Shugborough loop paddle

• Date: Saturday 14 May
• Time: 09:30 if you want breakfast, otherwise 10:00
• Place: Canal Side Cafe, Mill Lane, Great Haywood, Staffordshire, ST18 0RQ, https://www.canalsidefarm.co.uk/
• Launch fee: around £2 or £3

This is a gentle 8 miles round trip on the River Sow and Staffordshie and Worcestershire canal, suitable for all crafts bar maybe coracles, and it's a hell of a work out in playboats, so best for sup / canoe / kayak.

Lunch: Bring food and water

Cream tea: hopefully finish in time for cafe cream teas

Kit: Buoyancy aid, paddle, appropriate warm paddle clothing and footwear, sun hat, sun cream. And spare clothing - if you fall in everyone will help you and no one will laugh (... pause ... probably not laugh)

Club kit: available Friday evening 13 May if you let me know, from 6pm to 6 30pm

Kids: open to kids if they bring adult supervision