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"Introduction to Canoeing"
A Complete Guide to Enjoying the Most Versatile of Watercraft
The canoe is the purest of watercraft. Its simplicity is both elegant and efficent. It enables you and your family to go places on the water that no other craft can reach. It does not disturb nature; it blends with the environment. In this video you will receive all the tools to get started and keep going in your canoe.
    Featuring:
  • How to select the canoe, paddle and accessories that are right for you.
  • Canoe paddling strokes such as J-stroke, draw and pry.
  • getting into the canoe from a beach or on a river.
  • How to get into current with a "peel-out" or enter against the current with an "eddy turn".
  • How to tie the canoe to your car safely and what knots to use.
  • Learn to read the current in a river and, for the more adventuresome, how to run rapids safely and surely.
    $19.99 (VHS app. 35 min.)
Introduction to Canoeing
(Produced by Richard A. Diercks with the cooperation of Old Town Canoe, Carlisle Paddles, Eureka! Tent, Camp Trails Packs and Silva Compass, 1990)

Canoe & Kayak the Tidelands of Coastal South Carolina with
Black River Outdoors Center
Located in Coastal South Carolina's Tidelands Between Charleston and Myrtle Beach

21 Garden Ave., Georgetown, SC 29440 / 3 Miles North on Hwy. 701
Open Year Round Mon - Sat 9am - 5:30pm, Sometimes Earlier, Sometimes Later, Sometimes Sundays
Tel. 843-546-4840 / eMail: info@BlackRiverOutdoors.com