Hull Yeah! Kayaks Through Time
Wide, stable boats perfect for calm lakes and beginners.
What is a recreational kayak?
U.S. Coast Guard–approved item every paddler must wear at all times.
What is a PFD (personal flotation device)?
Basic propulsion stroke that ends when your lower hand reaches your hip.
What is the forward stroke?
When your buddy capsizes, this comes first—not the gear.
What is the paddler’s safety (or “the person”)?
Requirement 1 for Kayaking BSA is passing this
What is BSA Swimmer Test?
Long, narrow design that tracks across bays and hauls camping gear.
What is a touring (sea) kayak?
Two-word principle that means Scouts never paddle alone.
What is the buddy system?
Wide half-circle stroke used to turn the kayak away from the paddling side.
What is the (forward) sweep stroke?
Forming a “T” with the victim’s kayak to empty water is called this rescue.
What is a T-rescue?
Requirement 2b asks you to name these about your personal boat.
What are the parts of the kayak?
Early Inuit hunters stretched these animal skins over frames to build kayaks.
What are seal skins?
Document that lists route, times, and contacts before every trip.
What is a float plan?
Stroke that moves the kayak sideways toward the paddle.
What is the draw stroke?
After a solo capsize: stay calm, wet-exit, then do this with your kayak to shore.
What is swim/tow the boat to shore? Or What is get back on?
Requirement 3b has Scouts demonstrate how to select and properly fit this.
What is a PFD?
Design that replaces the enclosed cockpit with an open, self-bailing deck.
What is a sit-on-top kayak?
Safety Afloat requires at least this many adult supervisors for any group.
What is two?
Holding the blade vertical at the stern lets you steer with this stroke.
What is the rudder stroke?
In cold-water emergencies, you should tow the paddler to shore immediately instead of chasing gear because of risk from________.
What is hypothermia?
Requirement 5h challenges you to perform this stopping stroke.
What is the back stroke?
Ultra-short boats (≈6 ft) made for acrobatic moves in heavy whitewater.
What are play boats, squirt boats, white water?
Three whistle blasts mean this on the water.
What is “Emergency—help needed!”
Reverse of the forward stroke—used to stop or back up the kayak.
What is the back stroke?
Solo recovery that uses an inflatable device on the paddle as an outrigger.
What is a paddle-float re-entry?
Requirement 6c requires pivoting the kayak this many degrees each way.
What is 360 degrees?