Build the skills over 5 days on this multi-day sea kayak trip/course to strike out independently.  Let us help you build the hard skills and confidence to plan and execute your multi-day sea kayak trip anywhere your imagination can take you.

This course is designed to help novice and intermediate sea kayakers develop the hard skills and confidence to plan and under take their own multi day sea kayak trips in a broad range of seascapes.

Through out the course we will be developing skills both on the water and off so that participants will effectively, show good judgment and act responsibly in group paddling situations. Participants will be able to show these skills while traveling on the water, setting up and managing camp as well as risk management scenarios.

We will be working on developing the following paddling and group management skills in a remote marine and backcountry camping environment.

• Forward and reverse paddling

• Turning with forward and reverse momentum

• Static turns 

• 360 rotation forward and reverse 

• Sideways movement 

• Preventing capsize with braces

• T-rescue

• Scoop rescue

• Hand-of-God

• Stirrup rescue

• Efficient unassisted rescue

• Swimmer carries -bow & stern

• Contact tow 

• Tow – single, inline, V & Rafted tow

• Navigation

• Basic boat repair

• Group management & awareness

• Risk assesment

• communication

• positioning

• Launching and landing

• Environmental awareness

• Weather

• Tides and currents

• conditions

• trip planning

• communications

• Rules of the road

• Leave no trace camping

• Prevention and management of cold water shock and hypothermia

• Wildlife