Links
Here are some links you may find useful
Nick Schade's forums are a wonderful resource for boatbuilding and paddling technique
The QajaqUSA forum has everything you could ever want to know about traditional paddling techniques
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Redfish has several models of strip plans, and Joe Greenley makes some of the most beautiful boats you will ever see. See www.redfishkayak.com. Photo by Sasha Van Roy. |
Nick Schade designed the Night Heron, my newest boat. See Dances With Waves for the launching pictures and review. |
NOAA tides and currents home page
NOAA weather station, Portland OR
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I have an ACA Basic Coastal certification with a Traditional Endorsement, and BCU 4-star. I teach for OOPS - the Oregon Ocean Paddling Society. If you are in the Olympia or Ilwaco, WA area, Tim Mattson (right) is an excellent instructor. See http://www.inkdrop.net/qajaq/ . Tim is an ACA open coastal instructor and offers custom kayak instruction drawing from the best of traditional, euro, and wing paddles. Henry Romer is an ACA open coastal open instructor with a traditional endorsement in Olympia, WA. He is also a BCU coach 3, and 5* trainee. Henry doesn't have a web site, but can be reached by clicking here. SSTIKS is a weekend of traditional paddling instruction in June at Twanoh State Park in Washington. See www.qajaqpnw.org for details. Ginni Callahan at Columbia River Kayaking is a BCU 5* paddler and L4 coach, and an Advanced Open Coastal ACA instructor.
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Trip to the Salmon River Estuary at near flood stage
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Karen Knight and I, after a class at Clear Lake Resort, a spring fed lake on the headwaters of the McKenzie River. More pictures of Karen Knight and Bob Foote on the Broken Boat trip pictures from a Depoe Bay trip the following week. Photo by Jennifer Owen |
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Warrior Rock
with rainbow, near St Helens, Oregon
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Tillamook Light
House, looking towards Seaside, 9- 18-05.
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Waterfall at
Cascade Head
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Another waterfall,
this one near Cathlamet, WA. When the river is this high you can paddle
behind it.
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YEAH!!! July
17 '06, photo by Bianca Wulff.
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The
Maple Handle on a King Island Paddle.
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