Half and Full Day Instructional Courses
Courses & Classes
Do you want to learn new skills or practice one particular skill? Interested becoming a better sea kayaker this season? Well the half (3hr) and full day (6-8hr) instructional courses are great options for you. In this program you will get tailored instruction on skills that you have always desired to learn. In these half and full day courses you could learn valuable techniques to improve your paddling strokes, paddling skills and rescue skills. The 3hr sessions is a really basic intro/refresher session that introduces sea kayak safety, basic strokes and rescues. The full day kayak program is a little bit more in depth and will provide you will the Paddle Canada Basic Sea Kayaking Skills certification.
For all our courses in Rossport we can offer room and board packages with Nestled In Nature Bnb on Nicol Island. The perfect place to kick back and relax with a nice meal, sauna and campfire right on the shores of Lake Superior. Accomodation in one of the 3 bedrooms is $100/night and includes breakfast. Lunches to go $15/person and dinners can be prepared for $30/person.
Reach out to us to get more information and availability of these courses if you can’t see a date that works for you in our calendar system.
3hr Instructional Clinics
We offer morning, afternoon and evening sessions in a variety of different locations including: Boulevard Lake in Thunder Bay, Rossport, and other locations. We are working hard to schedule more courses to meet the demand so if you don’t see a day listed on here please reach out to us directly and we will do our best to schedule. We will also post on our Facebook and Instagram so stay tuned into our social media content too. We can also do 3hr private lessons for $250+HST for those interested that can include learning how to roll.
To run these 3hr session at the rate below we need a minimum of 3 people otherwise we need to charge the private lesson rate.
Full Day Instructional
We can offer $80 for the 3hr session and $120 for the full day sessions if you are Bringing your own (BYO) sea kayak.
If courses are happening on Lake Superior drysuits are required and rental rates are an addition $20 for 3hr session and $30 for full day session
All prices are subject to 13% HST
Gear included:
- Sea kayak, spray skirt, paddle, and PFD
- Kayak safety equipment (whistle, bilge pump, buoyant heaving line)
- Immersion gear (wetsuit or drysuit subject to an extra cost)
- Neoprene gloves/pogies (early/late season)
- Small Dry bags 5-20L for personal items
- First Aid and Repair Kit
- Emergency extra warm clothes
Gear you will need to provide:
- Lunch and snacks
- Water bottle(s) 2-3L capacity
- Appropriate base and thermal layers top and bottom – non cotton (wool/polyester)
- Paddle clothing and footwear (neoprene booties are best but old runners with wool/neoprene socks will work. We have some if you don’t have)
- Warm change of clothes and rain gear top/bottom
- appropriate footwear for walking around the island
- Sun hat
- Sunglasses (with straps recommended)
- Waterproof sunscreen
- Camera
