Sea Kayaking

The close-knit paddlesports community lost one of its most passionate members when Innova founder Tim Rosenhan unexpectedly passed away Oct. 24 at age 68 in Twisp, Washington. “Tim was truly passionate about getting people on the water at an affordable price by importing a quality European-made inflatable,” says Larry Laba, owner of SOAR Inflatables...

Want to play Hollywood movie mogul and help save a river at the same time? Filmmaker Greg Hamilton, a former producer for Warren Miller Entertainment, has two weeks left in a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his new documentary film, Power of the River about a whitewater- and fly-fishing-filled trip down Bhutan’s remote Drangme river…

Let’s just say that’s a lot of river sandal tread to protect our nation’s waterways and other public lands. Putting its money where its mouth is, footwear maker KEEN recently wrapped up its Live Monumental Road Trip, traveling 7,500 miles and gathering more than 30,000 signatures to advocate for the protection of 3 million acres of public land…

A record turnout of 96 racers hit Virginia’s Russell Fork for the Lord of the Fork race, with uber-stud Dane Jackson winning for the second straight year...

Pardon the puns, but watershoe manufacturers – who used to simply target male rafters and kayakers – are getting a leg up, hands down, on other paddlesport accessory categories by going after the burgeoning women’s, kids’, SUP markets and more to increase sales. A PL sampler of a few you’ll see in store aisles this season…

When this year’s 20th anniversary of the coveted Green Race near Asheville, N.C., kicks off Nov. 7, it’ll draw some of the world’s best kayakers to one of the country’s best Class V runs for little more than bragging rights and a piece of glass. Here are a few things you might not know about it…

Make room in your ammo can or drybag…there’s a new river rescue guide out to add to your library by Swiftwater Rescue Level 5 and Rescue 3 International Water Rescue Instructor Trainer Educator Nate Ostis: The NOLS River Rescue Guide…

You’re chances of actually being able to paddle Southwestern Colorado’s Dolores River just got better … even without the onslaught of El Nino. The Colorado Water Conservation Board recently voted to seek an in-stream flow water right on the stretch...

With just two seconds separating the top five men’s finalists in this year’s 8th annual Sickline Extreme race on Austria’s Ötztaler Ache River, the racers were as close to each other racing as they were to their female model companions in the leader-position hot tub at the finish line afterward, where they waited for each other’s scores…

San Clemente, Calif., was the place to be if you're a SUPper worth your weight in sea salt, as it was another historic night at the 2015 SUP Awards presented by Tommy Bahama, showcasing the world’s elite SUP athletes, philanthropists and filmmakers.

Putting up with epic amounts of brush portaging, this summer Hyperlite Mountain Gear Ambassadors and adventurers Brad Meiklejohn, Roman Dial and Mike Curiak completed a two-week pack raft descent of Alaska’s Pile River through Lake Clark National Park.

While the Ugandans might have had trouble securing visas to compete in this year’s World Kayak Freestyle Championships on Canada’s Ottawa River, their hometown White Nile River is facing even more trouble waters…it’s about to be lost and changed forever by the construction of the Isimba Dam….

While the SUP market might be truncating somewhat – cases in point include Confluence’s recent purchase of Boardworks, Corran SUP selling to Canada’s Kayak Distribution and Surf Tech inking a new distribution agreement with NSP – it hardly means a dearth of new designs. In fact, the category continues to take market share from conventional paddlecraft, thanks to enhanced stability, speed and the all-important ability to unleash consumers’ inner Laird Hamilton.

It’s a long ways away, and just a plain long ways. That’s the verdict from South Africa’s two-day Green Kalahari Canoe Marathon, which just wound up the spectacular Neus Gorge and served up weirs, rapids, portages, an irrigation canal and more for the world’s top marathon paddlers. And the drum roll, please…Thulani Mbanjwe was first across the line and overall winner of the fourth edition of this lactic-acid-inducing endurance race. In so doing, he picked up the lion’s share of the $22,000 (US) prize…

Talk about putting your money – and, more importantly, manpower – where your river mouth is. Upholding a mission that inspired the company name and mission, urban-outdoor apparel and accessories brand United By Blue recently announced that it has removed 250,000 pounds of trash from rivers, oceanfronts and other waterways since the company’s founding in 2010.

Remember when all the new kayaks used to come out in the whitewater category? Now it’s in fish kayaks, with a slew of companies unveiling new fish kayaks this year to better land lunkers and consumers. PL offers a sneak peak at this year’s line-up…

While he didn’t make the U.S. team for the first time in umpteen million years, Father EJ must still be proud. How could he not be when his high-flying, airborne offspring, Dane and Emily Jackson, paddled their way to the gold in the men’s and women’s division of the ICF Kayak Freestyle World Championships?

Yep, it’s that time of year again. Time for one of the East’s best whitewater runs to kick into gear, thanks to releases from the Summersville Dam. So what are you waiting for? It’s Gauley Season, by golly…

It was the old man’s day. Aspen’s Charlie MacArthur, a kayak and SUP legend throughout the Rockies, cemented his stature in stone at the 2015 Gore Fest on Gore Canyon of the Colorado, winning both the long boat kayak race and downriver SUP race…

Will the reign of Dane still be a pain for other competitors? We’ll find out soon enough as the ICF Kayak Freestyle World Championships head to Canada’s Ottawa River August 30–September 5...

It was bound to happen: the first positive drug test in Int’l Rafting Federation history. As reported by Michael Lindberg, head of the IRF’s Anti-Doping Committee, the verdict came after a doping sample carried out May 17, 2015, during the National Rafting Championships in Serbia, showing the presence of a prohibited substance: cannabis.

When Confluence recently announced that it is ceasing distribution of Wave Sport in North America, and only keeping them available in Europe, it ushered in the end of a brand long credited with helping the sport gain mainstream traction. We caught up with a few former Wave Sport paddlers, from Dan Gavere to Eric Jackson, for their thoughts on the brand's legacy...

While the real hit is to the environment, rivers outfitters along the Animas River is southwest Colorado are also feeling the effects of the recent mining waste spill that dumped more than 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas near Silverton.

Like two rivers rejoining after a brief detour around an island, boat manufacturers Hurricane Kayaks and Legacy Paddlesports have reached an agreement to combine their companies, reuniting industry players like Woody Callaway, Steve Jordan, Bill Medlin and more for the first time since the early Perception and later Liquidlogic days…