Organizer:
Salome Hussein
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Sunday 26 March, 2023
All Day
activities
kayaking
G’day OAC,
I’ve been teasing it for a while, but the details have finally come together.
We will be at Lavender Bay from 0900 -1500.
You can hire Kayaks and kit for $50/day from 1st North Sydney Scouts (mate’s rates, pretty tough to beat).
When your booking is accepted, I’ll send through payment details. If you don’t transfer by March 21st, you may lose your booking to someone else on the waitlist.
This course will cover the basics of paddling a kayak in flatwater (<Grade 1). The aim is to do some drills, develop boat control, and get comfortable with capsizing. The material will be a pre-requisite for Paddle Skills 2.
This course is oriented towards hard-body creek or touring kayaks with a skirt. Other styles of boat won’t be covered (if you still want to attend for some of the rescue knowledge, discuss with me).
Please indicate in sign-up info —
Swimming ability
Past experience if any
Favorite color
(or you’ll be auto-rejected)
Draft Syllabus:
- Equipment and PPE
- Buoyancy and aerated water
- Helmets for whitewater (discuss, but won’t be necessary)
- Paddles and their offsets
- The difference in whitewater kayaks versus sea kayaks and other craft
- Correct posture and foot pegs in your boat
- Boat control:
- Carrying your equipment
- paddler’s box (injury prevention)
- Turning, stopping: forward, reverse, sweep
- Draw stroke
- High/low brace
- Edging
- Self rescue and risk management:
- Hazard identification
- River communication (whistles and hand signals)
- Capsize drills: wet exit and re-entry, T-rescue
Requirements:
- Swim 50m confidently
- Carry 15kg-25kg safely (or with assistance) for a distance of 50m (ON LAND — I didn’t realise this needed clarifying until people expressed surprise at carrying weight in water. The boats are just heavy, folks)
Recommended but not required gear:
Goggles, noseplugs, earplugs, wetsuit.
See you on the water,
sam and stu
