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Strokes and Manuevers

Clinic

Strokes and Manuevers - Deception Pass

Improve your paddling efficiency and performance. We will spend the day in Bowman Bay reviewing and refining strokes useful for distance paddling and tight maneuvering.

Contacts

Kevin Bulley
Kevin Bulley
Primary Leader
  • Sea Kayak II
  • Moderate
  • Mileage: 1.0 nm
  • Maximum Wind: 15 kts
  • Maximum Waves: 2 ft
  • Pace: 3.0

There’s much more to maneuvering your boat than just forward, reverse, and braking on one side to turn. Learning the maneuvering strokes allows you to control your boat better in wind or waves, or simply to make the boat go where you want it with the least amount of effort. An efficient forward stroke makes you go faster with less effort and make longer trips. Improving your strokes makes kayaking more fun! It provides you the fundamentals for training later in wind, waves, current, and surf.

In this clinic, we start with the fundamentals and “layer” our way up. We’ll cover edging, turning, bracing, sideways movement, forward, and backward strokes.

Meeting Place:  Bowman Bay boat launch ramp.  Discover Pass is required

Meeting time:  08:15

Launch Time:  09:00

Route/Place

Deception Pass


  • Sea Trails Deception Pass and Skagit Bay WA101
    NOAA Bellingham to Everett No. 18423
    NOAA Anacortes to Skagit Bay No. 18427
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Required Equipment

Required Equipment

Immersion wear required. Both Euro and Greenland paddles welcome. 

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