by Chuck Brabec http://www.thebrabecs.com/Paddling_Thoughts.pdf chuck@thebrabecs.com
Over the past 15+ years of paddling and teaching whitewater kayaking as a volunteer, I have accumulated the following list of “thoughts” that I like to share with my fellow paddlers.
You are welcome to use any part (or all) of this document.
I enjoy long car rides to go paddling, swimming the Ocoee, and the Haw River in January. I’m honored to help keep this club going!
My name is Jason Jones and I have served as the CCC president since 2025. I am an ACA L3 River Canoe instructor and live in Carrboro, NC with my wife and 2 young boys (4 and 6). I’m usually …
Hi I’m Mary Stager, Treasurer for the CCC!
Please contact me at treasurer@carolinacanoeclub.org
Membership Chair Bio:
Name: Doug
Boat(s) I paddle: Dagger Nomad, Dagger Mamba, WaveSport Project X56 and a 2015 Jackson Fun
Favorite place to paddle: In a river with water
Favorite color: Red
Favorite CCC Event: Week of Rivers
Favorite thing about CCC: Going on paddling trips with great people
What I do when I am not paddling: Think about paddling and making paddling videos for my YouTube Channel
Favorite offseason activity: There is an offseason?
Hi! We are Marcy Macklin and Michelle Smith, the Members-at-Large for the CCC!
Please contact us at member.at.large@carolinacanoeclub.org
Please contact me at education.chair@carolinacanoeclub.org
Hi I'm Joe Berry, cruise chair of the CCC!
My first paddling trip was a overnighter in 1972 on the New River. Tandem with my father Tom Berry ( Cruise chair way back when) taught me to paddle on the left and to become a C1 paddler!
Bought my first C1 when I was 13. It was a old John Berry design and was about 70cm wide. No need to learn to roll because you just could not turn it over. First solo trip was on the Mayo. Now you know why the MMRT is my heart and soul.
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Bob Brueckner, Conservation Chair
I joined the Carolina Canoe Club at Week of Rivers in 1987. After five swims on the Nantahala in one day, trip leader Bob Harvey turned to me and suggested that I might want to try paddling the Tuckasegee because the water was a lot warmer. Despite my inability to remain upright, I continued to paddle.
