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Navigation/Weather:

 

Windy: Wind map & weather forecast

xc weather: different forecast modelling (UK only)

Inshore Waters - BBC Weather

Tide-times for full months

Times and VHF channels of UK weather forecast

Navionics Boating App (free 14-day trial period)

Free Norwegian OS Maps to download

Free App HVOR? for Norwegian marine charts

Free OS Maps of the UK and Ireland

Guide to Penrhyn Mawr tidal race

Currents Anglesey & Menai Straits

Micro-Plastic and Marine Litter:

Literature Review Marine-based Micro-Plastic

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

How to minimize Exposure to Mircoplastics

The Marketing Stunt of Plastic Recycling

"Fishing for Litter" Initiative

Coaches:

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

God-Tur, Ronny in Bergen, Norway

Recommended:

Cottage Rental, Saunders Island, Falklands

Hostal Copiapó Puerto Montt, Chile

Mission Bunkhouse, Mallaig, Scotland

The Coffee Bothy, Broadford, Isle of Skye

The Bakehouse, Mallaig. Best bakery in the world

Before-After-Photos glaciers Tierra Del Fuego

Paddling permit ("Zarpe") for Chile/Patagonia

Anglesey Sea Kayak Symposium (every year)

How to:

 

​Learn to Hand-roll

Lay a keel-strip

Avoid Cold-Shock

Replace a skeg wire

Get started with expedition sea-kayaking

Books:

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, New Zealand circumnavigation, Chris Duff

Deep Trouble, 20 sea-kayaking accidents

Sea Kayaker's Handbook

Trip Inspirations:

Justine Curgenven's Sea-Kayaking Videos

Youtube channel with trip reports from Scottish Isles

Scottish Sea Kayaking Trip Planner

Expedition Reports:

South Georgia Island 2005 Circumnavigation (Team NZ)

South Georgia Island 2005 Circumnavigation (Team UK)

Paul Caffyn, Alaska 1989

Antarctic Peninsula, Mark Jones, Graham Charles, 2000

Paddling Shops:

Summit to See, Anglesey, Wales

Sea Kayak Oban, Oban, Scotland

Travel Literature:

Tyranny of the Algorithm: Why every Coffee Shop looks the same

The Happy Isles Of Oceania, Paul Theroux

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

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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