limerick, castleconnell, shannon

[Sick Boy]

hi all, i just got an email from one of the ul guys letting me know that there will be a white water race on the shannon, the sunday of colours. there is more info here http://www.eeng.nuim.ie/~jringwood/wwracing/Shanon07.pdf if you want to check it out. the reg. is at 12:15 and the get in is about an hour and a half drive from lahinch on the way back to dublin.

cian

[Towelyey]

mark says thats gay!! not me mark!!

[kill]

Dunno if I'm allowed show my face around those guys anymore.

[Sara]

There's grade 3 water on the Shannon? Skeptical at best. Is this one of these races thats all about people in wibbly wobblys

Sara

[Towelyey]

mmmmmm wibbly wobbly wonders i like ice-cream

[Sick Boy]

i think it is grade three in flood, which happens about once a year. either way i thought i should tell yee.
oh and like siobhan said this will be the white water for varsities.

[Monkey Loving Bob]

It has two grade three rapid sections as it's part of the old shannon, the rest is diverted to the Dam. It's grand, the castle rapid is even a bit of craic in most water levels, it's limerick's local annamoe slowed down.

[Sick Boy]

castle?really con? it has two walls

[bexifurr]

Better than the castle in Carlow, which has one!

[Diarmaid]

oh yeah? well my castle doesn't have any walls, so  to you

[Dave B]

worst stretch of river ever!!

[Monkey Loving Bob]

Shut up you bloody foreigner, people are meant to find that out for themselves and then we laugh at them at the take out with beers and hookers! How's Nepal?

[Sick Boy]

im guessing he dosent have to wait till the take out of a river to get beers and hookers.

[canned]

The Castleconnell section of the shannon is a simple stretch that has a minimum amount of water garaunteed all year and is a great training ground for level 3 paddling. Only the unimaginitive see it as anything less....

It's well suited to this kind of race but is no joke in high water. There have been people airlifted from midflow trees on the S bend section several times.

Like Siobhan said, there'll be better than average levels to facilitate the race.

[Ritchie]

sounds great.. personally i would be encourage our freshers to make up 50% of all teams entering, and then the other 50% going to the clubs top boaters.

my 2cents