News

Production update - summer 2022

Posted on Wednesday 4th May, 2022

Due to delays in supply of materials and downtime with staff off with Covid we are currently running behind on production – approximately 4 - 6 weeks. We are working to get orders completed as fast as possible, but appreciate these are... Read full post
New green colour for St Patrick’s Day! (and every day)

Posted on Thursday 17th March, 2022

Go green! Celebrating St Patricks day, we’ve got a new green colourway in all our glass VE paddles. Now you can do the full traffic lights, with our vibrant red, sunshine yellow and new lively green – all... Read full post
We are VE Paddles

Posted on Thursday 3rd March, 2022

So its been a hot minute since we started building VE Paddles for you guys at our new purpose built production facility at Palm here in Clevedon, Somerset. We thought it was high time we started introducing you to some... Read full post
Introducing our brand new Flyte!

Posted on Tuesday 30th November, 2021

Take off with speed using our new slalom-inspired design. This shape has slalom inspired design DNA at its core. An aggressive intial catch rewards starting the stroke further forward, but with a more gradual taper towards the neck to... Read full post
Review: VE Explorer paddle

Posted on Thursday 12th August, 2021

Dimitri Vandepoele of North Sea Kayak recently reviewed our VE Explorer paddle on Paddler magazine. Read his review below. VE stands for Vertical Element, paddles for elite paddlers. VE PADDLES develops and produces paddles both for white water kayakers,... Read full post
Meet the team – Mathew Lamont

Posted on Friday 18th June, 2021

Mathew Lamont is a twenty-two year old surf kayaker from Northern Ireland. He's been kayaking for eleven years and has also won several British and Irish titles at both junior and senior level. Hometown Dungannon. Where did you last... Read full post
Brexit Update – European Shipping

Posted on Monday 22nd February, 2021

What about Brexit? Unless you've been living behind a waterfall, you'll have heard that the UK have packed their paddle bags and left Europe for this thing called Brexit. For those of you outside the UK, we hope... Read full post
Merry Christmas from VE Paddles

Posted on Friday 18th December, 2020

As we finish the year and look back at the last twelve months it is hard to describe the roller-coaster we have all been on, nor ignore that it looks set to continue for now. We are so grateful for... Read full post
And we have lift off!

Posted on Monday 7th December, 2020

We are stoked to be going live on the website today, all the plant and machinery is now in place, Grant, the lead engineer on our VE setup has been working hard on the ground with the team to get... Read full post
OMG this is sooooooo exciting

Posted on Friday 17th July, 2020

You heard it here first kids. VE paddles is now almost back up and running! After moving all the plant and machinery from Stu's place in Nottingham to the Palm factory in Clevedon, we are constructing the new production... Read full post