| Novice |
| Water Safety: |
- Understand the basic water safety rules
- Know what to do if your canoe dumps.
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| Correct Stroke: |
Know and demonstrate how to perform a basic stroke.
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| Ability: |
Know and demonstrate how to hold a paddle correctly.
Be able to safely enter and exit a canoe.
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Beginners |
| Water Safety: |
- Swim 50 yards
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| Correct Stroke: |
Use proper stern stroke around triangle course.
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| Ability |
Launch and land a canoe with help, from and to a dock and get in and out correctly.
Paddle 100 yards in 60 seconds.
Know the main parts of the canoe and paddle.
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| Junior |
| Water Safety: |
- Hang on to a swamped canoe in deep water
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| Correct Stroke: |
Use draw and pry strokes paddling as a bowman.
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| Ability: |
Paddle a half mile alone.
Knew proper balance in a canoe with 3 people plus packs.
Paddle against a strong wind.
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| Intermediate |
| Water Safety: |
- Swim 50 yards with clothes on.
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| Correct Strokes: |
Use box stroke and C-stroke.
Use pry stroke and draw strokes paddling alone.
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| Ability: |
Land a canoe at rocky and sandy shores.
Paddle one mile alone (within controlled area).
Paddle awash 15 metres to shore by hand or with paddle.
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| Senior |
| Water Safety: |
- Do a canoe-over-canoe rescue.
- Climb into a canoe from the water.
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| Correct Stroke |
Feather forward and backward on both sides.
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| Ability: |
Paddle solo both sides.
Paddle 100 metres straightway in 40 seconds.
Know racing position.
Know how to make a minor emergency repair to patch a canoe.
Demonstrate artificial resuscitation from a canoe.
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| Master |
| Water Safety: |
- Demonstrate a canoe-over-canoe rescue with two swamped canoes.
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| Correct Stroke: |
With a crew of two, stern canoe over a set course, involving turns to right, left and backwards.
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| Ability: |
lash a canoe for portaging and place paddles.
Plan and load a canoe for a trip.
Know how to tow an exhausted person with a canoe in a normal paddling position.
Have good trip reports for season. Assist in instruction of others in canoeing.
Know how to line in rapids.
Red Cross Swimming – Grey Level.
Doubles stokes: be able to execute in bow and stern strokes to turn and sideslip: Stern pry and draw (both sides) bow “J”, draw, cross draw and cross pry (both sides). This requires clear communication between paddlers.
Singles Strokes
- Canadian Stroke
- Indian Stroke
- Draw, Pry (to turn and sideslip)
- Cross Draw (to turn and sideslip)
Discussion Requirements
- Basic canoe safety
- Canoe styles, construction materials and uses.
- Care and repair of canoe and paddle.
- History of canoe and its importance in North America.
- Weather forecasting.
- Canoeing risks with respect to wilderness travel.
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To this day, I still remember how to do a “J” Stroke because of what I was taught by Rex Taylor. I can still solo a canoe. I put my life jacket under my knee, kneel down on the right side of the canoe and paddle off by myself. Thanks Rex