Reservations Required: https://paddleboston.com/bookings/availabledates.php?actCode=OS-Nav
Ocean Skills: Navigation Full-Day Trip meets at our
Waltham Paddle Shop and travels by van to the day's destination. We plan to return to Waltham approximately 9 hours after the trip departs.
$139 includes full-day trip with expert guiding (max. 5:1 student:instructor ratio) using your own boat.
$155 with a composite or plastic sea kayak (model depends on availability).
Pre-Requisites & Requirements:Before signing up, you must have:
- Formal instruction in bracing and rescue skills on the ocean, like our Ocean Skills or equivalent.
- Formal navigation instruction, like our Introduction to Navigation classroom session, is recommended but not required.
- Previous practice of a wet exit, where you flipped a kayak, removed the sprayskirt, and exited the kayak while underwater.
- Previous practice of an assisted rescue, where you wet-exited the kayak in deep water and were rescued by another kayaker.
- Ability to paddle 6 miles in an outing.
