Canoeing The Essential Skills and Safety

Canoeing: The Essential Skills and Safety 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.

You'll learn:
* The equipment and how to use it
* Essential strokes & techniques
* Offside and advanced strokes
* How to paddle tandem and solo
* Capsize recovery and safety issues