Guides & Guides in Training: Navigation Training at South Beach, Staten Island

For Guides and Guides in Training only
Goals:

• open water experience
• on-water navigation exercises
• on-water trip planning
• visit a new place!

Schedule

• 7:00 AM: meet at boathouse and load boats onto car
• 8:00 AM: depart boathouse for Staten Island South Beach
• 9:00 AM: arrive at South Beach; unload boats
• 9:45 AM: safety briefing and plan of day
• 10:00 AM: launch from South Beach
• 1:00 PM: turn around point
• 3:00 PM: land at South Beach; bring boats to cars
• 4:00 PM: depart from South Beach to HCCB
• 5:00 PM: arrive at HCCB and unload boats
• 6:00 PM: trip ends
• eat?

Note: there are no places to land or get out of your boat. We will eat and take breaks on the water.

This trip requires us to cartop boats to South Beach. We are limited by the number of boats we can put on a car/vehicle, so when you RSVP please indicate if

• you can bring a car
• how many boats you can carry on your car
• how many people you can fit in your car

It's ok if you don't have a car or can't carry a boat, we just need to make sure we have enough cars first!

Prerequisites:

• Guide in Training/Guide
• 4 public embayment shifts
• you are okay being on the water for ~5 hours without landing