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SK Newsletter – August 5, 2008 No. 18
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Q&A
Spray Skirts – Part 2
Spray skirts have an important job to do: They have to keep the water out of the cockpit and do that without making it difficult for you to get out of the cockpit. There are a number of important choices you need to make to ensure the spray skirt you get for your kayak is appropriate for your abilities and for the conditions you'll be paddling in.
How should a kayaker decide between a bungee cord perimeter and a rubber rand?
What do you think about having pockets either on the tunnel or on the spray deck? Are they useful, impractical or hazardous?
Click here to read more.
If you would like to read the previous articles with questions to manufacturers of PFDs, kayaks, paddles and immersion wear click here.
From the Advertising Department
Fit to a T By Paul Riek
Advertising and Promotions Manager
With each issue of the SK Newsletter, I like to direct our readers to various advertisers that have caught my attention, but sometimes I just vent on an issue that has been on my mind. What’s been on my mind lately is something I never thought I’d be writing about, the Sea Kayaker T-Shirt.
Click here to read more.
Sea Kayaker Store and More
SALE! Save 15% SALE!
Learn more about Greenland style kayaks.
The following books are on sale:
- Eastern Arctic Kayaks by John D. Heath and E.Y. Arima (paperback), was $24.95, on sale for $21.21.
- Kayaks of Greenland by Harvey Golden, was $69.00, on sale for $58.65
Don’t delay, this sale ends August 31, 2008!
Click here to order.
Sea Kayaker August 2008 issue
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A taste of what you’ll find inside this issue:
Safety: A Series of Capsizes
Health: Rotator Cuff Injury:
Prevention and Recovery, See the video!
Kayak Reviews:
Suka by Current Designs (TECH SPECS PDF)
Infiniti 175 TX by Seaward Kayaks (TECH SPECS PDF)
Feature: Superior Solitude: Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area
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Readers Choice Prize Winners!
Thanks to all who took the time to weigh in on Sea Kayaker magazine’s Readers Choice Survey. While the winning products will be announced in the Sea Kayaker December ’08 issue, (you won’t want to miss it!) we didn’t want to wait to let you know who the prize winners are.
NRS Boaters Bucks
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One year subscription to
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$500 H. Skwer of Lynnwood, WA
$250 T. Friedmar of Seattle, WA
$100 M. Hanzlik of Ketchikan, AK |
T. Duncan of Greenville, NC
J. Borenstein of Scarsdale, NY
K. Greene of S Harwich, MA
R. Rubingh of San Carlos, CA
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25th Anniversary: West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium
Sea Kayaker magazine will be at the West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium
September 19-21
Fort Warden State Park, Port Townsend, WA
Please stop by our booth and say hello. You can pick up a free copy of Sea Kayaker magazine and enter your name for a chance to win a free one year subscription.
Tips for Better Kayaking
Food Storage: When ashore, cover your kayak with a tarp or Mylar survival blanket. Vegetables stored in the bottom of the kayak keep cool while paddling, but on shore the temperature will rise. A reflective cover over the kayak will keep your carrots from going limp.
-From Sea Kayaker's Savvy Paddler by Doug Alderson, Ragged Mountain Press, 2001.
Used with permission
Kayaking History
August 1, 1928: Captain Franz Romer arrives in the Virgin Islands, having crossed the Atlantic from Portugal via the Canary Islands. He is lost at sea a month later crossing from Puerto Rico toward Florida.
August 7, 1895: Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen leave the ice-bound "Fram" (at 84 degrees north latitude) with dog sledges and bamboo-and-canvas kayaks.
August 20, 1932: Gino Watkins' kayak found. Watkins, leader of a British survey expedition to Greenland, had drowned.
August 26, 1987: Ed Gillet makes landfall on Maui Beach, HI, after 63 days at sea.
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