Hosted by the Columbia slough watershed council, this annual celebration of the slough is the largest one-day paddle in Oregon. The council provides 15-20 paddle craft on a reservation basis and encourages the public to bring their own boats.
Flotilla 76 has participated in a number of paddle craft focused events in recent years. This is the first event where we developed focused paddle craft education materials (handouts & posters). The paddling specific material developed was based on the work done in District 1 for their Paddle Safe 2009 campaign. Seven vessel exams were conducted – we have some gaps to fill in our knowledge to maximize the educational value of vessel exams for paddlers. We plan an ongoing outreach effort to the padding community and will be receiving two kayaks next week funded by a boating safety grant from OSMB. We will use the kayaks as static displays and hopefully as operational facilities, within the limitations of such vessels, in the future once we have PCO qualified members.
A PDF versions of the new cold water poster can be found here (matrix only) or here (matrix and PNW information).
A PDF version of the paddling safety poster can be found here.
Please send me any corrections or additions to these three posters and I will update them for our next event.
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