A little history about GC&TC:
The Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club Inc. was formed in 1959. For many years there were members involved in both Canoeing and Tramping activities. The Club had a boat shed for storing canoes under the Peel Street Bridge, and built a ramp there for launching the canoes. During the mid 1960s a collection of 35 canoes were stored there. The Club held many canoe races on the Waimata and Wairoa Rivers and took the canoes away for trips, for example to the Whanganui and Waioeka Rivers. Races were also held below the Piripaua Power Station in fast flowing water.
On the tramping side, in the 1960s members of the Club often joined with the Youth Hostel Assn. members on tramping trips, as well as doing many adventurous tramping trips as a Club both close to Gisborne and throughout NZ. But it was GC&TC that built the Hikurangi Hut in 1961 over a series of weekends, using pack horses, and club members, to carry the building materials up to the hut site.
GC&TC no longer owns any canoes, and does only occasional canoe trips using privately owned kayaks.
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