Sea Kayaking

Supalicious. That sums up the sup scene at the 2016 SUP Awards presented by Tommy Bahama, where the world’s top suppers, filmmakers and more gathered under the stars at Doheny State Beach, marking the first year at the new venue—also the site of the Pacific Paddle Games.

He’s as bad ass on the water as he is with words. Jon Turk, who was named one of National Geographic’s Top 10 Adventurers of the Year for his circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island with Erik Boomer, recently released Crocodiles and Ice, “a scientist/adventurer's journey into a Consciousness Revolution based on a deep, reciprocal communication with the Earth.”

Celebrating those who inspire adventure, endurance, performance, progression, teamwork and community in paddling, paddlers gathered at this year’s Outdoor Retailer tradeshow in Salt Lake City to honor the winners of the fifth annual Canoe & Kayak Awards, including Male and Female Paddler of the Year, Paddle with Purpose, Spirit of Adventure, Lifetime Achievement and Nexen Tire's Expedition of the Year and $10,000 Dream Adventure Contest. And the envelope, please…

At this year’s ACA Downriver Nationals in Old Town, Maine, the old school (old’s cool) pairing of Rob Center and Kay Henry -- Center, the co-founder of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, and Henry of Mad River Canoe (now owned by Confluence) -- still proved formidable, coming out of retirement after 15 years and fresh back from a 21-day hiking trip in Scotland, to not only show up but win the Mixed 55+ Class. We caught up with Center for his take on the win…

After years at the top of the C1 men's field, three-time Olympian Casey Eichfeld finally strikes Bronze.

Fans of rafting and kayaking Maine’s Penobscot River will now be doing so in a new national park. Yep…on Aug. 24, in conjunction with August 25th’s National Park Service centennial, President Barack Obama signed a law creating the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

Earlier this summer, West Virginia's Gauley and Meadow River watersheds were flooded by heavy rains, with the Gauley setting a new flow record and nearly every boat launch and take-out damaged, but that hasnn't dampened spirits for the upcoming Gauley Fest Set. 15-18...

If you’ve spent time in the Southeast you know Fall brings NOC’s most popular events and a range of outdoor activities with a backdrop of brilliant mountain foliage.

With Innova Kayak founder Tim Rosenhan’s passing in late 2015, the company recently announced that the reins will be handed over to longtime European Innova manufacturer Gumotex. We caught up with Innova cofounder Paul Neutz for his take on the brand and its transition…

You know him as an uber-sweet boater and filmmaker. Now know him as an artist. Yep, Rush Sturges has officially released his new rap album on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon, letting you jam to his tunes on your shuttle. A few thoughts from the river-running rap-master...

The International canoeing community is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Olympic silver medallist and German slalom coach Stefan Henze. Henze succumbed on Monday to injuries he sustained in a car accident in Rio on Friday morning...

There's a reign in Spain now for women's K-1 at the Olympics. In a dominating performance, Maialen Chourraut brought the country its first-ever slalom Olympic gold with the fastest women’s K-1 time of the entire competition....

And Great Britain gets its first-ever slalom gold in Rio. That's the story line from down under, as Joseph Clarke won Great Britain's first individual gold medal in the Olympic Games canoe slalom at Rio's Whitewater Stadium on Wednesday...

And the first whitewater slalom medal in Rio goes to....France! Denis Gargaud Chanut of France inherited the mantle of French canoe slalom great (and three-time C-1 gold medalist) Tony Estanguet as he won France's seventh Olympic Games gold medal in C-1 slalom at Rio's Whitewater Stadium on Tuesday.

At least one of these might taste better out of your river bootie than a warm PBR. Stoli Vodka recently tapped extreme kayaker Benny Marr, as well as other elite extreme athletes, as part of a campaign to have them mix drinks in action to help show that men do, in fact, like their foo-foo drinks...

Come on…does a state that already has perhaps the country's best whitewater really need the best play wave, too? That's the findings, as Boise’s play wave recently earned kudos as among the nation’s best…for surfers and kayakers....

Haven’t knocked Devil’s Canyon of Alaska’s Susitna River off your Triple Crown list yet? Don’t worry, you have more time. The Susitna and its heralded big water Class V stretch Devil’s Canyon—which comprises the notorious Triple Crown along with the Grand Canyon of the Stikine and Alsek’s Turnback Canyon—was saved from being dammed by the stroke of a pen June 29, when Alaska Governor Bill Walker cancelled plans for the Susitna-Watana Dam megaproject.

The U.S. National Whitewater Center's water-based operations remained closed this week due to the fact that an 18-year-old contracted Naegleria fowleri amoeba after visiting the Center, and later died.

The Olympics are upon us in Rio, and USACK recently announced who will be representing the red, white and blue on the water…(hint: one of them, Casey Eichfeld, will become the first U.S. canoeist in history to compete in two disciplines at a single Olympic Games...

When Ralph Frese started the Des Plaines River Marathon 59 years ago to give his boy scouts (for whom he built 500 canoes) an activity – he probably never envisioned the race would continue for this long. But now it just wrapped up its 59th year, with its 60th anniversary coming up quickly.

In its fifth year, the North Fork Championships was bigger and better than ever, with high flows testing the mettle of the world’s best. And for his first time, Dane Jackson paddled down the gauntlet of whitewater to the top spot on the podium, just a half second faster than the runner-up....

Ever thought of kayaking over Niagara? Neither have we. But Rafa Ortiz has, and his exploits now come to the silver screen in Rush Sturges’s Chasing Niagara, which takes viewers from the rainforest rivers of Mexico to the waterfalls of the Northwest and eventually, Niagara itself. Director and athlete Rush Sturges chimes in on the making of the flick…

A paddling company without a marketing head can be like a paddlecraft without a rudder. That short period is over for Johnson Outdoors, which is proud to announce the hiring of Ryan Lilly as the new marketing director for their Watercraft division.

Eleven times is a lot to win any race, let alone one as adrenaline-filled and daunting as the annual FIBArk downriver race on Colorado's Arkansas River. But at the ripe age of 55, Durango's wily veteran Andy Corra, owner of Four Corners Riversports, made up for last year's second-place finish with his 11th win at this year's race, despite rolling his downriver boat at the crux...