Forth Canoe Club

The Forth Canoe Club, founded in 1934, is Scotland's oldest surviving canoe club. It is a founding member of the Scottish Canoe Association.

The club originally met at Granton in North Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth. In 1982 it moved to Lochrin Basin at the Edinburgh end of the Union Canal following an extensive dredging operation by the club's second and current commodore Kelso Riddell.

When the Union Canal was developed by British Waterways as part of the Millennium Link, Forth Canoe Club lost its buildings there and moved to the Old St Andrew's Boathouse further along the canal in 2004.

The first commodore was Jack Cuthill and the main building of the Club was named after him. When this building was destroyed, the new building at Grandtully was named in his memory.

The club's motto, 'per ventus et per artus' means 'by wind and by skill'.

Forth Canoe Club member David Florence represented Great Britain in the Senior Team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won a silver medal for Team GB in the men's C1 single slalom event on August 12.

Forth Canoe Club opened a new international slalom course at the Harrison Park boathouse in Edinburgh in 2008.

References

cite book
last = Ferrero
first = Franco
title = British Canoe Union Canoe and Kayak Handbook
publisher = Pesda Press
date = 2002
pages = 10
isbn = 0953195651

External links

* [http://www.forthcc.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?ID=6689 Beijing Olympics website, entry on David Florence]
* [http://www.davidflorence.co.uk Website on David Florence]
* [http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/top-stories/Canoe-club-is-on.4086402.jp "Canoe club is on course for great things", Edinburgh Evening News, May 15, 2008]