A sad view on the boathouse of the Dunajčík canoe club from the flood barrier. (source: Courtesy of VK Dunajčík)
Just a week after Bratislava canoe club Dunajčík celebrated its centenary, its members are now waiting for flood waters to recede so they begin to try and save it.
“We didn’t expect to be saving the boathouse just a week after the 100th anniversary celebrations,” Martin Mišík from the club’s leadership told The Slovak Spectator.
“The whole weekend we were preparing the boathouse for the floods.”
The club’s boathouse, which sit on the banks of the Danube, were flooded last weekend as Slovakia, along with much of central Europe, was hit by storm Boris that brought heavy rainfall, swelling rivers and driving floods that claimed 23 lives across the region of central Europe.
Read in this article
-History of the Dunajčík canoe club
-What its members value most
-When its new boathouse will be built
VK Dunajčík canoe club
launched in 1924
located on the Petržalka embankment close to the Apollo bridge (Klokočova cesta 5)
the current boathouse was built in 1946
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Mišík and other club members had been following the forecasts and spent the weekend getting the club’s equipment and furniture to safety. By the time the boathouse, a former military barracks, was flooded on Monday, they had saved all its boats – three could still be seen earlier this week bobbing about a few metres from the building on the surface of the swollen river, tied safely to a tree. The rest had been moved up onto the roof of the boathouse.
When Mišík spoke to The Spectator at the start of this week, the water stood at around one metre inside the building.
