Blow the wind Southerly, and plenty of it, the song should have gone.
Minima’s 2022 regatta, sponsored by TWM Solicitors for the 15th consecutive year,
celebrated a cracking weekend of sailing with the absolute perfect wind.
On the north south reach we often have to deal with from the prevailing south westerly
looping over tall trees and generating swirling and tricky conditions, which river sailors are
supposed to love. Of course we don’t have much choice.
Paddling the Oxford Loop
22 July 2026
Kayaking members of Minima made their June outing an eight and a half mile circular trip to the west of Oxford, taking in the Oxford Canal, the Duke’s Cut and the river Isis, a tributary of the Thames.