NOVICE TANDEM RIVER CANOEING IN MASSACHUSETTS
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
If canoeing with your spouse, partner, family member or friend through moderate rapids in a classic 16-foot-plus river-running canoe is your goal, our tandem canoeing clinic will fit your whitewater canoeing needs.
We begin on flatwater teaching basic canoe strokes and canoeing maneuvers from the bow and the stern. After establishing your comfort with the fundamentals of canoe paddling, we transition to moving water where we combine these basic canoe skills with river reading and basic whitewater maneuvers. With a strong emphasis on teamwork and communication in a tandem canoe, these clinics are ideal for more tentative teams or those preparing for longer wilderness canoe trips on which they expect to encounter some moderate rapids.
WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE
Goal of the clinic
To introduce the sport of tandem whitewater canoeing and teach 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 head to moving water where we introduce river maneuvers such as the eddy turn, peel out, and ferry. On the second day we continue to work on river maneuvers, and we end by running a several-mile-long, class I-II section of river.
2008 DATES
June 14-15 (Sat-Sun), July 17-18 (Thu-Fri)*
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August 30-31 (Sat-Sun), September 11-12 (Thu-Fri)*
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PRICE
Midweek $240.00
Weekend $280.00
