Please click here to Register. [or the upper right corner of each page where it says register Logon] In order to sign up for classes and trips you need to be registered with CKAPCO. Registration is free and a one time event. After you register you simply sign in each time you come to the web site. This gives you access to "Member" information, sign ups etc. Please be sure to input phone contact and physical info. We usually call before events.

This is a link to the CKAPCO Calendar / Schedule. Click here to see up-coming classes and Trips. Below each calendar is a Yellow price/discount schedule of Classes and trips, and a PayPal link. 

Click on the Calendar face [i.e.March 28] to see details of that day's events.  Sign up and payment information is included in that detail, as well as a PayPal link for payment.

If you have any questions, comments, or would like to sign up for an event using a check, money order or gold boullion please contact Mike. 

Mike Aronoff (mikearonoff@aol.com)
703-264-8911 (7 AM - 6 PM EST please)

Please click here to Register. [or the upper right corner of each page where it says register Logon] In order to sign up for classes and trips you need to be registered with CKAPCO. Registration is free and a one time event. After you register you simply sign in each time you come to the web site. This gives you access to "Member" information, sign ups etc. Please be sure to input phone contact and physical info. We usually call before events.

This is a link to the CKAPCO Calendar / Schedule. Click here to see up-coming classes and Trips. Below each calendar is a Yellow price/discount schedule of Classes and trips, and a PayPal link. 

Click on the Calendar face [i.e.March 28] to see details of that day's events.  Sign up and payment information is included in that detail, as well as a PayPal link for payment.

If you have any questions, comments, or would like to sign up for an event using a check, money order or gold boullion please contact Mike. 

Mike Aronoff (mikearonoff@aol.com)
703-264-8911 (7 AM - 6 PM EST please)

Mike recently gave a 2 hour Navigation class to about 20 students. The purpose was twofold, 1.Gauge content appropriate for and comprehension of a mixed group of  Coastal Kayakers; [the subject matter can fill a multi year college course....or a couple of hours. So it's hard to know when to stop] ....and 2. to give a little back to students and teachers.

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN

NAVIGATION

By Mike Aronoff ITE Canoe, Kayak and Paddle Co. L.L.C.

Goal: The goals of this presentation are to introduce students to Basic Navigation and related material, in a practical manner.

Objectives: The students will learn and be aware of:

1. Why Navigation is important to Kayakers.

2. What Navigational Aids are and how Kayakers use them

1. What Aids to Navigation are and how are they are used by Kayakers
2. How tides and tidal currents affect the average recreational kayaker

Length: 2 hours.

Place: Classroom

Equipment: White Board, charts, compasses, Nav Aids and other tools and exhibits including a tide chart and map showing currents

Teaching Model: Group Discussion, lecture, work project, Visuals, Question and Answer. Partner co-op.

Talk Outline

I. Navigation

1. What is: Navigation, piloting , dead reckoning?
2. Do we really need to know about these things?
3. Off shore and in shore, as relevant to kayakers.

II. Tools of Navigation. .

1. What things are navigational aids and what are aids to navigation?
2. Charts and chart tools.
3. Buoys; Day Beacons; Lighthouses etc.
4. Compasses used by kayakers.
5. NavAid

1. Practical Use.

   Using the NavAid.

   1. Plotting a course(s) for a day trip.
   2. Determining how far and how much time a trip will take.
   3. How to stay on a course and know where you are.
   4. Wind, tide and tidal currents.

Evaluation and Summary: To determine if this presentation was successful, we plan to summarize the session by having participants recall the key points discussed in

*Charts

*Compass and NavAid use

*Relevance of navigation to kayaking, etc.

    Book - "Sea Kayakers Navigation Primer. Ray Killen

    NAV-Aid - Intro. to the small craft nav-aid. Chuck Sutherland