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Paddleboading - Locations and Routes

  • 08-02-2019 9:53am
    #1
    Streetlamp
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭


    Are there many paddleboarders on here?

    If so can you share your favourite locations and routes?

    So far I find the grand canal in kildare quite nice, and plan to do some of the liffey in the summer.


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  • #2
    patob
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭patob


    Got a board recently, going to try the Malahide estuary where I got a lesson previously.


  • #3
    Supcycle
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Supcycle


    Anyone fancy the deep Sinking on the royal canal. Ive never seen it from the water but it's said to be amazing


  • #4
    Streetlamp
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭Streetlamp


    Supcycle wrote: »
    Anyone fancy the deep Sinking on the royal canal. Ive never seen it from the water but it's said to be amazing

    never heard of it, where is it?


  • #5
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Streetlamp wrote: »
    never heard of it, where is it?
    Between Castleknock and Clonsilla.
    Not sure where it starts and ends, but it's around that area.
    I think it's named after the fact that a passenger boat sunk there and almost 20 people drowned.

    Edited
    https://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/the-royal-canal/the-sinking-of-the-longford-in-1845/
    https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-royal-canal-way-in-dublin-1542418
    Through the Deep Sinking and on Towards Leixlip

    If you carry on you will pass through a suburban area and soon reach "The Deep Sinking". Here the Royal Canal is narrow and as much as 30 feet below the bridlepath, fatal for the occasional draught horse stumbling in the old days and still potentially dangerous today.

    The chasm continues beyond Coolmine Station and Kirkpatrick Street. Only after Kennan Bridge will the pathway level out, become less bumpy and wider. Callaghan Bridge and Clonsilla Station are almost the last urban structures, give or take a few new estates. Because this is the beginning of the commuter belt, where Dubliners moved to a more rural home until the urban landscape, lifestyle, and problems caught up with them.


  • #6
    Supcycle
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Supcycle


    Theres a YouTube video of it called "Royal Canal Dublin Ireland, The Deep Sinking"
    This is it. It looks like a cool place to paddle. I'm up for it. Rather not do it on my own tho if any of ye fancy a paddle


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  • #7
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    there's a guy setting up a paddleboarding - hire & tours in killaloe clare


  • #8
    sheriff2
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭sheriff2


    Hi all;

    Just jumping into this thread rather than start a new one.

    Does anyone know of SUP meet ups or groups etc.
    I am a beginner so finding it hard to get out on the water, especially by myself.


  • #9
    Streetlamp
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭Streetlamp


    Don't know of any meetups happening in Ireland. There doesn't appear to be ny active groups on facebook or insta organising meets like in the uk.

    I wouldn't be afraid of goin on your own so long as you are sensible. Canals are great as they are generally flat and have no real currents. Also the sea is good if you pick the right beach you can practice in knee deep water if needs be.


  • #10
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    These groups might help

    https://www.meetup.com/topics/stand-up-paddle-boarding/ie/

    https://www.meetup.com/topics/stand-up-paddle-sup/


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