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Up-River Sea Kayak Clinic in Redding

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

The Captain

Come join Ben Lawry and Garth Schmeck for a dynamic educational clinic on the Sacramento River. (more…)

Bow Control

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Where the heck is the nose of your kayak? Are you looking at it or are you feeling it? These are questions I constantly ask my sea kayaking students when paddling in strong currents or crossing eddylines. (more…)

Rethinking Rescue Stirrups

Monday, March 12th, 2007
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I recently followed a lengthy debate on a popular paddling forum regarding the pros and cons of rescue stirrups (aka rescue slings).    A rescue sling is a device used to help a swimmer who can’t seem to pull themselves up onto their boat during a rescue.     Although I’d definitely consider a stirrup to be  a last resort, there are times as a guide that a stirrup has proven a quick and effective way of getting a cold and tired paddler back in their boat.

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Nerdy Guys paddle too.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Sea Kayak River Clinic
This funny clip above is from our monthly “Sea Kayak Intro River Clinics”. Instead of driving three hours to teach new paddlers how to paddle in rip tides & tidal flows, we take them to the river and do a “simulated” intro tidal flow clinic. It works real good and develops great confidence before they perform their first ferry in the ocean.

Enjoy nerds in action!
Captain Penguin

Sea Kayak Camp 2007

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Sea Kayak Camp 2007

Team P&H surfing!

Team Surf

Sea Kayak Camp was a stunning success this year! Our little wave machine was working well. John Carmody and I (Ben) ran three weeks of intensive kayak instruction on Hunting Island, S.C. this January. (more…)

Arma-Coatings protection

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Arma Coatings keel strip
This is not what you may think it is. This is the best way we have found to protect our kayaks, Arma Coatings spray-in bedliner. (more…)

Testing Drysuits

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Kokatat

Are drysuits really worth the money? If you saw the amount of work that goes into research, development, construction and testing… on that alone, your answer would be yes!
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Single Bladin’

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Single Bladin’

Here’s a couple pics that I took this December while doing a shoot for an upcoming Sea Kayaker article. (more…)


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