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Updated on June18th. Spring, summer, winter, fall, any time we are in town, we are available, by appointment, to help build your skinny stick skill set. Built to suit individuals and groups, beginners to advanced. Be your passion flat water or combat rolling or paddling on/in calm or bumpy or salt water. If you are interested, please drop us a line. June 21 NEW! a Greenlandic Intensive, both strokes and rolling, at The Small Boat Shop!, Norwalk, Connecticut. Also on July 3rd and October 12. Check their site to register! June 27-28-29 On the heels of the revival of HRGF last year, We will again be mentoring learners AND mentors in a skills beehive at the Hudson River Greenland Festival. This is going to be a kayak full of fun, and will feature a four Ps relay race to end all relay races! Rest assured, it will be the Greenlandic giggle of the summer!...Go to the HRGF website for more information, and registration materials! Come on Greenies! Space is limited, and these spots are going to go fast! July 3 a Greenlandic Intensive, both strokes and rolling, at The Small Boat Shop, Norwalk, Connecticut. Check their site to register! July 4 & 5 We'll be working with Paddler's Cove in the Delaware Water Gap area of New Jersery, running rolling Intensives for two days. in association with Kayak Adventure LLC. See their schedule for more information. July 6 We'll be doing a Greenland Skills Intensive in association with Kayak Adventure LLC. See their schedule for more information. July 12, 13 DATE CHANGE! We'll again be in the Finger Lakes area doing what we do best... exact location and schedule TBD but please stay tuned, as this gathering is ALWAYS a hoot!. August 1-3 We will be giving Greenlandic sessions, in association with Osprey Sea Kayak Adventures, of Westport and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For more info and to register for these sessions please go to their website! August 7-27 UPDATE! We will be in the Pacific Northwest, with workshops on the 9th at Comox Valley Kayak in Courtney, BC and on the 10th Pacifica Paddle Sports in Victoria, BC and privates elsewhere in British Columbia, woven amongst several days of paddling, and we'll be teaching, beginning on the 17th, at the LOCO Roundup on the Lower Columbia River in Oregon. August 29-31 Labor Day weekend we teach rough water skinny stick skills at the New England Rough Water Instructional Symposium off the Rhode Island coast. Matunuck, The Race, The Narrows, Napatree... It is all good! Come work on your bumpy water skill set! Tom and june Bergh, of Maine Island Kayak fame, are organizing the weekend. Lots of info up on their site, registration materials, list of instructors, etc... September 5-7 We'll be mentoring at The Gathering, a skinny stick event being held at Crow Wing Crest Lodge, Akeley, Minnesota. There will a SOF workshop following this event. See the workshops link in the left hand margin for more detail. October 3-5 We will be teaching the skinny at TAKS, exact California location to be determined, (Hearst Beach, San Simeon State Park?, Mendocino?, Trinidad? ), doing what we do! One thing for sure, the water won't be flat or fresh! More info available here. We hope to see lots of skinny stick left-coasters there! October 12 a Greenlandic Intensive, both strokes and rolling, at The Small Boat Shop, Norwalk, Connecticut. Check their site to register! October 17-21 We are returning to Tybee Island, Georgia to teach skinny stick methods at the Sea Kayak Georgia's Skills Symposium. This is a fantastic event, great people, bumpy and warm water in the Tybee 'Triangle' and environs, great food and atmosphere, and you will have an opportunity to learn from some of the finest instructors in the world. Did we mention the dolphins? Check out their Symposium link for details! Join us! We have struggled with this weekend as Delmarva Paddler's Retreat moved their dates from their historical early October dates due to Jewish Holidays, and SKG has moved their dates back into mid-October from the Halloween slot, in order to chase the best Tidal condtions of the year. And now? This year, we can only be at one place at one time;-(... We made a commitment to our good friends at SKG before we knew that DPR had made THEIR date change, and with that committment we will miss the Retreat for the first time in a long while. Hopefully this calendar snafu won't exist next year. Also, after very cool and productive Skin on Frame workshops in Vermont and Connecticut this past summer, and Florida and two in upper New York State this past winter and spring, there will be more upcoming in 2008. Many more are in the works! Check out our Workshop Itinerary page for more detail. Perhaps also in a neighborhood near you? The upcoming schedule holds Minnesota in September. Currently in planning stages are late fall and winter/spring builds in Florida, Nova Scotia, Perth, Australia, Maryland, and Isle of Skye, Scotland. Stay tuned. if you are interested in helping organize one and/or you have a venue that we can bring a workshop to for a couple of weeks, be in touch! Ongoing Going forward, be sure to check back here on a regular basis! We are on the cusp of a slew of other announcements, both local and far away, for the outdoor season. We will be covering the waterfront, of that you can be sure! As we noted at the very top of this page, we offer private and semi-prvate instruction on a regular basis. There are ALWAYS possibilities. If you would like to arrange private, semi-private or group instruction in Greenlandic techniques, featuring low-volume kayaks, traditional paddles, norsaq, and tuiliq, for 1 to 8 students, please do not hesitate to contact us for more details on our offerings. Inquire at h2o@kayakways.net Turner builds custom skin on frame qajaq, as well as custom traditional solid wood paddles, custom fit to you and designed with the water you paddle in, in mind. You might be interested in his background in building, or the way he fits a paddler to a kayak. Contact Turner for more information. Cheri offers a 'yoga for paddlers' class format for individuals or clubs who feel they are limited by their flexibility, or want to customize their yoga practice as a cross-training tool for paddling. She will share her insights into the many benefits yoga offers for both rolling and paddling. Please contact her! We also have some pictures from our past travels posted at our photo gallery. There you will find pix sketches from Vermont Madness 2006, a July 4th weekend on Black Island in Maine, a sampling of shots from an August 2006 SOF workshop at Seneca Lake, NY, and a slideshow ushering in 2007 with a smattering of people and place pixs from near and far. And don't forget all that video footage of rolling that we will continue to update. As they are quite high resolution, we only ask that once to view them you download them to your computer rather than continuing to reload them from our site. This will allow us to contiinue this free service to you without incurring any more additional server fees! Yikes! We also offer presentations on these paddling topics, above. Please contact us at h2o@kayakways.net if you or your group have an interest or questions about any of these offerings, or would like to have us teach, demo, or present a talk/slideshow at a future event in YOUR area, for YOUR group Comments? Questions? We'd love to hear from you! Send mail to: h2o@kayakways.net G o T o p !