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SK Newsletter – September 2, 2008 No. 19
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From the Advertising Department
The Pleasure of Doing Business With Sea Kayakers
By Paul Riek
Advertising and Promotions Manager
Prior to accepting my position here at Sea Kayaker magazine, I’d been doing event marketing and promotions in the snow sports industry for quite a few years. While there were many benefits to working in that industry, I found that I did not miss them after accepting my role here.
The vast majority of people that I have come in contact with in the kayaking community have obviously followed their passion for and have chosen a simpler and more fulfilling quality of life. As a group, they are the most loyal, trustworthy and honest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing business with. They are grounded and have their priorities in order; it shows in every aspect of their lives.
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Q&A
Spray Skirts – Part 3
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.
Hand pumps are very commonly carried by sea kayakers. Since using a hand pump to get the water out often depends upon the spray deck keeping more water from getting in, spray decks become part of a rescue scenario. How do you see spray skirts functioning in a rescue?
Are there alterations a kayaker can do to the kayak coaming (whether composite or plastic) to improve the seal, release or durability of a spray skirt?
When is it time to replace a spray skirt? What signs of wear or aging should a kayaker look for? Click here to read more.
If you would like to read the previous articles with questions to manufacturers of PFDs, kayaks, paddles, immersion wear and spray skirts click here.
Sea Kayaker Store and More
2009 Calendars ARE IN!!
12 beautiful photos celebrating the alluring waterways that paddlers explore.
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NEW DVD
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Modern Greenland Kayaking
from Dubside.net
The story of how an ancient tradition gained international popularity (with an appearance by our editor, Christopher Cunningham.)
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Sea Kayaker October 2008 issue
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Inside this issue:
Safety: A Solo Paddler is Lost Near the Brooks Peninsula
Review: Hot-Weather PFD Reviewed
Kayak Reviews:
Baffin by BorealDesign (TECH SPECS PDF)
18X Sport by Epic Kayaks (TECH SPECS PDF)
Feature: Lost in Iceland, A Circumnavigation in
Search of Self
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More Info
25th Anniversary: West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium
Only a couple of weeks left until the West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium September 19-21 at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA.
Please stop by the our booth to say hello and pick up a free copy of Sea Kayaker magazine. You can enter your name for a chance to win a free one year subscription while you’re there!
Tips for Better Kayaking
Planning for a multiday Trip: #486 Plan for the unexpected. On your float plan include bad-weather escape options, alternative means of communication, and contingency routes to a road and a phone.
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-From Sea Kayaker's Savvy Paddler by Doug Alderson, Ragged Mountain Press, 2001.
Used with permission
Kayaking History
September 3, 2001: Peter Bray completes a 3000-mile 76-day crossing of North Atlantic and lands in Beldereg, Ireland.
September 4, 1741: Off one of the Shumagin Islands, Vitus Bering encounters two Unangan paddlers, the first contact between Aleuts and Westerners.
September 11, 1933: Fridel Meyer is injured in a car accident and abandons circumnavigation of Great Britain.
September 20, 1939: Oskar Speck arrives in Saibai, Australia, having paddled from Hamburg, Germany, a voyage of 30,000 miles spanning over 7 years.
September 20, 1943: Operation Jaywick Allied forces in folding kayaks set out on a raid of targets in Singapore.
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