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We had scheduled a noon-pool and evening-lake session because of the hot weather. Jim, Stephanie, Mary, and Valerie all wanted to learn rescues and strokes in a sit in kayak. We started with the wet exit with and without sprayskirt, followed by the paddlefloat rescue. Some folks used the stirrup to get on the backdeck. ThenRead more

Stephanie, Paul, Linda, and Anne brought their own sit inside sea kayaks for their 102 class. We started the sunny Sunday morning in the pool with practicing a wet exit with a spray skirt.  After we did the “classic” T-rescue, where the rescuee climbs on the back deck behind the cockpit, while the rescuer stabilizesRead more

Tom with his own sit-on-top kayak, Hans with his own 17-foot-long sit-inside sea kayak, and Richard and Laura with 14-foot sit-inside kayaks from Pack & Paddle had a sunny start in the swimming pool. Here they practiced several self and assisted rescues.             We started with assisted sit-on-top kayak rescues, followed by assistedRead more