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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

Coaches:

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

Kayak Waveology, Stonington, CT

Magnus Sigurjonsson, Reykjavic, Iceland

Sea Kayaking UK, coaching and paddling around Anglesey

Sea State Coaching, coaching and paddling around Anglesey

Sea Kayaking Wales, coaching and paddling around Anglesey

God-Tur, Ronny's sea-Kayaking company in Bergen, Norway

Recommended:

Cottage Rental, Saunders Island, Falklands

Hostal Copiapó Puerto Montt, Chile

Mission Bunkhouse Mallaig, single rooms £30, Mallaig, Scotland

The Coffee Bothy, Broadford, Isle of Skye

The Bakehouse & Crannog, Mallaig. Best bakery in the world. No doubt.

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:

Lay a keel-strip, by Janice and Bill Lozano, Atlantic Kayak Tours, NY

Coldwater immersion, cold shock & hypothermia info, Atlantic Kayak Tours, NY

Wire replacement of skeg

Get started with expedition sea-kayaking, by Glenmore Lodge

Books:

Scottish & Irish Sea Kayaking Guide Books by Pesda Press

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 by Doug Alderson

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:

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same, The Guardian

The Happy Isles Of Oceania, Paul Theroux

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