Beginner Teach & Trek
6-Hour Course($95)
3 hours of basic stroke and rescue instruction,
Includes Forward, Back,
Sweep, Stern Rudder
and basic Draw strokes
Wet Exit and Assisted Rescues
Learn the correct and safe ways
to enter and exit a kayak
Kayak terminology and basic safety
equipment needs
Ending with a 3-hour, local tour
involving relatively calm waters
Intermediate Teach & Trek
6-Hour Course($95)
3 hours of additonal strokes and rescue
instruction
Includes Bow Rudder, Sculling
Draw, Low Brace,
High Brace, and Sculling for Support
Assisted Rescues, Solo Rescues,
and Towing
Safety Equipment needs for
longer trips
Ending with a 3-hour, local
tour
involving moderately calm waters
Advanced Teach & Trek
6-Hour Course ($95)
3 hours of stroke refinement and in-depth
rescue instruction
Includes refinement of all strokes
Advanced Rescues and Towing
Safety Equipment needs for open water trips
Ending with a 3-hour, local tour
involving challenging waters
Rough Water Teach & Trek
4-Hour Course ($75)
Work the surf in front of the Morris Island Lighthouse
Then practice braces,rolling, surfing,
rough water rescues and towing
Ending with a short journey
via open ocean down Morris Island,
return through the rough breakers putting
all skills to use.
*Bring your helmets.
Teach / Trek / Surf
(Beginner
to Advanced)
6 Hours ($125)
1) Stroke Refinement Module
2) Travel 2-3m to Barrier Island (teach/try as we go)
3) Surf Session off Barrier Island
4) Paddle home to take - out
Surf Zone Fundamentals
introduce the anatomy of a surf beach
recognize spilling, plunging and dumping waves, long shore and rip currents
recognize effects on
surf of swell height, direction and period, beach shape, tide height
and wind speed and direction
learn how to read wave
sets and windows, and how to launch, land and hold
position, under control in surf without being surfed
practice broaching and
side-surfing with correct use of edging and low and high braces
safely negotiate a surf zone during launching
and landing
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