Touring and Sea Kayaking: The Essential Skills and Safety

Touring and Sea Kayaking: The Essential Skills and Safety

Touring and Sea Kayaking: The Essential Skills and Safety

Touring and Sea Kayaking: The Essential Skills and Safety

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Overview

This guide provides beginner and experienced kayakers with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and comfortably enjoy sea kayaking. Whether interested in touring around inland waterways, or exploring coastal waters, the stunning photography, fun illustrations, and concise descriptions make this book the most valuable on the sport.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781896980713
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/01/2012
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 7.06(w) x 9.08(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Ken Whiting is a World Champion kayaker, five-time National Champion, and one of the most influential paddlers in the world. For over fourteen years, Ken has shared his enthusiasm for paddling through his teaching and by producing a series of best-selling, award-winning instructional books and DVDs. In recognition of his accomplishments and contributions to advancing the sport of kayaking, Paddler Magazine, named Ken one of their "Paddlers of the Century".

Alex Matthews is a passionate sea kayaker and a successful writer-known for his irreverent wit and humor. His articles are routinely published in paddling magazines, and he has worked in both kayak design and marketing for prominent paddlesport companies. It is no surprise that his sign of the Zodiac is Pisces - the sign of the fish. Ken Whiting is a World Champion kayaker and one of the most influential paddlers in the world. He was even recognized so by Paddler Magazine as one of their "Paddlers of the Century." For the past twelve years Ken has shared his enthusiasm and passion through his teaching, and through his production of ten best-selling, award-winning instructional books and DVDs on the sport of kayaking.

Table of Contents

Intro

*Equipment

*Before hitting the water

*The essentials

*The essential strokes

*Rescues

*Traveling on the water

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