AY Honor Canoeing

Canoeing

Skill Level

2

Year

1945

Version

22.12.2024

Approval authority

General Conference

Overview

The Challenging Part

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

7. With clothes on:

a. Capsize a canoe in deep water.

b. Right canoe and stow paddles and kneeling pad.

c. Get in canoe filled with water and paddle with hands or paddle for 25 yards (22.9 meters).

d. Disrobe, stow clothes and paddle, go overboard, hold on to bow of canoe with one hand, swim and tow swamped canoe to shore.

e. Empty canoe properly and land it (candidate must be accompanied by a lifeguard in an equipped lifeboat).