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Wilderness Systems Tarpon 160 – Big-water Fishing Kayaks
10.24.2011
The Tarpon name is a proud one reaching back to the early days of the modern kayak fishing movement.
Through the Rain and the Night
10.24.2011
With water flowing fast and pushing flood levels all summer, Missouri American Water MR 340 organizer Scott Mansker was doubtful that this year’s 340-mile heartland odyssey from Kansas City to St. Louis could even happen.
Kayaker Captures Amazing Blue Whale Footage, Above and Below Surface
10.19.2011
Majestic blue whales have been feeding off Southern California for months, luring marine mammal paparazzi of all types, including TV news crews, onto whale-watching boats. But some of the most amazing footage was captured off Redondo Beach recently by kayaker Rick Coleman, who was using his helmet camera.
Countdown for Condit: T-minus two weeks
10.11.2011
The excitement of restoring Washington’s free-flowing White Salmon River is reaching fever pitch. On October 26, a hole will be blasted in the base of the 95-year-old, 125-foot Condit Dam, and Northwestern Reservoir will drain in a matter of hours. The explosion will mark the beginning of a regionally and nationally significant river restoration effort.
Unsalted
10.06.2011
It’s not too often that kayaker Keith Wikle is disappointed when gale force winds blow through the Great Lakes. Last weekend, when 40-knot northerlies lashed the southern shores of the Third Coast with two-story breakers, Wikle rejoiced in surfing 14-footers on Lake Michigan outside his home in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Lining Up for the Finals at Surf Kayaking Worlds
10.06.2011
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Wednesday’s competition at the World Championships of Surf Kayaking started off with challenges. The wind was up and the surf choppy and punishing. During the morning semifinals in men’s long boat competitors were repeatedly tossed and tumbled by the break.
Where in the World is Aleksander Doba?
10.05.2011
Jozef Milewski was nervous when he and a group of sea kayakers launched into the rough waters of Lake Michigan on a stormy day in September. A cold 20-knot wind was pushing a six- to eight-foot swell, with dark clouds scudding over the skyline of Chicago. The dignitary amongst the group who assembled for the day outing was its wild card: Aleksander Doba…
On the Warpath
10.04.2011
One hundred fifty years ago this month, our young nation was beginning its darkest hour—a four-year Civil War that would claim nearly 700,000 lives. Today, a century and a half later, that agony lingers deep in our collective consciousness. And one of the best and most peaceful ways to visit these battlefield sites is by paddling the bodies of water that have defined them through the years.
Big Finish: Boomer Details the Ellesmere Adventure
09.22.2011
Discounting Alert (pop. 5) and Eureka (pop. 0), Ellesmere Island in the high Canadian Arctic has one settlement that might be called a community, and that’s Grise Fiord (pop. 141), according to 2006 census figures. Located on one of Ellesmere’s southerly tips, Grise Fiord is home to at least one nurse.
Inside New York’s 9/11 90-miler
09.14.2011
Some took more than 20 hours to finish. But at Sunday’s 90-mile Adirondack Canoe Classic, a decades-old, northern New York event that featured an international cast of paddlers and even some rowers, grade-schoolers and grandparents alike, it was a seven-paddler voyageur canoe team that toyed with course history. The Richard Reynolds Express-Forge Racing team rode sun-drenched (and still hurricane-flooded) rivers, swamps and lakes to a winning finish in the notorious “90-miler,” in 3 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes.
26th annual Canoe & Kayak Industry Awards Announced
09.13.2011
The mood was electric and the music acoustic at the 2011 Paddlesports Industry Party in Salt Lake City on Aug. 5. Athletes, legends and industry employees flooded the venue for free food, beer, networking and the 26th annual Canoe & Kayak Industry Awards.
Coming Soon: ‘Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown: Volume 2′
09.12.2011
Scottish sea kayaking outfitter and coach Gordon Brown’s first DVD filled one void in instructional paddling videos and created another.
Tunnel Vision
09.02.2011
Something bad happened to North American tent design shortly after the first freestanding dome tents became popular in the 1980s. With the exception of those who clung to tired yet trusty A-frames, the camping masses shunned non-freestanding tents as being old and dated.
Ask Eddy
08.29.2011
Ed’s note: In the interest of, you know, facilitating dialogue, we’ve decided to start rolling out one of the magazine’s longtime recurring features, “Ask Eddy,” here on the website; below the latest, from the August 2011 issue. We invite readers to submit future questions for Eddy’s consideration here, at our Facebook page or by regular ol’ email: AskEddy@canoekayak.com.)
The 54-Hour Finish
08.25.2011
After battling near-constant headwinds and 20-foot seas on Ireland’s west coast, sea kayakers Jeff Allen and Harry Whelan thought the island’s sheltered east coast would be the easiest part of their attempt to set a new speed record for kayaking around Ireland. At a pub in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland, Allen, 49, and Whelan, 42, challenged themselves to knock off the last 225 miles in three days.
‘Sea Kayak Rescues’ DVD Coming Soon
08.23.2011
World-class sea kayak instructors Shawna Franklin and Leon Somme team up with award-winning filmmaker Bryan Smith—Kokatat athletes, all three—in Sea Kayak Rescues, a comprehensive modern guide to rescues for all paddlers.
Krisztina Zur Snags Silver
08.19.2011
Krisztina Zur (Newport Beach, Calif.) won a silver medal Friday in the Women’s K-1, 1000-meter race at the 2011 ICF Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. The Hungarian-American finished in 4 minutes, 13.47 seconds, 2.08 second behind the first place finisher, Tamara Csipes of Hungary. Zur, who won four 2011 World Cup Series medals, led through the first two splits in the non-Olympic event.
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