Sea kayak

Table of Contents hide Most Important Skills for Sea Kayaking 1 Learn how to make a bilge pump 2 Stay visible on the water 3 Scout ocean surf in your kayak 4 Construct a tow line 5 Try the sea kayak scramble self-rescue 6 Understand marine VHF radio use 7 Re-enter and roll your kayak In recent years, adventurous paddlers and expeditioners have shown that you can go just about anywhere there’s water in a sea kayak. From Antarctica to the Grand Canyon and beyond, with the right training and…

The Chesapeake touring kayaks are icons in the sea kayaking world. Built in the thousands in dozens of countries around the world, the Chesapeakes are solid-tracking, comfortable kayaks that are easy to build but good-looking and delightfully fast.

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Some of the most beautiful kayaks I have ever seen out on the water were handmade. I’m sure they took many hours of laborious work, but man were they head-turners. If you are a skilled

Ocean kayaking is vastly different from the lakes or rivers I’m used to, but kayaking in the Azores is one activity I couldn't pass up.

But when paddling across the wind, the beam wind exerts a sideways, lateral force along the entire length of one side of the boat. Because the larger high-pressure zone surrounding the bow serves to resist this lateral force, and the smaller high-pressure zone around the stern offers less resistance, the overall effect is that the beam wind is able to push the stern further off course than the bow. When waves driven by a beam wind strike the side of your moving kayak, they too encounter the…

It took me months of cold, scary failure to learn how to roll my boat in the open ocean. The effort taught me that barriers to outdoor proficiency, no matter how daunting, can be overcome if you don’t give up.

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