technical advice
At Canoe Coaching we offer technical advice to several centres and providers of canoeing and kayaking. Please feel free to contact Tom Sibbald by phone or email if you are interested in these services. The articles and information topics below will help inform as you make decisions. There are documents which answer questions regularly asked. Commonly it is not that answers are unavailable, it is just that it is an effort to track them down.
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Useful documents
- Tick advice and removal
- tick removal PDF
- Beaufort-Verbal
- Wind Speed with verbal descriptions for what you would see on the water surface.
- beaufort verbal
- Definition of Environments
- The BCU definitions for environments. BCU recommendations for appropriate Qualifications
- Definition of Environments (PDF)
- BCU Qualifications/Environment
- Establish the enviroment and select BCU's recommended qualification.
- BCU Qualification for environment (PDF)
- AALA Definition Sheltered Water
- AALA has a more open definition than the BCU
- AALA definition of sheltered water (Word Document)