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Written by David H. Johnston
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
Pesda
Press recently released the 2nd edition of their popular
book, Sea Kayak Navigation by Franco Ferrero.
The new
edition is a completely updated layout including several chapter
rewrites and updates to help explain the tougher concepts even better
than before. A clearly written and very practical manual, this is a
great book for anybody who is interested in learning more about sea
navigation.
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Written by David H. Johnston
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
 Visit your
local the book section at your local outdoor store and you will find a boatload
of books on sea kayaking skills. Generally speaking they are written towards
the novice paddler and cover a wide range of skills from packing your boat to how
to keep your boat going straight. Sea Kayak Strokes is very, very different.
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Written by David H. Johnston
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Tuesday, 26 December 2006 |
 In 2006 the British Canoe Union released an addition to its very popular Canoe and Kayak Handbook. The new Coaching Handbook is an ocean of useful information and practical tips for coaches and instructors whether you are involved with canoe, white water, sprint slalom, or sea kayaking.
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Written by Andrew Elizaga
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Sunday, 26 November 2006 |
 One of my favorite kayaking books, and one of the books I highly recommend to any sea kayaker, is Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons, by Matt Broze and George Gronseth. It's a compilation of incident reports published in Sea Kayaker
magazine, harrowing stories of death and near death by blunt force
injury, drowning, and hypothermia, especially interesting for me
because so many of the cases occurred right here in the Pacific
Northwest. Thumbing through it now I realize that a lot of what I
first learned about sea kayaking safety probably came from that book.
Nothing teaches a lesson like a gripping story of a trip gone horribly
wrong. I’d like to see more of these incident report compilations.
Isn’t anyone out there ready to write Deep Trouble 2?
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Written by David H. Johnston
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Sunday, 26 November 2006 |
 Ask 10 paddlers which skill they would say is the most difficult to master and the vast majority of the group would say learning how to roll ranks up there at the top of the pile. The same is true for teaching somebody else how to roll. It is more difficult compared to say, teaching how the low brace.
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