atlantic Sea kayak Camp

 

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North Atlantic Sea Kayak Camp - Norway​​

Do you ever dream about planning your own trips in Scandinavia and Norway? Do you need skills training in tidal areas and bigger swell? On this sea kayak course on the west coast of Norway you'll get both the technical skills as well as the the theoretically information to plan safe and well planned trips of your own.

During the 3 day camp on the island of Smøla south west of Trondheim we'll use the perfect estting for this training. The area offers both sheltered sea kayaking in the archipelago but also some more exposed area wiith big swell coming in from the atlantic.

On Smøla the tidal range is between 1,5- 3 meters and this affect the ocean and the waters we're paddling in. However there are no strong currents so it's the perfect area for those new to moving water and aiming to plan their own trips in Norway in the future.

The aim for this course is to give you an understanding of how you can plan your trips according to the tidal movements in the area to save energi, make you. aware of possible route choices and smooth arrival to campsites etc.

The camp is a great combination on technical skills development in dynamic waters, trip planning in tidal waters, risk assessment, and day trips to exotic places along the coast. Great food and good company are of course also a big. part of the camp.

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Coaches

Torbjörn Söderholm ISKGA Advanced guide/ BC 5 star leader. He's spent most of his edicational time in Wales and Cornwall. Torbjörn has been trained hard in incident management, leadership sa kayaing in exposed environments. He has also guided trips on the Shetland isles.

 

Tilda Nilsson guide and instructor since several years back. Tilda has spent a lot of time in the cockpit surfing waves in Lofoten and Denmark in her sea kayak. She's has great technical skills and coaching others is a great passion for her. 

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Base camp & food​

Our tent basecamp is on the island Smøla near Trondheim. We cooperate with Smøla Kajakk and we use their facilities such as toilets, shower, meeting room and beach. We can start kayaking right outside the tent door and the area offers both sheltered kayaking and open sea. The guides will prepare all food, breakfast, lunch and dinner so you don't need to think of that!

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Schedule (Might change a bit according to the weather)​

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Friday: Checking the basic skills, tidal tables and trip planning.

• Kl 08.00 Breakfast.

• Introduction of the course, the coaches and participants as we eat breakfast.

• 09.00 - 12.00 

• Warm up and technical skills working with the 5 most useful strokes. We'll make sure every body makes progress within their comfortzon. We'll get to know our kayaks and equipment as well as the nearby area.

• Lunch: 12.00 -13.00

• 13.00 -16.00 

• Safety and rescues. We'll practice body and selg rescues as well as the principles of towing. 

• Evening 18.00-20.00 Dinner and trip planning

• Learn to understand tidal tables and how if affects your trip planning. We also take a closer look at the different weather forecast we usually work with as we plan day two together.

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Saturday: Day tour with waves, light house and trip planning

• 08.00 breakfast

• 09.00

• According to the trip plan we made together yesterday we'll carry out the trip during the day. We'll visit an exposed light house, meet bigger swell and moving water as we move along. We'll look at the mental process and challenge it is to paddle in bigger waves and hopefully expand our comfort zon during the process.

• 19.00 Dinner & Safety planning. As we eat dinner we'lll provide you with great toosl to do a personal risk assessment and safety plan when you'll plan trips in the future. We'll also plan the coming day together as the day before.

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Sunday: Explore Norway

• 08.00. Breakfast

• 09.00- ca 17.00. Together we'll explore the area and carry out the trip we planned the day before. We'll practice navigation and check if our tidal planning was as expected together with great coaching on technical skills from the instructors.

• Kväll 19.00 Middag och avslut.

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Included:

• 3 day camp with a great mix of exploring the area as well as technical skills development in the conditions we'll meet.

• Hands on information and useful skills on how to understand tidal tables, calculate range and speed of the tide and put it into the great picture as we plan different day trips. We'll also look at risk assessment tools and safety planning as well as dealing with emergency situations in Norway.

• Food ( breakfast, lunch package and dinner)) Breakfast from day 1 until dinner day 3.

• Personal guiding and instruction from Torbjörn Söderholm and Tilda Nilsson.

• Possible to borrow tent and sleeping mattress Please add the package in the booking process

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​​Price pr person: 8.995,-SEK

Kayaks are not included but are available for rent 1500 SEK for 3 days)We use Norht Water kayaks

Drysuits are also available for rent. 1200 SEK for 3 days.

A 25% deposit is paid as you book and the additional amount will be invoiced 1 month prior to the course.

Please do not book any flight or tickets in advance before we tell you that the required amount of participants has been reached.

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Dates 2025:

26 - 28 September.

 

MIN number of participants:  5 (can be booked induvidually)

MAX number of participåants: 8 

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​Please do not book any tickets or hotelrooms that are non refundable before we have informed you that the min number of participants have been reached.

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