RE: [Paddlewise] Paddlesports show at UNH

Allison Corning wrote:

>
> I'm glad to see that something like this is really popular and that the
> sport seems to be thriving, but it is a telling thing when there are three
> times as many people in the seminar on how to buy a boat than in the one
on
> basic navigation skills.
> -A
>
>
Mike Wrote:

>The navigation class was the only seminar that I attended.  I tried to do
the
>buying a boat seminar because my friend was in the process at that time,
but she
>said it ws too crowded and stuffy.  o we went back out to the show.  The
>navigation seminar was the one I was most interested in anyway, and my
friend
>got a lot out of it too.
>On a side note, the next day I took that friend to the Country Canoeist
(great
>shop in Dunbarton, NH) and she is now the proud owner of a CD Solstice.
She
>picks it up on the 25th.


I was at that class as well.  I was the person who questioned the instructor
on why none of his navigation instruction took into account wind, currents
or tides.  After all the class was called coastal navigation.  I was
bewildered by that the entire time but maybe it was because there is only so
much you can teach in an hour.

I did find the suggestion of using "safety bearings" a good idea.  For those
not in the know, the tip was basically to take a bearing on an object and
use that bearing as a guide to stay in a "safe zone".  Through out the
paddle trip you would take bearing readings to see if you were in or outside
of your zone and react accordingly.
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