Embark on Your Journey to Learn-to-Scull
Begin with "Sample Sculling" and see if our sport is for you. Then, if you're hooked, enroll in our "Learn-to-Scull" Program and acquire more of the basics. The program is offered in a small-group setting and is highly individualized. Enjoy the outdoors, more specifically the expansive waterways of the California Delta that are a regional treasure.
If you can't make our schedule, you are welcome to participate in private or semi-private sessions that you set up on your own schedule with one of our coaches.
If you can't make our schedule, you are welcome to participate in private or semi-private sessions that you set up on your own schedule with one of our coaches.
Step 1: Sample Sculling for Adults
"Sample Sculling" is designed to give newcomer adults an introduction to our sport. It has both land and water components. If you are brand new to sculling, you will first learn basic sculling technique using a land rowing machine (i.e. ergometer or "erg"). Then, have the opportunity to get into a wide, stable boat with an experienced "sculling buddy."
Spring 2023 Sample Sculling Dates:
Cost: $25 - suggested contribution, or any amount you can to support our various community activities is greatly welcome. If any contribution is a hardship, you are still most welcome to participate without giving.
How To Enroll: Please pre-register at least 3 days before the day of the session. Complete the registration form here.
All Sample Sculling sessions take place at DSC's boathouse, 4950 Buckley Cove Way in Stockton, California.
Spring 2023 Sample Sculling Dates:
- Saturday, April 15th (FULL!)
- Saturday, April 29th
Cost: $25 - suggested contribution, or any amount you can to support our various community activities is greatly welcome. If any contribution is a hardship, you are still most welcome to participate without giving.
How To Enroll: Please pre-register at least 3 days before the day of the session. Complete the registration form here.
All Sample Sculling sessions take place at DSC's boathouse, 4950 Buckley Cove Way in Stockton, California.
Step 2: Learn-to-Scull, Levels I & II
Learn-to-Scull can be accessed after a Sample Sculling session is completed. Learn-to-Scull is designed to bring beginning scullers from learning to scull in a two-person wide-bottomed boat with an expert buddy to being able to scull their own wide-bottomed boat. Eventually they will be able to scull their own narrower, recreational single.
Learn-to-Scull includes Level I and Level II. Each program level is broken up into 4-week segments. Purchase one 4-week package and receive 8 practices. Practices take place on Thursday evenings for land training (until evening light provides us an option) and Saturday mornings on the water (whenever conditions permit). The learning time on the water is very individualized so participants can progress at their own rate.
Learn-to-Scull includes Level I and Level II. Each program level is broken up into 4-week segments. Purchase one 4-week package and receive 8 practices. Practices take place on Thursday evenings for land training (until evening light provides us an option) and Saturday mornings on the water (whenever conditions permit). The learning time on the water is very individualized so participants can progress at their own rate.
- Level I is designed to help you take the first steps in learning to scull while helping you gain fitness. We strongly encourage you to complete one of our “Sample Sculling” sessions prior to signing up for LTS Level 1. You will participate one Thursday evening a week to become more adept at sculling technique on the indoor rowing machine (erg) and at using the erg as a fitness tool. On Saturday mornings you will join a group on the water to put what you are learning on land into practice on the water. You will begin in a double-boat with an expert buddy to help teach you and steer your boat. Then we will help you progress to a single-person, narrower recreational shell with pontoons.
- Level II continues where you left off in Level I. You will continue one evening a week to become more adept technically on the indoor rowing machine (erg) and at using it as a fitness tool. During water sessions we will help you progress from a single sculling boat with stabilizing pontoons to rowing the boat without pontoons. You’ll be rowing a recreational single independently (without any “training wheels”).
Learn-to-Scull Schedule:
Spring 2023 Dates:
Costs for Levels I and II: Fees are all-inclusive - no extra fees for renting equipment. All equipment is provided. Each 4-week package costs $190.00; however, we offer a SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE for Level I of $150 so you can get a good sense of whether this sport is for you before you fully commit.
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. Group size is limited to 4-6 participants.
**4-week packages can be repeated until individuals are ready to take an evaluation to “captain their own boat,” called the “Captain’s Evaluation”, or are deemed adequately safe in a recreational single without another sculler or safety launch alongside.
How To Enroll: Send an e-mail to Beverly Klunk at bklunk@deltasculling.org, or call Bev at (209) 607-7259.
- Purchase a 4-week package that contains 8 practices per package, two per week.
- Land Trainings (4): Thursday evenings from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. (Note: As weather conditions, light conditions and learning needs change, we will begin to spend some of this time on the water.)
- Water Trainings (4): Saturday mornings from 9:00 -11:00 AM.
- Learn-to-Scull starts after the completion of a Sample Sculling session.
Spring 2023 Dates:
- Dates for Level I: (loosely)
Thursdays, May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, (June 15 - make-up day if needed)
Saturdays, May 13, 27, June 3, 10, (June 17 - make-up day if needed) - Dates for Level II: (loosely)
Thursdays and Saturdays – June 22 & 24; June 29 & July 1; July 6 & 8; July 13 & 15 (July 20 & 22 - make-up days if needed)
Costs for Levels I and II: Fees are all-inclusive - no extra fees for renting equipment. All equipment is provided. Each 4-week package costs $190.00; however, we offer a SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE for Level I of $150 so you can get a good sense of whether this sport is for you before you fully commit.
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. Group size is limited to 4-6 participants.
**4-week packages can be repeated until individuals are ready to take an evaluation to “captain their own boat,” called the “Captain’s Evaluation”, or are deemed adequately safe in a recreational single without another sculler or safety launch alongside.
How To Enroll: Send an e-mail to Beverly Klunk at bklunk@deltasculling.org, or call Bev at (209) 607-7259.
Step 3: Learn-to-Scull, Level III
This program is the continuation of the Learn-to-Scull program levels I & II. Emphasis is on gaining proficiency and safety in recreational singles. Participants complete their "Captain's Evaluation" during this sequence, or are deemed adequately safe in a recreational single without another sculler or safety launch alongside, and generally tend to require less supervision on the water. You complete Level III when you successfully complete the Captain’s Evaluation.
Cost: Scullers purchase a pass which they can use on any of the scheduled days. A 6-session pass is $150.00 and a discounted 12 session pass is $225.00.
How To Enroll: Send an e-mail to Beverly Klunk at bklunk@deltasculling.org, or call Bev at (209) 607-7259.
Cost: Scullers purchase a pass which they can use on any of the scheduled days. A 6-session pass is $150.00 and a discounted 12 session pass is $225.00.
How To Enroll: Send an e-mail to Beverly Klunk at bklunk@deltasculling.org, or call Bev at (209) 607-7259.
Novice/Intermediate & Intermediate/Advanced Sculling
Once you’ve completed your “Captain’s Evaluation” and have demonstrated your safety and skill on the water, you may continue in our group practices which meet 3 to 5 times a week, depending on the season. You also are approved to rent DSC sculls and row with a partner on your own schedule and without coach supervision.
Cost: Monthly unlimited coached practices for as little as $50.00 per month with a $100 facility fee, due every 6 months. $90 for a 5-time boat rental pass or $150 for 10-time pass with the $100 facility fee due every 6 months.
All sculling lessons take place at DSC's boathouse, 4950 Buckley Cove Way in Stockton, California.
Cost: Monthly unlimited coached practices for as little as $50.00 per month with a $100 facility fee, due every 6 months. $90 for a 5-time boat rental pass or $150 for 10-time pass with the $100 facility fee due every 6 months.
All sculling lessons take place at DSC's boathouse, 4950 Buckley Cove Way in Stockton, California.