June 8, 2015
Get in the water! With weather warming up, it’s time to hit the beaches, rivers, and lakes with our kayaks, SUPs, rafts, canoes, boats, and okay, you get the idea! Our water-loving friends at NRS have got you covered with their H2Core line, a layering system designed specifically for paddlers. We tested out the H2Core […]
January 26, 2015
Coming 2016. Start training now for the Great Pacific Race of 2016. This is an extreme endurance race with ocean row boats (yes, ROW boats!) and crews of 2 or 4 people competing to cross the Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California to Waikiki, Hawaii. Last year’s inaugural race had 13 crews, of which 7 successfully […]
August 14, 2014
Turn your SUP board into a single scull rowing boat! The Oar Board is a novel contraption that easily attaches to most SUP boards allowing you to use it as a rowing machine. Their special fit-on-top sliding rigger system maintains your weight in the center of the board so it’s very stable, and the sliding […]
September 18, 2013
On your next water-related outdoor activity, make sure to grab the Floating Marsupial. This handy wallet and keychain by our friends at Chums really does float! We tested it with 4 keys attached to a keychain (so probably about the weight of 5 keys) along with 2 credit cards. The bright red wallet was easy […]
February 27, 2013
Inspiring. Sarah Outen is the first woman and the youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean. She rowed for 124 days, 14 hours and 9 minutes before arriving on the island of Mauritius. She was the first woman to attempt the crossing single-handedly, and only the fourth person to ever complete a solo […]
May 21, 2012
Dreamed of voyaging the oceans of the world… by rowing? Jill Fredston has more than twenty thousand miles of ocean rowing, including across the shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Norway. Like those adventures on the great trails, Jill and her husband have “sea-trekked” through hurricane-force winds, ice fields and fended off grizzlies, polar bears […]