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Open Water Session

Field trip: Basic Sea Kayaking Course

Open Water Session - Dyes Inlet

Two days of on the water activities, learning basic kayak skills. Wet exits, rescues, and basic paddle strokes will be covered. Prepare to spend much of the day in the water.

Contacts

Bruce Durham
Bruce Durham
Primary Leader
  • Sea Kayak II
  • Casual
  • Mileage: 7.0 nm
  • Pace: 2

You should plan to arrive at Silverdale WaterFront Park at 8:00am. Please be ready to help unload your rental kayak package from trailer. Your clinic begins at 9:15am.  The clinic will include a lunch period of approximately 30 minutes with the clinic ending at 4:30 each day.  And clean up of half hour which all participants and leaders should participate in. Students who have rented kayaks will help load them onto the Olympic Outdoor Sports, Trailer for transportation, back to their company in Port Gamble.

There will be a short debrief meeting with everyone before you depart the park.

Paddle completion sheet: For this purpose plan to be launching from Silverdale Waterfront Park by 10:00am and paddle East towards JA & Anna F. Smith Childrens Park.  For a break or lunch then continue handle baring shoreline until reaching Tracyton boat ramp. Next either dead head or follow the route you came from back to Silverdale Waterfront Park.

May 7th will include a paddle of about 4 to 5 hours or 7nm while on this paddle you’ll be doing your newly acquired skills of wet exiting your kayak. And performing a self-Rescue utilizing your paddle float and Tee rescues as Rescuer and Swimmer and you’ll get to practice your newly acquired strokes. This is your first required Mountaineer’s paddle day.

Route/Place

Dyes Inlet

Roster
Required Equipment

Required Equipment

Sea Kayak, paddle, PFD, spray skirt, pump, and dry suit as a minimum. Neoprene cap is recommended for practicing rescues. Discuss other requirements with the instructor.

The instruction will be performed in a protected, yet open water setting.  The training will typically be two students to an instructor in certain circumstances such as learning rescues and strokes. 

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