We woke tied-off to the rusted hulk of a half-sunken Norwegian whaling ship. Its story is legend along the Peninsula for having caught fire a century ago during a sail-away party, its stores of whale oil afire lighting up the sky for several days. Now it is just another ruined reminder of those boom days [...]

Kokatat Sea Kayaking Ambassador Nige Robinson sends a quick summary of another year coaching:
"It all started with an invitation to the BCU level 5 conference in Northern Ireland. Top coaches Steve Maynard and John Carmody were also coming over from the United States so it would have been a waste not to venture over to [...]

Freya Hoffmeister
On Tuesday Aug 30th, Kokatat Ambassador Freya Hoffmeister departed on her next big adventure - to become the first person to paddle the entire coast line of the South American continent. The 47-year-old business owner from Husum, Germay started this epic journey in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the middle of the East Coast.
 
Paddling clockwise, she [...]

"From the 5th to the 8th of August 2011, a host of sea kayakers converged on the Orkney Islands for a weekend of salt water fun and frolics. Paddle Orkney ’11 was a sea kayaking symposium based on mainland Orkney, organized voluntarily by local Orkney paddlers. This was the first time I had been to [...]

Olly Hicks, Patrick Winterton, Mick Berwick
Three top athletes and seasoned adventurers switch disciplines to take on their toughest challenge to date as they attempt to make kayaking history by following WW2 history and the story of The Shetland Bus. They will take on 400 kilometers of open ocean in their bid to make the first [...]