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Kingston Kayak Festival this Saturday

by Frances Marion Platt
April 18, 2017
in Community, Family, Nature
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Photo by Dion Ogust

If you’re wondering if a Greenland Qajaq Roll is a kind of sushi using Atlantic salmon, guess again. It’s actually an uprighting technique that could save you from drowning, if you’re kayaking in rough water and capsize your craft. You can learn it from an expert this Saturday, along with lots of other useful information for recreational boaters, at the annual Kingston Kayak Festival, sponsored by Kenco and the Forsyth Nature Center and held at Kingston Point Beach.

The Festival isn’t just for experienced paddlers, although there will be some relatively advanced workshops like “How to Repair a Composite Canoe or Kayak” as well as the Greenland Qajaq Roll Clinic. Newbies and the merely kayak-curious are also invited; there will be half-hour “Kayaking 101” sessions for the novice at 12:30, 1:45 and 2:45 p.m. The Forsyth Nature Center’s Steve Noble will lead guided Kingston Point Kayak Tours setting out at 11 a.m., 1, 2:15 and 3:15 p.m.; you can bring your own boat or borrow one on-site to join the flotilla. Among its many other attractions, Kingston Point is a prime place to spot bald eagles fishing for their lunch.

As usual, many of the workshops offer guidance on how to decide what type and model of kayak, top rated kayak reviews they offer are detailed and concise, if you’re in the market – not to mention crucial accessories like paddles and Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs). New this year are several workshops on paddleboarding: “Learn to Paddleboard” and “How to Pick a Stand-Up Paddleboard.” These will be taught by representatives from Hudson Valley Stand-Up Paddleboards and Bic Stand-Up Paddleboards.

Also on hand will be factory reps from car rack, PFD and water shoe manufacturers, as well as a long list of kayak and canoe companies including Dagger, Delta, Emotion, Hurricane, Mad River, Native Watercraft, Nucanoe, Perception, Swift and Wilderness Systems. You can buy gear at the Festival (“great deals” are promised), or just try out a demo of the latest model. You can learn a lot about proper fit just by sitting in the cockpits of different kayaks while they’re resting on land, but there will be crafts available that you can paddle around the beach area as well.

While you’re at the Festival poking around the various enticing equipment displays, make sure that you take a moment to sign the “Wear it New York Pledge,” making a voluntary commitment to wear a regulation PFD whenever you’re out for a paddle – which is something that you’d be wise to do anyway: Conditions on the water can change very fast. When you sign up, you’ll receive a free tee-shirt from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and be entered in a drawing to win a free PFD.

The Kingston Kayak Festival runs from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 9, rain or shine. Your price of admission is a $10 donation benefiting the great environmental education programs of the Forsyth Nature Center. Children age 10 and under get in free, but must be supervised by an adult at all times. Advance tickets can be purchased until June 6 at Kenco, located on Route 28 just west of Kingston, online at www.forsythnaturecenter.org/calendar.html?task=view_event&event_id=263 or at Kingston Point Beach on the day of the event. The entrance to Kingston Point Park is located on Lower Delaware Avenue in East Kingston. For the full schedule, visit www.kingstonkayakfestival.info.

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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