Last night a merry band of paddlers spent a few hours at the Tees Barrage International White Water Course moving some blocks on the long course. After a few sessions making adjustments to the Rapid Blocks on the short course it was great to get the OK to take a look at the main part of the course.

We based ourselves at Happy Eater with the aim of creating a good all round play feature. We started by removing all of the blocks that had been in place pretty much since the course was back in action. Putting the water on full flow showed some interesting results.

The next step was to try out some of the wedge blocks in various configurations. Tom had taken delivery of a new set of fittings so we had enough to fit all of the available wedges. Getting the wedges and fittings lined up correctly did take a little time.

Further blocks and a kicker (river left) were added. We also reduced the height of some of the blocks at the start of the back straight as the Happy Eater pool was backing up too much.

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