Sausalito Yellow Bluff Tide Race
Enhance your skills in more challenging conditions
Highlights
- Prerequisite: Intro to intermediate sea kayak instruction (with Sea Trek or another program), solid Level 3 boat control and rescues, and comfort edging in dynamic water
- Learn to read and use tides, eddies, currents and wind
- Practice attainment, eddy turns, peel-outs and ferries
- Optional rescues in current
- Expert instruction
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This class is for sea kayakers ready to take their skills into moving water. If you’ve taken intro to intermediate sea kayak instruction (with us or elsewhere), have solid Level 3 boat control and rescues, and are comfortable holding an edge in dynamic water, you’re ready for Yellow Bluff.
Just inside the Golden Gate, the Yellow Bluff tide race is one of the best places on the Bay to train in current. We launch from Horseshoe Cove/Fort Baker and paddle beyond our usual Richardson Bay boundaries, with instructors close by so you can stretch your skills with plenty of support.
What you’ll learn: How tides, eddies, currents and wind interact, and how to work with them. We’ll practice attainment, eddying out, peeling out and ferrying, with optional rescues in current for those who want them.
The class runs in single traditional sea kayaks. Not sure it’s the right fit? Call us at (415) 332-8494 and we’ll help you find your next step.
Directions
We leave from the boat ramp in front of the US Coast Guard Station Golden Gate in Ft. Baker, off Sommerville Road. The most convenient parking is on either side of Sommerville Road, past the Coast Guard Station.
JOIN THE ADVENTURE
Ages 14 years old and up. Please call for questions about kids under 14 years old.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.+
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