Company Spotlight: Advanced Elements — From Waterbeds to IKs

  Someone who invented a product that lets you sleep on water is also good at designing products that let you paddle on it. Such is the case with inflatable paddle craft company Advanced Elements, whose co-owner, Charlie Hall; after all, is the inventor of the waterbeds. Advanced Elements was founded in San Francisco in […]

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Award-winning PEAK UK Ocean Wrap PFD now in stock at Sea Kayak Oban

Introducing the award-winning, patent-pending PEAK UKWrap PFD range: winner of Product of the Year at Paddle Expo 2018 and one of our most eagerly awaited products of recent years. The Ocean Wrap has a large, twin entry front pocket with internal radio and camera compartments which combines with the flare and knife pockets to give […]

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‘First of its kind’ tour boat will change kayaking at Pictured Rocks

The first-ever kayak launching vessel, designed to take 72 passengers and 36 kayaks around the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, is in production and set to launch later this year, said its manufacturer, Moran Iron Works Inc. Imagine launching a kayak from a specialized tour boat rather than from shore to take in one of the […]

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Love hiking? You should really try rainy season kayaking, and here’s why

By all accounts, hiking is Oregon’s most popular type of outdoor recreation. Crowds on the trails have exploded in the past decade, and multiple surveys and studies conclude hiking and walking in natural spaces is Oregon’s top pastime. And that’s great. It’s good that people are getting outdoors more often, in search of the fresh […]

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BOOM TIMES: Kayak Fishing Tournaments Follow Wave of Historic Growth in Pro Bass Fishing

Opportunities for fortune and fish abound as prize purses and events only expand in 2019 with the addition of Hobie’s seven-event Hobie Bass Open running in parallel with the sport’s other marquee tournament events in Kayak Bass Fishing, the River Bassin’ Tournament Trail and Louisiana’s Ride the Bull. While it’s boom time for anglers — the Bass Anglers […]

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Scott Shipley Still Making Waves:New Whitewater Park in Eagle, Colorado.

What do you do after winning three overall World Cup kayak slalom championships, three World Championship silver medals, and competing in three Olympics? If you’re Scott Shipley, you keep making waves. Shipley’s doing that aplenty these days, leaving his mark by turning destination towns throughout the country, and the world, into bonafide paddling venues as founder […]

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Nile River Festival 2019 – Report and Results

The Nile River Festival is Africa’s most impressive whitewater event and the 2019 version has just come to a close. 2019 marked a year of change for the NRF as this was the first festival post-Isimba Dam. New events included a raft competition (best flips, coolest lines, most epic carnage!), multiple freestyle kayaking events, and […]

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