Canoeing The Essential Skills & Safety: An Essential Guide-The Essential Skills and Safety

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This book is for all levels of paddlers, providing beginners with the skills they need to manoeuver a canoe effectively on flat water, and offering more experienced paddlers expert advice on how to hone their skills. Whether you enjoy small day trips around local lakes and slow moving rivers, overnight trips, or expeditions, Andrew Westwood's thoughtful and clear breakdown of canoeing principles, skills, and techniques make this book a must have for solo and tandem paddlers who are interested in maximizing their enjoyment of the canoe. This title helps you to learn about: the equipment and how to choose it; Essential strokes and techniques; Offside and advanced strokes; How to paddle tandem and solo; and, Capsize recovery and safety issues. It helps you to learn to paddle a canoe comfortably, efficiently, and safely. The Heliconia Press is the award-winning publisher of paddlesport books and DVDs, founded in Canada in 1995 by the family of World Champion kayaker Ken Whiting. The company specialises in outdoor survival, watersports and extreme fishing.

ANDREW WESTWOOD is a wilderness canoe adventurer, whitewater paddler, open canoe slalom competitor and high school teacher living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Passionate about paddling, he has taught canoeing extensively in both Canada and the United States for over 15 years and is a regular contributing writer to outdoor and paddling magazines. Andrew has also garnered many first place finishes in international slalom events, has guided on the Nahanni River, the North Shore of Lake Superior and explored areas of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north.