SEA KAYAKING

Monomoy Island off Chatham, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) is a worthwhile destination for any New England sea kayaking or kayak fishing enthusiast who has strong kayak navigation skills, savvy in fog and quality saltwater fishing gear.

What's most handy about Google Earth for sea kayaking and kayak fishing is that you can save maps as emailable files or as clickable files on message boards, or as jpgs.

If simple fatigue indicates you aren't using torso rotation and that your aren't paddling from the core, here are some on water drills designed to add torso rotation to your sea kayaking paddle stroke.

Greece is a popular sea kayaking vacation destination. With good reason. The island chains are intricate and unspoiled.

Sea kayaking enthusiasts looking to save money on their kayak paddles and interested in learning how to roll a sea kayak with less strain on their joints do well to carve a Greenland paddle.

Known as much for its rugged scenic beauty as its fast tidal streams, the Mawr is well-suited for the high level sea kayaker looking for new challenges.

In most right-of-way situations, we are by law least burdened. It's easy, however, to be dead right. While a sea kayaker often has the highest level of right-of-way, you shouldn't assert. It's best policy yield to a powerboat.

Here are pointers, hints, gear considerations and VHF radio recommendations for kayaking at night, whether by intention or because you happen to make a mistake in your trip planning and find yourself out after dark

Overview of a facility offering sea kayaking lessons, tours and a store for all your kayaking needs.

Remarkably many sea kayakers, especially those for whom sea kayaking marks their first exposure to the marine environment, don't know how to read charts.

You can easily waterproof high quality kayak fishing and sea kayaking charts with two home-grown methods.

It's the very static nature of sea kayaking's seated position --- three or four or even five hours in the cockpit --- that extract as much of a toll on the lower body as any transcontinental business trip

A NOOA chart overview of the waters of Ipswich Bay including Crane Beach, Plum Island, and Plum Island Sound off Massachusetts reveals much about this fine rough water sea kayaking and surfcasting area.

For anyone interested in sea kayaking or kayak fishing, finding north can do a lot to keep you on course and aware of where you are.

For the adventure vacation of a lifetime, learn sea kayaking in the calm blue-green waters of Washington's San Juan Islands. Begin your adventure on Fidalgo Island, located at the north end of Puget Sound.

They key is access and, if you're kayak fishing or fishing from a sea kayak, where to concentrate your efforts.

Home to the internationally recognized Blackburn Challenge, a 21-mile rowing and kayaking race, Cape Ann is worth a visit by anyone interested in kayak fishing, sea kayaking, surfing and general onwater fun and relaxation.

As when practicing any type of sea kayaking and ocean kayaking rescues, the key is to be careful when lifting the bow of capsized sea kayak or ocean kayak to drain the cockpit.

To triangulate your position when backpacking, hiking, sea kayaking, ocean kayaking or kayak fishing, use a handbearing compass, the kind with a mirror.

One of the surprises of a sea kayaking vacation to tropical or distant waters is now that you're far from home, your database of timetables and paddling distances doesn't apply to where you are.

The surge in the popularity of sea kayaking has seen plenty of paddlers heading out to the water in all manner of pungoes and full-blown ocean-going plastic, fiberglass, and wooden kayaks.

Thachers Island is a good a place as any to try kayaking for the first time. A wildlife preserve, the island has keepers and a 135-tall lighthouse you can climb.

Cape Ann and Cod Cod, Massachusetts offer to the sea kayaker two distinct and separate sea kayaking environments: rocky vs. sandy, slow tides vs. powerful and fast-moving.

With a long and irregular coastline that includes Cape Cod, the North Shore and the South Shore there is plenty of sea kayaking to be had in Massachusetts. These locations are among the best for their sheer beauty and the wildlife that abounds.

Learn about Milford Sound, sea kayaking and how to plan a sea kayaking adventure.

Sea kayaking is the perfect mode of transportation to explore the beautiful waters of Alaska.

Sea kayaking is becoming more and more popular and may even be replacing hiking for many people while creating new horizons for nature lovers, canoeists and active travelers.