Rutland Canoe Club is fantastic all year round
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CANOEISTS are urging people to take advantage of living close to Rutland Water by joining their club.
Rutland Canoe Club has a loyal membership of around 40 people who take to the water all year round to enjoy the sport and improve their skills.
As the warmer weather approaches they are keen to attract new recruits to join them for their weekly sessions at the reservoir.
Club chairman Neil Juggins said: “We have some members who take the sport seriously and compete in races but most just stick to practising at Rutland Water.
“Our members tend to be more mature people but we are keen to encourage young people to take up canoeing, although most come along with their families.
Source: Rutland Times
Students sail concrete canoes into engineering majors at UNF event
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The themes ranged from a small replica of Noah's Ark to a Viking ship replete with miniature shields on the rails. But the objective was anything but novel.
Engineering students from five northeast Florida high schools converged on the University of North Florida School of Engineering building Saturday to see if their "concrete canoes" could outdo the others. It was part of the second Concrete Canoe Contest put on by UNF and the Society of American Military Engineers that tests design, stability and buoyancy of small 2-foot vessels made mostly of concrete and designed by the students.
The point is to prove that concrete, through appropriate engineering, can be less dense than water.
Source: Florida Times-Union
Lifelines group combines religion and adventure
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For $5 and a homily, University of Maine students gained the chance to ricochet off rocks in the Souadabscook.
Lifelines Ministry, a Christian student organization at the University of Maine, took three boat-loads of students on a white-water canoeing trip on the Soudabscook Stream in Hampden on Friday.
Lifelines Ministry’s mission is “to use the outdoor experience to help students grow holistically; in their relationships with each other, with God, and in leadership and character,“ according to its website. The group was started in Maine by a group of religious people who loved the outdoors.
The trip was led by UMaine alumnus Joseph Cousins, the head of Lifelines and an experienced rock climber, rafter and outdoorsman. At the outset of the excursion, he said the group’s goal is to combine God and the outdoors, but he did not dwell on religion while on the water.
Source: The Maine Campus
By DAVID RASBACH — THE BELLINGHAM HERALD The 
