Adventure Paddle Co

01/01/2025

2025 LET'S MAKE IT A YEAR OF NEW ADVENTURES
Wishing all our valued customers, fellow paddlers and paddlesports industry colleagues a brilliant New Year in 2025.

Thanks for all your support and good times in 2024.

📍Loch Lomond
📸 Chris Blackwood

24/11/2024

NEW 2024 CHRISTMAS GIFT SHOP
Give the Gift of Adventure to a loved one this Christmas with our professionally made gift vouchers. We have set up a Gift Shop this year offering THREE fantastic paddle boarding experiences with a 2024 December offer with 30% off RRP. It's our little gift to you...

Our Intro to Paddleboarding are very popular lessons and include all equipment hire, 3 hour lesson in a sheltered water environment with a PaddleUk SUP Coach. Warm drinks and cake included and a % off a future tour.

Are you planning to buy someone close a Xmas present this year who is a bit of an adventurer? Our Loch Lomond Island Hopper half day tour is perfect for paddlers who would like to take it slow, keep it social and would love to explore the stunning beauty of Loch Lomonds islands with a qualified guide.

Our third voucher experience is our Island Explorer Tour. Suitable for more independent paddlers who would prefer to join a small group paddling to a remote island, having their lunch prepared and cooked for them and enjoying a really immersive island experience connecting with locals, its history and its wildlife.

All enquiries via email at: [email protected]

NB. Vouchers have no expiry date whilst the product exists.
All are small group experiences and include hire, photography, insurance, changing cape, drinks, guiding, pre tour support and lunch.

Heres to a Year of Adventures...

14/08/2024

Super Stoked to be supporting the delivery of Aqua Paddle UK 5km timed event at Irvine this coming Sunday 18th.
9am at Bookers Pond Irvine.

Hosted by the Ayrshire Armada SUP Club and a top team of volunteers.

It's Free to join and is suitable for all abilities and paddlesport craft.

To sign up simply visit www.aquapaddle.org

Sign up for your TAG number, register your craft with a cool name, search UPCOMING paddles and register for IRVINE.

It's not a race. Although it's timed this is only to inspire paddlers to use paddling for health and fitness gains us the added benefit of meeting new buddies on the water.

Together we're hoping to run these fun free timed events a few times per month.

Hope you can join us.🤟🏻🙋🏻‍♂️
Craig

22/07/2024

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿GUIDED SUP TOUR | ISLAND HOPPER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Join us this Sunday for a classic paddleboard touring route around the majestic islands of LLNP as we explore by SUP and by foot.
Slow n steady pace. Suitable for Sea Turtles,Orcas and Porpoises & paddlers who can self rescue.

🗓️ SUNDAY 28TH JULY 0930am - 1500pm
📍Luss beach, Loch Lomond NP
✅ Equipment hire available £20.00. PFD is mandatory to wear within LLNP.
😎 Guided by Craig
🎂 Warm drinks and snacks included
🤪 4 spaces available

If interested please drop us a quick email at:
[email protected]
We'll pop over our booking link and online payment link.

Hope you can join us for a brilliant day out.

20/07/2024

WHATS ON - JULY & AUGUST
Plenty on offer here at Adventure Paddle Co as we continue to support Ayrshire Armada SUP Club with Tuesday night Connect sup socials. To join in simply check out the club page on Facebook and jump aboard. Free socials. Great fun.

SUP SAFER COURSES * NEW DATES
We've listened to feedback and will now run a Paddle UK SUP SAFER course splitting over two Tuesday nights at Bookers Pond,Irvine. These courses are brilliant fun and highly informative covering key themes such as planning, reading the environment, weather tides, equipment and supporting other paddlers with rescues etc. Funded by DarrochBeQuest via RNLI Troon Lifeboat The Outdoor Partnership Ayrshire We are also running a Saturday course with spaces available morning or afternoon.
Do drop us an email where we'll reply with booking link and course information.

AQUAPADDLEUK 5KM EVENTS
Delighted to run these superb 5km timed events at our home patch, Bookers Pond,Irvine. The team of volunteers are lined up, kitted up, the online work is near complete so after a fun trial we're set for 18th August. Open to all craft not just SUP.
SEE AquaPaddleUk.org for details on how to sign up, register and for full event information.

GUIDED SUP TOURS
The islands are calling so we must go...
Our island Hopper is a cracker of an 8km day out starting from Luss, Loch Lomond. Exploring. Adventuring and Enjoying a slow paced guided trip in good company within a truly world class setting.
Check out our Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere Discovery tour at the end of August once the kids are back at school and life settles back down. Venue likely Loch Bradan, Loch Doon or Loch Ken.

As a certified Biosphere Guide we're super keen to showcase this stunning region for paddling and moreso how we can do so responsibly.

As always please keep in touch.
Email Summer Newsletter out this week and here's to brighter days in warm sunshine...

Craig & team

09/07/2024

📢Delighted to announce we are officially certified by the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere following our Guides training course completed in April. As we operate guided SUP tours in such a beautiful region it was only fitting we align to the ethos and sustainability objectives of the GSA Biosphere gaining Leave No Trace accreditation in the process.
Next steps will be joining the Proud Supporter scheme and joining other guides/businesses to create memorable SUP experiences.

14/06/2024

😎Fancy trying paddleboarding for the first time? Or have you not ventured out this year and feel apprehensive about heading out?

Our Intro to Paddleboarding sessions are industry leading where we help paddlers gain new knowledge and skills through fun, easy to understand activities which boost confidence and control. All within a very sheltered water environment.

☺️During our sessions we typically cover essentials such as; what to wear, planning a days paddling, board set up, leash safety, launching, learning to turn and paddling forwards and self rescues before heading on a mini journey to piece it all together and inspire adventure.

We offer sessions:
Tuesday nights 6-9pm at Bookers Pond, Irvine.
Saturday and Sunday mornings throughout July & August.
£30pp (kit hire extra £15)

Paddle Scotland qualified SUP Coaches with over 20years experience.

Sessions are a must before joining our guided tour series.
Do drop us an email if interested.

[email protected]

Craig

11/06/2024

SUP SAFER COURSES | UPDATE
Hi folks.
3 spaces available on Saturday 15th June 0900-1300pm bridge Doonfoot, Ayr

2 spaces available afternoon session 1300-1700pm

📢*Extra courses
✅Sunday 16th June BOOKERS POND IRVINE
Am & pm spaces available

✅Saturday 13th July BOOKERS POND IRVINE
Am & pm spaces available

✅Sunday 14th July BOOKERS POND IRVINE
Am & Pm spaces available

Those new to paddleboarding this is a brilliant course to upskill on planning days out, interpreting weather and the environment, learning more about equipment, core paddling skills and assisting others on the water. Essential skills for club socials/regular paddlers.

To book in check the link below
https://forms.gle/zjnPmXZxBLUBXStw5

🤗£10.50 or £30.00. Whichever suits your situation.
All proceeds to Troon Lifeboat Station DarrochBeQuest fund.

Hope we can fill the remaining places

Craig

Please complete ALL the sections below and click SUBMIT. *UK GDPR compliance. (6min task) Once we receive the completed form you will receive an email with conformation and joining instructions. We look forward to paddling with you.

02/06/2024

🎉Super proud of our 7 Paddler to Pro clients gaining their Paddle UK SUP Instructor award at Bookers Pond Irvine over the weekend. Amazing effort and we've really enjoyed supporting you on the journey. 🤟🏻👏🏻
Whoop whoop!!

29/05/2024

👀🤳🏻Wee sneak peak of our new website. Designed and built by ourselves. No off the shelf templates or web developers in support. Anyone who owns their own digital assets will know how challenging a task building a website can be. We're loving the journey...will be online by Summer.
Thanks for all your patience with us.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿12 Guided Tours throughout Scotland
😎SUP Courses
📍Living Wild Expeditions
☺️Signature SUP Experiences

27/05/2024

SUP SAFER COURSES
What a brilliant few weekends we've had meeting fellow paddlers,super cool kids and families who just want a bit more confidence in planning days out, making sense of weather apps and being safer whilst out on their local water.
It's been a hoot.
4 more courses on offer in June
Do get in touch if interested


The Outdoor Partnership Ayrshire
RNLI Troon Lifeboat
Paddle Scotland

08/05/2024

RESPONSIBLE IMPACT
SUP by nature can be a very sustainable mode of traveling around our prescious waterways. With well built boards and careful and considerate planning, our environmental impact is mostly negligible especially as we encourage car sharing and work in smaller groups.
Positively, with iSUPs, we can access little rubbish gyres or pollution collection spots otherwise hard to get to along our shores.
As per our environmental pledge we offer a 'take 5' on every ride out or tour where we build in 5 mins to scan and collect pollutants especially non biodegradable products such as flotsam, jetsam, fishing bi products and PET graded plastics which is increasingly abundant on our shores.
On our club ride out our volunteers collected a total of 113 items in 5bags ranging from aluminium cans, fishing lines, nets and food packaging to traffic cones and PET5 containers at the River Irvine, Ayrshire. The harbour entrance and further upstream is a particular problem as it catches the prevailing winds.

We want our group SUP experiences to have a positive meaningful impact on the local environment and just 5 mins scanning a 50m area can do so much to clean up the places we cherish.

As certified Leave No Trace practitioners we're hugely grateful to the team last night for their efforts in contributing to our pledge.

08/04/2024

SUP SAFER COURSES - BOOKING NOW LIVE
Fellow Paddlers, we are now welcoming bookings for this years series of Paddle UK SUP SAFER courses scheduled in Ayrshire.
We are ever so grateful to DarrochBeQuest fund via RNLI Troon Lifeboat whom have heavily subsidised the courses for the paddling community where we are once again delighted to work in collaboration with Vincent McWhirter The Outdoor Partnership Ayrshire and Paddle Scotland who also support the administration and promotion of the certified courses.

IMPACT
Proudly, over 98 paddlers signed up last year which was the biggest programme of it's kind in the UK so we anticipate high demand in 2024. Statistics showed a huge decrease in RNLI/Emergency services call outs post SUP SAFER courses in 2023 from June until September as an impact from the practical training and advice.

TO BOOK PLEASE COMPLETE THE LINK BELOW
https://forms.gle/RvN2TR5HjpcVkkbx6

Please select your date and time slot and complete the relevant sections. 1 course per person.

By demand, we are offering 2 Family SUP SAFER sessions aimed at parents, guardians and young people who ideally have their own equipment but wish more input and support in creating safe and memorable days out paddling. See booking form for days/times.
Min age 8 years old.

Please also indicate if you require hire of equipment for the course which we have only a small stock of kit. *Surcharges apply*

Once we receive your completed form, we will be in touch with a confirmation email, joining instructions and online payment link to make a contribution to the course.
WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS:
£10.50pp and £30.00pp
From feedback last year many paddlers told us they would happily pay the commercial rate of the course if they are in a position to do so. Without judgement. Monies collected are passed to our funders Darroch BeQuest RNLI Troon Lifeboat station/to ensure ongoing support to the paddling community.

We hope you share the programme details within your paddling circles and hope to see you on the water soon.
Any questions do get in touch.
Craig and team.

20/03/2024

PRE -INSTRUCTOR COURSE TRAINING
📢Looking to train to become an Instructor, Leader or Coach in SUP?

🎉Our bespoke SUP training course is now in its 4th year delivering annual pre-course training to support paddlers transitioning from keen and committed recreational paddlers to gaining Paddle UK SUP qualifications.

COURSE INCLUDES:

✅ Full days out paddling different marine environments with experienced leaders, coaches and guides.
✅ Focused and tailored sessions preparing for course content including group management, leadership qualities, setting up groups to SUP, trip planning and fun activities to develop core skills
✅ Scenario training to safely assist others and self
✅ Personal paddling and journeying around SW Scotland's cool venues.*
✅ Continual support to register for PaddleUk courses and mentorship
✅ Free hire and testing different kit plus action plan, kit % discounts with selected partners, video bank of highlight reel and access to our SUP knowledge centre resources.

If interested pop us an email requesting P2P course info pack.
[email protected]

Limited to 8 places.
10% discount to AyrshireArmadaSUPClub members
Wendy Stirton Paddle Scotland