NOVICE SOLO CANOE
Top 3 Reasons to Go
- New England's only guaranteed summer whitewater only 2 hours from Boston and 3 1/2 hours from New York
- Our friendly professional instructors are ACA certified and love passing on their passion for the sport. Our ratio of 1 instructor to 4 students assures lots of personal attention.
- Our full service adventure resort offers onsite camping and lodging
Canoeing is a terrific sport for paddlers of all ages and abilities. Solo canoeing combines the subtlety of canoe strokes with the excitement of surfing waves, catching high-speed eddies, and spinning on a dime in the midst of a rapid. In these fast-paced canoeing clinics for novices, Zoar Outdoor's expert playboaters start by teaching you fundamental canoe strokes, leans and maneuvers on flatwater and progress to moving water and finally to class II whitewater canoeing.
Our fleet of state-of-the-art solo playboats is available to paddlers who do not have their own. These clinics are great for avid recreational or river canoers who want to get into solo whitewater canoeing.
WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE
Goal of the clinic
To introduce the sport of whitewater canoeing and teaching the basic techniques for safe paddling on moderate rivers.
Who should take the clinic
To take this course you should be in reasonable physical condition, be comfortable in the water, and have an interest in paddling. Our minimum age for this clinic is 14
What will be covered
After introducing the sport and the equipment, we will get our first taste of the boats in the security of a pond where we can practice exiting and leaning the canoe, and learn the basic strokes, including sweep strokes, forward strokes, draws, and braces. Once people are comfortable in the boats, we will head to moving water where we will introduce river maneuvers such as the eddy turn, peel out, and ferry. On the second day we will continue to work on river maneuvers, and we will end by running a several-mile-long, class I-II section of river.
2008 DATES
May 31-June 1(Sat-Sun), July 5-6(Sat-Sun),
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August 14-15(Thu-Fri), September 6-7(Sat-Sun)
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PRICE
midweek $240.00
weekend $280.00
