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Navigation/Weather:

 

Windy: Wind map & weather forecast

xc weather, slightly different modelling and forecast (UK only)

Inshore Waters - BBC Weather

Tide-times for full months: Ullapool Tides | May 2024 | 30 day calendar | TideTime.org

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 OS Maps

Free OS Maps of the UK and Ireland

Guide to Penrhyn Mawr tidal race

Currents Anglesey & Menai Straits

Micro-Plastic and Marine Litter

Overview/Literature Review Marine-based Micro-Plastic

Rydde, a both Citizens-Science and Clean-Up Tool (Norway)

How to minimize Exposure to Mircoplastics

The Marketing Stunt of Plastic Recycling

"Fishing for Litter" Initiative

Coaches:

Manhattan Kayak Co., brief tours to full circumnavigation of Manhattan (ca. 8 hrs)

Kayak Waveology, Stonington, CT

Magnus Sigurjonsson, Reykjavic, Iceland

Eila Wilkinson, Anglesey

Sea Kayaking UK, Anglesey

Sea State Coaching, 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 of the glaciers of Tierra Del Fuego, today and 100 years ago

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

Free Download "The Northern Isles", Orkney & Shetlands

List of 1000+ Kayaking Books, assembled by Paul Caffyn

Celtic Tides, Ireland circumnavigation, by Chris Duff

Southern Exposure, New Zealand circumnavigation, by 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

Paddling Shops:

Summit to See, Anglesey, Wales

Sea Kayak Oban, Oban, Scotland

Charities:

RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Association (UK & Ireland)

World Central Kitchen, one of my favorite charities, feeding people in Gaza and beyond

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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