Advanced Ocean Skills With Charles River Canoe & Kayak

Advanced Ocean Skills With Charles River Canoe & Kayak

Saturday August 19, 2006

Location: Woods Hole

TIME: TBA

Course Description:

The goal of this course is to get you comfortable with controlling a kayak and doing rescues in current/rough water. The day will begin with an on-land presentation covering various topics including equipment, outfitting the boat, current dynamics, rules of the road, and launching. The on water portion will include stroke work, getting comfortable in mild current with ferry angles, eddy exits, s-turns and doing various rescues in current and rolling in current.

Fee: $90 for NSPN Members

To Register: Send an email to the class facilitator, Paula, at [email protected]. Include your ACA #, boat description, emergency contact name and phone number.

Paula will tell you where to mail your check and will keep the registration list and a waiting list. Paula will only hold your slot when she receives your check made out to NSPN. If you cannot attend you will receive a refund only if your slot can be filled from the waiting list. If the class is oversubscribed Paula will ask if you want to be placed on the waiting list.

All NSPN-sponsored commercial events are run on a “pass-through-the-cost-basis.” NSPN may include a very small markup over actual costs to cover incidental expenses and support club activities that benefit the membership as a whole. These classes are still priced well below what commercial outfitters charge for comparable activities. The club does not subsidize activities that benefit only the participants in classes with limited enrollment. Therefore, in the highly unlikely event that the class is canceled due to extreme weather, there will be no refunds. Lightning will obviously keep us off the water, but much can be learned from these talented teachers on shore.