a number of workshops focussing on traditional canoe skills during the above conference. Those that attended commented on how they had enjoyed the session and took away some useful ideas and coaching tips. Thank you to those that attended for your support and feedback.

17/01/10 Scotland Expeditions 2010
Voyageur Coaching is pleased to announce that so far this year we have been asked to provide a total of 4 expeditions in Scotland during 2010. These will be in the form of two sea kayak expeditions in the area of Skye and two in open canoe exploring the Loch Sheil area and a trans Scotland trip across Rannoch Moor finishing in Perth. We will aim to keep people updated during these trips via our Facebook page. Please visit again and keep a look out for these later in the year to check our progress. Meanwhile if you would like to enquire about Voyageur leading an expedition for you then please contact us.

14/01/10 Hints & Tips
We are currently working on a new section to our website that will have lots of useful hints & tips. This will range from ideas to improve your personal skills, tools for your coaching, fitting out boats, ideas on equipment and some techniques used in bushcraft. Please visit regularly to keep updated.

12/01/10 New Sea Kayak Courses
During 2010 we are hopping to introduce a number of new Sea Kayak Courses. The aim being to introduce people to this area of paddlesport and maybe inspire them to progess and develop their skills further whislt setting their own personal goals. We will also be offering a Safety & Rescue day specific to Sea Kayak, looking at safe paddling, self rescues, group rescues and various towing systems/techniques.

10/01/10 BCU Coaching Conference 16-17 January
We hope to see some of you at the above conference where we will be delivering two sessions (one AM and one PM) focussing on traditional canoe skills. This will include poling, lining and tracking, sailing and portaging. For more information visit here..

03/01/10 BCU 4 Star Canoe Leader Training Plus

During 2010 Voyageur Coaching is offering a number of different options for 4 Star Canoe Training, with two, three and five day options.The Canoe Leader Plus Training is a five day course which will help to fully prepare you for assessment. Not only does it cover personal paddling, leadership and planning skills but it will also include the BCU WWSR training  specific to open canoe more...

15/12/09 Reduced rate Safety & Rescue Courses
Voyageur Coaching is a recognised BCU Safety & Rescue provider, and is currently offering courses at the reduced rate of £350 for maximum of six, to students, clubs and groups more...

15/12/09 Voyageur launches new website!
We are proud to launch our new website. You can now browse courses and learn a lot more about us. Have a suggestion for us? Just let us know.