2009 Journey Protocol

CANOE LANDING PROTOCOL – MONDAY, AUG. 3 AT 1PM

 

• BEFORE 12 Noon, All canoes will gather at soft landing – Doe-kag-wats Beach (Jeff Head) for instructions on Official landing in Suquamish.

 

• Canoe Families may load canoes onto trailers next day and thru the week before 10 AM.

 

• Food, water and comfort stations provided at soft landing. Skippers are in charge of own crew care.  

 

• At 1 PM Canoes will enter official landing, rafted up in groups as defined by routes traveled.

 

• Each canoe will give a BRIEF intro.

 

• Only after every canoe completes protocol will canoes come ashore.

 

• Volunteers from Naval base will help carry canoes up.

 

• Only Support Boats will tie to Suquamish Dock. No canoe. Larger canoes can pull over to Old Man House Park.

 

• Canoes will sit in front of the sGeDadad qwA ?altx House of Awakened Culture in Downtown Suquamish.