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Alaska Kayak School
June 2003
Contact us for
more information -[email protected]
, (907) 235-2090.
Course Descriptions
1. Kachemak Kayak Festival.
The finest week of kayaking Homer has to offer - the school
offers a used gear sale and a series of skills courses that
build in difficulty through the week. It’s a nice progression,
discover the possibilities ….
We begin the festival with beginner and intermediate skills
courses, (Skills I & II), Safety and Rescue and Introduction
to Sea Kayak Navigation, and end the 10 days with Wind and Waves
and Tides and Currents courses/trips. Lots of other activities
such a kayak film festival, kayaker fashion show, keynote speaker
and author Chris Duff, kids programs, door prizes, gear swap,
used gear sale (kayak school), kayak and skill demos, and all
here in Homer and on Kachemak Bay. Call the Homer Chamber of
Commerce 235-7740 or visit the Fest website, www.kachemakkayakfest.com
for more in formation.
If you want to build up your kayaking skills, spend a few
days paddling with us, and enjoy your new paddling Shtick
the rest of the summer! See ya Memorial Day.
2. Sea Kayak
Safety and Rescue. 9 AM - 5 PM. Learn about safety
and design features of clothing, PFDs, paddles, & kayaks.
Learn about signaling equipment, hypothermia prevention and
clothing, group awareness, clean wet exit, swim with your
kayak, cowboy scramble, t-rescue, x-rescue, Eskimo rescue,
on the water first aid, on the water boat repair. Beginner
to Advanced paddlers. All equipment provided, including Kokatat
Gore-tex dry suits. Space limited, Contact: [email protected]
or 235-2090.
Where: to be announced, depends on conditions
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Fee: $85
When: 1 June Tuesday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
3. Sea Kayak Navigation Workshop.
7-9 PM. Introduction to sea kayak navigation. Practice and
learn basic chart and compass skills, and plan a kayak day
trip. Hands on learning. Students should bring compass, map
or chart of Kachemak Bay, 12" piece of string, pencil
and ruler. Practice laying a course, estimating time and distance,
identifying of marine hazards and escape routes. Learn about
tides, currents and marine weather for your trip planning.
Develop a plan for a day trip.
Where: Captain's Coffee,
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Fee: $20
When: 1 June Tuesday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
4. Wind and Waves.
Controlling your kayak in conditions. 9 AM - 5 PM. Increase
your confidence and ability to paddle in open water conditions
where wind and waves strongly affect your kayak. What is weather
cocking? How do you counter act it? Where do wind and waves
come from? Are they predictable? If your rudder breaks (yoicks!),
how can you maneuver your kayak without it in the wind? We
will practice surf landings and launchings if conditions allow.
All equipment provided, including Kokatat Gore-tex dry suits.
Space limited, Contact: [email protected] or 235-2090.
Where: Captain's Coffee, Pioneer Ave. 9 AM
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Pre-requisites: Previous skills and rescue training.
Fee: $85
When: 2 June Wednesday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
5. Tides and Currents.
Halibut Cove Lagoon. 9 AM-5 PM What are the differences between
tides and currents? What are tidal streams? Tidal Races? Overfalls?
Increase your confidence and ability to paddle in tidal channels,
tidal races, and overfalls where the speed of the current
is faster than you can paddle! Practice wet exits and rescues,
and learn to make "whitewater" moves in a sea kayak:
eddy-turns, peel outs, ferries, etc. Great place to put your
pool roll to the test! All equipment provided, including Kokatat
Gore-tex dry suits. Space limited, Contact: , [email protected]
or 235-2090.
Where: Mako's Water Taxi, Homer Spit 9 AM.
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Pre-requisites: Confident wet exit.
Fee: $125
When: 3 June, Thursday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
6. Tides and Currents.
Halibut Cove Lagoon. 9 AM-5 PM What is the difference between
tides and currents? What are tidal streams? Tidal Races? Overfalls?
Increase your confidence and ability to paddle in tidal channels,
tidal races, and overfalls where the speed of the current
is faster than you can paddle! Practice wet exits and rescues,
and learn to make "whitewater" moves in a sea kayak:
eddy-turns, peel outs, ferries, etc. Great place to put your
pool roll to the test! All equipment provided, including Kokatat
Gore-tex dry suits. Space limited, Contact: , [email protected]
or 235-2090.
Where: Mako's Water Taxi, Homer Spit 9 AM.
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Pre-requisites: Confident wet exit.
Fee: $125
When: 4 June Friday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
7. Test Drive - Demo Event: 9 AM-5
PM. Test a wide array of modern kayaks in the controlled environment
of the Barge Basin with support from experienced kayakers
and instructors. Dress in layered insulating clothing, synthetics
best, with a waterproof outer layer, such as a rain jacket.
You will receive a safety orientation before launching. Contact:
[email protected] or 235-2090.
Where: Homer Spit Marine Terminal Barge Basin
Fee: $10/person/day
When: 5 June, Saturday
No advance arrangements necessary, must sign waiver and wear
protective clothing and Personal Flotation Device.
8. Skills and Rescue Demonstration
11 AM-12 PM. Come watch local kayak coaches and instructors
maneuvering sea kayaks, demonstrating strokes, maneuvers,
preventing capsizes, recovery strokes, Eskimo rolls to regain
balance, and efficient assisted and self-rescues.
Where: Homer Spit Marine Terminal Barge Basin
FREE
When: 5 June, Saturday
No advance arrangements necessary.
9. Sea Skills I, Introduction:
1-5 PM. - Learn and practice sea kayaking basics in an afternoon
of games, drills, races and instruction. Safe carrying and
lifting, launching and landing, safe capsize and wet exit,
balance, propulsion, stopping, turning, hypothermia and clothing,
group awareness, kayak, paddle, and more. Novice to Intermediate
paddlers. Space limited, Contact: [email protected]
or 235-2090. All equipment provided, including Kokatat Gore-tex
dry suits.
Where: Homer Spit Marine Terminal Barge Basin
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Fee: $55
When: 5 June, Saturday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
10. Kayak Test Drive
- Demo Event: 9 AM-5 PM. Test a wide array of modern kayaks
in the controlled environment of the Barge Basin with support
from experienced kayakers and instructors. Dress in layered
insulating clothing, synthetics best, with a waterproof outer
layer, such as a rain jacket. You will receive a safety orientation
before launching. Space limited, Contact: [email protected]
or 235-2090.
Where: Homer Spit Marine Terminal Barge Basin
Fee: $10/person/day
When: 6 June, Sunday
No advance arrangements necessary, must sign waiver and wear
protective clothing and Personal Flotation Device.
11. Sea Skills II, Beginner-Intermediate.
1-5 PM. Reinforce sea kayaking basics (sea skills I) and
improve the efficiency of your strokes, maneuvers and rescues
in an afternoon of games, drills, races and instruction. Safe
capsize and wet exit, precision efficient strokes, fast and
effective rescues, and towing. Great follow-up course to Sea
Skills I. Beginners to Advanced paddlers. Space limited, Contact:
[email protected]
or 235-2090. All equipment provided, including Kokatat Gore-tex
dry suits
Where: Homer Spit Marine Terminal Barge Basin
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Fee: $55
When: 6 June, Sunday
Register: Alaska Kayak School, (907) 235-2090, [email protected]
12 / 13. Passage
Canal Sea School - beginner/intermediate Sea Kayaking
skills - Whittier. Develop open water paddling skills during
this 2-day course in beautiful Passage Canal. First day devoted
to general boat control, safety, clothing, rescues, and group
awareness. Put it all together on a day trip on the second
day. Trip planning, safe carrying, launching and landing,
clothing and essential gear, effective strokes and maneuvers,
safety equipment and procedures, rescues, towing, ocean play,
navigation, and more. Pre-requisites: previous sea kayaking
experience and confident wet exit desirable, but not essential.
Beginners to Advanced.
Dates: 12, 13 June (Sat., Sun.)
Where: Alaska Sea Kayakers, Passage Canal, Whittier
Fee: $265 + tax
Registration: Call or email AKS 235-2090, [email protected]
or Alaska Sea Kayakers 907-472-2534, www.alaskaseakayakers.com
14. Sea Kayak Safety
and Rescue. 9 AM - 5 PM. Learn about safety and design
features of clothing, PFDs, paddles, & kayaks. Learn about
signaling equipment, hypothermia prevention and clothing,
group awareness, clean wet exit, swim with your kayak, cowboy
scramble, t-rescue, x-rescue, Eskimo rescue, on the water
first aid, on the water boat repair. Beginner to Advanced
paddlers. All equipment provided, including Kokatat Gore-tex
dry suits. Space limited, Contact: [email protected]
or 235-2090.
When: 16 June Wednesday
Where: to be anounced, depends on conditions
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Fee: $105
Call or email. 235-2090, [email protected]
15. Sea Skills I
& II: 9 AM-5 PM. Learn and practice the basics
of sea kayaking in a day of drills, games, competitions and
fun. Safe carrying and lifting, launching and landing, safe
capsize and wet exit, rescues and capsize prevention, use
of the body to power and maneuver the kayak, towing, stopping,
turning, group awareness, kayak, paddle, and more. Novice
to intermediate paddlers. All equipment provided, including
Kokatat Gore-tex dry suits. Space limited, Contact: [email protected]
or 235-2090.
When: 20 June, Sunday
Where: to be announced, depends on conditions
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Fee: $105
Call or email. 235-2090, [email protected]
16. Wind and Waves. Open water.
9 AM - 5 PM. Increase your confidence and ability
to paddle in open water conditions where wind and waves strongly
affect your kayak. What is weather cocking? How do you counter
act it? Where do wind and waves come from? Are they predictable?
If your rudder breaks (yoicks!), how can you maneuver your
kayak without it in the wind? We will practice surf landings
and launchings if conditions allow. All equipment provided,
including Kokatat Gore-tex dry suits. Space limited, Contact:
[email protected] or 235-2090.
When: 21 June, Monday
Where: Captain's Coffee, Pioneer Ave. 9 AM
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Pre-requisites: Previous skills and rescue training.
Fee: $105
Call or email. 235-2090, [email protected]
17. Wind and Waves - Rock Gardens.
Put the whitewater in your sea kayaking bag of tricks. Practice
maneuvering your kayak in flat water in the morning and take
your new skills on an exploration of some of Kachemak Bay's
loveliest sites, the rocky shorelines of the south side of
the bay. Practice strokes, maneuvers, and improve your rescue
skills and safety awareness. Great fun (all plastic sea kayak
fleet) and exciting too! All equipment provided.
When: 22 June, Tuesday
Where: to be announced, depends on conditions
Who: Alaska Kayak School
Pre-requisites: Previous skills and rescue training.
Fee: $165
Call or email. 235-2090, [email protected]
18. Kachemak Bay Sea School -
beginner/intermediate Sea Kayaking skills - 3 Days @ Otter
Cove Resort, Tutka Bay. Spend a long weekend developing the
full repertoire of skills you'll need to safely paddle sea
kayaks as member of a group in placid to moderate conditions.
Trip planning, safe carrying, launching and landing, group
awareness, clothing and essential gear, effective strokes
and maneuvers, safety equipment and procedures, rescues, towing,
ocean play, navigation, and more. Includes water taxi, 2 dinners,
3 lunches, 2 breakfasts, 2 nights lodging in 4-person cabins,
and all kayaking instruction and equipment (including dry
suit). Depart Homer Harbor for Tutka Bay 10 AM of day 1. Expect
first afternoon orientation and short paddle, and all-day
session on second and third days. Water taxi departure back
to Homer around 5:30 PM of day 3. You bring personal clothing,
sleeping bag and other personal items. Pre-requisites: previous
sea kayaking experience and confident wet exit desirable,
but not essential.
Dates: 25, 26, 27 June 2004
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Fee: $450 + tax
Registration: Homer Ocean Charters, www.homerocean.com, (800)
426-6212, or Alaska Kayak School, [email protected],
(907) 235-2090.
19. Introduction to River Kayaking
- Safety, equipment, signaling, flatwater practice and a short
river run to practice paddling in current. Ferries, eddy turns,
spins, rescues, safe swimming, and a little play boating make
this an easy introduction to this fantastic sport. Great course
for most Alaska Kayak School graduates interested in learning
river kayaking!
Dates: 30 June, Wednesday
Fee: $125
Where: Kasilof River
Pre-requisites: Confident wet exit and good swimming ability,
or a confident pool roll.
Call or email. 235-2090, [email protected]
20. Woz River Trip: Woz
Glacier to Kachemak Bay - Be one of a few to have paddled
the Woz River in Kachemak Bay State Park, a lovely class I-II
bouncy and very scenic wilderness run is a very short flight
across Kachemak Bay from Homer. Braided in places, several
chutes and wave trains carry you down to rocky walls and several
tight corners, sweepers and log jams in places require easy
portages. Great Fun! We fly from Beluga Lake and land and
launch into the glacial lake under the Woz Glacier. Spend
a day practicing river paddling moves while winding down to
Neptune Bay beach on the shores of Kachemak Bay. This is just
about due south of Lands End on the Homer Spit. This is the
reason you learned to kayak! Join the fun!!!
Dates: 1 July, Wednesday
Fee: $185
Where: Beluga Lake/Woz River
Pre-requisites: Confident wet exit and good swimming ability,
or a confident pool roll.
Call or email. 235-2090, [email protected]
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