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Valley Avocet LV
11.10.2008
BIG PERFORMANCE, SMALL PACKAGE Valley Avocet LV $3,799 (Ultra Kevlar lay-up) valleyseakayaks.com L: 15 ft 11 in W: 20.5 in D: 11.5 in 45 lbs Made in: Nottingham, England Smaller paddlers have long craved a real “LV” (low-volume) sea kayak. This boat was the clear favorite of Kate and Danielle, and not just because it [...]
Adidas Sickline 2008
11.10.2008
Click here for the Video The World’s best whitewater kayakers met in early October 08′ in Austria’s tztal for a special kind of challenge: Adidas Sickline – the extreme Kayak World Championship. – In a tight and thrilling final on the legendary Wellerbrcke course German kayaker Thilo Niklas Schmitt won gold in Austria’s beautiful tztal. [...]
Green River Race Results
11.06.2008
Click here for the Video Name Time Place Pat Keller 4:31 1 Chris Gragtmans 4:35 2 Eric Deguil 4:42 3 Isaac Levinson 4:43 4 Andrew Holcombe 4:49 5 Toby MacDermott 4:54 6 John Grace 4:54 6 Drew Duval 4:54 6 Pablo McCandless 4:55 9 Geoff Calhoun 4:56 10 Nathan Silsbee 4:56 10 Fergus Coffey 4:56 [...]
Registration opens for 2009 Yukon River Quest
11.04.2008
Registrations are now being accepted for the 11th annual Yukon River Quest, the longest annual canoe and kayak race in the world, which will be held June 24-June 28, 2009. The 740-kilometer (460-mile) wilderness adventure paddling marathon is held on the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory. New online entry [...]
Class III in southern Chile
11.04.2008
Story by Kate Stepan “Just show up around noon,” shrugs English-born Ben May, owner of the Kayak Chile paddle shop on the main street of Pucon, an adventure-touristy town in southern Chile known mostly for the 2,847-meter volcano Villarrica looming a few kilometers to the south. “We’ll get you on the river.” Though we’re here [...]
Falklands 2009 Sea Kayak Expedition
10.31.2008
In January and February of 2009, New York City based kayaker Marcus Demuth will attempt to circumnavigate all 776 Falkland Islands by sea kayak, a journey of over 850 Miles. The goal of the expedition is to be the first kayaker to successfully circumnavigate the 776 Falkland Islands and to document and study the marine [...]
Antarctic Kayak Expedition
10.30.2008
Exploring Effects of Global Warming on the Antarctic Coast In December 2008, Cristian Donoso, Juan Pablo Ortega and Roger Rovira will travel to the Antarctic Peninsula to make a 550-mile self-supported kayak journey to the Palmer Archipelago and the Danco Coast to study wildlife density and explore the effects of global warming on the Antarctic [...]
Anthony Yap Says Adios to Bliss-Stick
10.30.2008
Anthony Yap has been going big in Bliss-Stick kayaks for a decade. This week, the Australian native bid adieu to the New Zealand company in the following press release: “After 10 year’s of paddling in Bliss-Stick boats, I’m sad to say that next year I will be moving on. I just wanted to take this [...]
Boater shot: Good aim, poor impulse control
10.28.2008
Story By Bart Pfankuch PARRISH ‹ A boater whose engine wake turned over a canoe on the Manatee River Sunday afternoon was shot in the buttocks after one of the canoeists fired a gun in retaliation for being swamped, authorities said. The incident happened around 5:15 p.m. Sunday near the Fort Hamer boat landing on [...]
The Range Life Discovers New Steep Creek, BC
10.27.2008
Story and Photos by: The Range Life They first discovered the canyon on an aerial scout of the Upper Squamish back in 2005, but it took 7 different scouting missions to determine if the run was navigable. In 2007 they put on the creek and discovered a incredible series of waterfalls that lead into a [...]
Mayor’s Cup Race Day
10.24.2008
Words and Photos by: Jessie Stone October 19th in New York City is from here on out the Official Mayor’s Cup Day thanks to Mayor Bloomberg. This year the Able/Disable class was added and 5 teams entered. In the past, we had done the Able/Disable marathon as an independent race, but it was very exciting [...]
Kayaking to Save the Albatross
10.22.2008
Story by: Lisa Beckstead of Kokatat.com In January 2009 Hayley Shephard, a kiwi now residing on the West Coast of Canada, will attempting the very first solo sea kayak circumnavigation of South Georgia Island in efforts to help save the Albatross. Behind the scenes of soaring Albatross is the insidiously slow, almost invisible loss of [...]
Women on the Adirondack Ponds
10.17.2008
Adirondack N.Y.- a canoe adventure to embrace a pocket of paradise.
OMG!! Boater Tops Cosmo Hotlist!
10.16.2008
Kayaker Brad Ludden has just been named Cosmopolitan magazine’s world’s sexiest bachelor. Yeah, that Brad Ludden—the one who used to be famous just for running the planet’s gnarliest gnar and founding one of the paddling world’s worthiest charities. Now slutty women the world over will know his story too: Professional paddler. Chiseled abs and smoldering [...]
Extrasport X-posed Hoodie
10.14.2008
Extrasport X-posed Hoodie, $225 Can one jacket possibly take the place of a separate raincoat and spray top in your gear bag? This Extrasport X-Posed Hoodie might be the one that does it all—our tester wore it kayak touring during a rain-soaked week in Alaska and even skiing in the Andes. The waterproof, breathable 2.5-layer [...]
Slalom World Series a Home Run
10.10.2008
Last weekend, western Maryland wrapped up the international slalom racing season with the final event of the “Canoe Slalom World Series” at Adventure Sports International, the world’s only mountaintop artificial whitewater slalom course The World Series is a new five-race whitewater slalom series with the goal of expanding the number of high-quality international races beyond [...]
Kokatat Meridian GMER Model Drysuit
10.09.2008
On of the biggest sources of boater jealousy at any put-in, be it river or ocean, is the drysuit. If you have one, you’re a pimp. If you don’t, you’ve got pimp envy. I put the Kokatat Meridian GMER Drysuit through the paces during a long Washington winter and spring, boating class V snowmelt. While [...]
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