volinjo_at_juno.com wrote: > > Atlantic Kayak Tours is sponsoring a very different type of symposium > this summer. It's strictly a skills symposium; there will be no vendors, > no boats to try out (although they will have boats from their fleet > availabl for people who can't or don't want to bring their own - and they > have an interesting and varied fleet). This symposium is not designed > for newbies who want to learn about the sport, but for experienced > paddlers who are coming specifically to work on skills. Doug Van Doren > will be teaching traditional (Greenland? Inuit?) paddling. Chris Duff > will be there, both to teach performance paddling and to talk about his > trip around New Zealand. Nigel Dennis will teach navigation skills as > well as paddling and towing techniques. Other instructors are equally > illustrious. > > There will also be BCU courses given before and after the symposium - 3 > Star, 4 Star - both sea kayak and inland, 5 Star, Canoe Safety, and Coach > 2 and 3, all of which will be taught by these instructors. It's possible > to take these courses without attending the symposium, but symposium > participants have first dibs. > > Participants will sign up for the programs that they are interested in > beforehand, and will receive personalized schedules before they arrive at > the symposium. > > This symposium should also be fun, but the emphasis isn't on what Ralph > refers to as "informing and romancing" participants about the sport. > It's on improving skill levels of people who are already committed to the > sport. > > By the way - Derek won't be there. I am going to tease Joan a bit here. She doesn't mention when the Atlantic Kayak Tours symposium is being held and where. I have a vague recall that it is in July and somewhere in New York State. :-) BTW, just an indirect lesson here for any of you who do a club newsletter or send out multipage business letters. I often run across club newsletters in which if one were to photocopy a page to send to a friend, there is no way of knowing from where it was lifted. The publications lack what is termed a running foot, i.e. text at the bottom (or top) margin that says the publication and date. If the club is doing a good enough job to have people send each other pages from it, then it's in the interest of the club, in terms of increasing membership etc., to be identified as the source. In business letters, having a running header avoids the dreaded lost 2nd or 3rd page disaster. That's why it was smart when Jackie began to include info about how to subscribe to PaddleWise in the SIG that automatically appears at the bottom of any listserve generated Paddlewise email. Quite a few listservers fail to do that and lose potential signer-ons. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 05 2000 - 05:12:14 PST
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