Portsmouth Pool Session

5:30-7:30PM (Directions below)

Arrive early please and bring a clean boat

Are you ready to practice your roll? Do you want to perfect your re-entry technique? Are you afraid that time spent without practicing a high-brace will leave you high and wet? Or do you just miss being in your boat?

All of our pool sessions this year will be the "Open Practice" format where you can learn from your peers. Things that can be practiced in a pool include skills, techniques and strokes that do not need an expanse of water, such as:

* Wet exits;

* Rescues, assisted and unassisted;

* Equipment testing, exploration, shakedown, usage or just getting

comfortable, for example, using a paddle float for rescues;

* Strokes not needing an expanse of water, such as draw and pry;

* Rolling, bracing, balance bracing, sculling, etc.

Equipment for pool sessions includes:

* PFD -- required for anyone in a boat in a pool session.

* Spray skirt -- required for the vast majority of skills to be

practiced.

* Paddle float -- optional, for rescue practice, rolling practice, etc.

* Pump -- optional for practice involving capsized or swamped boats

* Goggles or a face mask -- highly recommended for practice that

involves immersion, since chlorinated pools can be hard on the eyes.

PLEASE NOTE:

NSPN requires that payment for the pool sessions must be made in advance of the pool session. Your Registrar will provide you with the details that you need to know. Pool sessions are non-refundable.

Pbrady at neaq dot org for the reservation

Peter Brady- Registrar

8 Birchmeadow Road

Amesbury, MA 01913

978-388-4051

cell phone is 617-877-5824

$20 for members, $40 for non-NSPN members

Directions

Seacoast Family YMCA Main Facility:

550 Peverly Hill Road, Portsmouth, NH 03801

Telephone: 603.431.2334

From the North: In New Hampshire take Route 4 South or from Maine use Route 95 South. Take Exit 6 and go to the Portsmouth traffic circle. Take the Route 1 Bypass exit. Follow Route 1 Bypass through several traffic lights and merge onto Route 1 South (Lafayette Road). You will see Pier 1 and Ethan Allen Furniture on the left. When you see Yoken's on your right, turn right at the traffic light on to Mirona Road. At the next stop sign take another right onto Peverly Hill Road. The Y is immediately on your right.

From the South: Take Route 95 North to Exit 3. At the end of the exit ramp take a right onto Route 33 (Greenland Road). Within a mile you will see a baseball field on your left with a traffic light ahead. At the light take a right on to Peverly Hill Road. Proceed to the Seacoast Family YMCA which will be on your left.

From Hampton / Rye: Proceed North on Route 1 (Lafayette Road) past Wal Mart and Water Country. When you see the Market Basket on the left Yoken's will be in view on the left. Take a left at the traffic light onto Peverly Hill Road and follow through the light. The "Y" will be on your right immediately after the lights

YMCA Website: http://www.seacoastymca.org/

As always, plan to arrive early to get in the water on time at 5:15 p.m. and move quickly to get cleaned up and out of the YMCA as quickly as possible when the session ends.