Palmer Fest now offering a Sea Kayak element to weekend
Typically the Palmer Fest has been all about white water playboating. With the increased interest in sea kayaking over the past years, the festival has tacked on an additional weekend for Sea Kayaking and Canoeing.
Online registration for Palmer Fest, Canada’s Premier Canoe and Kayak Festival, is now open for both the new Sea Kayak and Canoe Weekend, May 8-10 and the classic Whitewater Weekend, May 15-17. Both weekends offer the very best beginner to advanced canoe and kayak clinics, on-water canoe and kayak demos, camping, music and the Reel Paddling Film Festival. Register online or download forms at www.palmerfest.com.
The eight annual Palmer Fest is a laid-back social, instructional and fun two-weekend event kicking off with the National Sea Kayak Symposium (NaSKS) and CANOE 09 – The Canadian Canoe Symposium on May 8-10, followed by the classic Whitewater Weekend including the Single Blade Symposium 6 on Victoria Day Weekend. Both weekends offer a wide variety of beginner to advanced women’s-only paddling clinics.
Palmer Fest is held at the Paddler Co-op boathouse and campground on the Madawaska River in beautiful Palmer Rapids Canada’s most beginner-friendly class I-III section of whitewater. The Madawaska River also offers plenty of protected lakewater paddling opportunities for introductory sea kayaking and lakewater and classic solo canoe clinics. Plus we can offer intermediate and advanced sea kayak skills clinics using the deep river features as ocean features, such as surfing, tides, currents and paddling in boils.
Arrive and camp on the Friday nights. Saturdays and Sundays will be the canoe and kayak demos and on-water clinics—two per day. The clinics run from 10am to 12pm and then again from 2pm to 4pm. You select all your clinics in advance when you register.
We are very proud that Palmer Fest is a family friendly event. In addition to our kids paddling clinics (age 7 and up) we provide daycare so that parents can escape to the water for the action.
Rapid Media has been the leader in paddlesports media and events since 1999. Rapid Media publishes Kayak Angler, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots, Family Camping, and Rapid magazines, and produces the international Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour. For more information, visit www.rapidmedia.com
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