How to:

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​Do a Deep Diggidy Dig

Learn to Hand-roll

Do a Haghighi

Lay a Keel-strip

Avoid Cold-Shock

Replace a Skeg-wire

Get started with Expedition Sea Kayaking

Optimize and vary your Paddle Stroke

Build your Contact-tow Line

Empty a flooded hatch

Repair a boat on the water

Do a Scoop Rescue

Do The Dump

Use less Plastic

Rescue a Paddler out of a Gully

Assemble a 3-piece kayak in 45 seconds

Face Impermanence

Calculate Progres into Headwinds

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Navigation/Weather:

 

Windy: Wind map & weather forecast

Inshore Waters - BBC Weather

Weather forecast Norway

Times and VHF channels of UK weather forecast

Navionics Boating App (free 14-day trial period)

Free Norwegian OS Maps to download

Free US (NOAA) chart-download

Free OS Maps of the UK and Ireland

Guide to Penrhyn Mawr tidal race

Currents Anglesey & Menai Straits

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Micro-Plastic and Marine Litter:​

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Microplastics-Editorial National Geographic

Microplastics in our Bodies (NY Times)

UN Plastics Treaty

High Ambition Plastics Coalition

Rydde: Citizens-Science & Clean-Up Tool (Norway)

Plastic Polution Map Norway (check box for results)

How to minimize Exposure to Mircoplastics

​The Marketing Stunt of Plastic Recycling

"Fishing for Litter" Initiative

The Great Recycling Con (NY Times video)

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Sea-Kayaking Coaches:

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Manhattan Kayak Co., NY, NY

Kayak Waveology, Stonington, CT

Magnus Sigurjonsson, Reykjavic, Iceland

Eila Wilkinson, Anglesey

Sea Kayaking UK, Anglesey

Sea State Coaching, Anglesey

Coastal Spirit, Anglesey

Sea Kayaking Wales, Anglesey

Sea Kayaking Anglesey

God-Tur, Ronny in Bergen, Norway

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Places to spend some time:

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Strandbar & Strandhotel Stokkoya, Norway

Cottage Rental, Saunders Island, Falklands

Hostal Copiapó Puerto Montt, Chile

Mission Bunkhouse, Mallaig, Scotland

Raasay House, Isle of Raasay, Scotland

The Bakehouse, Mallaig, Scotland

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Books:

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Scottish & Irish Sea Kayaking Guide Books

Download "The Northern Isles" Orkney & Shetlands

List of 1000+ Kayaking Books, assembled by P. Caffyn

Celtic Tides, Ireland circumnavigation, Chris Duff

Southern Exposure, N.Z, circumnavigation, Chris Duff

Deep Trouble, 20 Sea Kayaking Accidents

Sea Kayaker's Handbook

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Trip Inspirations:

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Justine Curgenven's Sea-Kayaking Videos

Youtube channel with Trip Reports from Scottish Isles

Scottish Sea Kayaking Trip Planner

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Expedition Reports:

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South Georgia Island Circumnavigation (Team NZ)

South Georgia Island Circumnavigation (Team UK)

Paul Caffyn, Alaska 1989

Antarctic Peninsula, Mark Jones, Graham Charles​

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Paddling Shops:

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Summit to Sea, Anglesey, Wales

Sea Kayak Oban, Oban, Scotland​​

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Travel Literature:

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The Happy Isles Of Oceania, Paul Theroux

American Bulk, Emily Mester

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The Small Isles (Rum, Eigg, Canna, Muck):

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Rum and The Small Isles, Geological History

Arte Documentary Isle of Eigg

Winter on Canna (BBC)

Summer on Canna (BBC)

Kayaking Rum and Canna

Kayaking Eigg and Muck

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