The first ISA affiliated cub slalom fest took place in Killaloe on 20^th / 21st of November. Three clubs took part, Lough Derg, South Meath and the North West. The ISA ran a training day on inshore costal water navigation on the Saturday this was a full day course given by Denis Dillon. The course was well attended by members form all clubs and content and presentation was excellent. We all went away with the necessary skills to plan and navigated a safe trip around our inshore coastal waters. Thanks again to Denis and the ISA for giving the course.

After a few social drinks in Joe’s ‘Sports Bar’ among other hostelries around Balina and Killaloe on Saturday we were up relatively early on Sunday morning and headed out to two mile gate where Uel and the crew spent a busy morning setting up the Slalom course. After all the recent rain the waters had covered over the slip. However the North West crew had a quad which was used to launch the skis. With all the skis in the water we were given a briefing on how to run the Slalom and a chance to practice the course.

The event was broken down into three categories of skis.

·         3 seater

·         2 seater

·         Stand up

Each competitor was given two runs through the slalom with their best time recorded results table below:

After that we had a speed rumble

This was a great event the weather was against us on the day however we are already planning a summer event for 2010.

Pictures can be seen under the South Meath tab in the picture gallery.