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Almanac

THE ALMANAC - UK Sea Kayak Guidebook's Knowledge Base

Camping & Outdoors Sea Kayaks Reviews
Centres & Sea Kayak Hire Equipment Technique & Skills
Clubs "Trip Planner" - a synopsis of resources for weather, tides, surf, etc accessible from one central page Safety, Rescue & Incident Reports
Navigation & GPS Weather Photography
Marine VHF Radio / EPIRB / PLB Tides & Surf / Wave Data History, Culture & Humour
Retailers & Manufacturers Downloads - PDF's of UKSKGB Articles Wildlife & Flora
Webcams DIY, Boat & Kit Repairs, Maintenance & Modifications Geology
Travel & Accomodation Resources General Events - see also 2016 Events and Symposiums (pdf download) Other sea-kayaking sites & blogs
Sea Trips How to post pictures, links and quotes in Community Posts About UKSKGB
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Centres and hire 4

History 0

The Almanac History section

Kayaks 4

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This section draws together a range of information about sea kayaks using links to discussions on the Community Forum, articles, links to external articles and reviews both from UK Sea Kayak Guidebook's own Review Section and links to external reviews. For ideas on repairs, maintenance, modifications and things to make, click here. If you'd like to contribute an article or a link, your contribution is very welcome. Boat reviews are especially welcome. The Retailers Page has links to boat retailers and manufacturers own website, and also for clothing and equipment retailers and manufacturers websites. See the Equipment Page for information about everything from backrests to spraydecks and waterprooof map cases.

Specific Boats
General / Misc Material
Building Your Own Boat
Sailing Sea Kayaks

Repairs 26

DIY, REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE & MODIFICATIONS

A typical footpump installation from the article on Outfitting Sea Kayaks

Sea Kayak Repairs and Outfitting 10

Clothing and Tents 2

Equipment and miscellaneous 14

Reviews 24

I'd welcome any thoughts, input, ideas or suggestions either on the reviews here, or on any other kit, equipment or kayak(s) you use yourself or have seen someone else using, so please feel free to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you can add to this in any way.

Mike Buckley - October, 2004.

Kayaks 4

Equipment 11

Books and videos 3

This BOOKSHOP is simply a listing of quality Pesda Press titles for paddlers. A small commission from each sale goes towards the site running costs. 

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Clothing 6

Tides 3

General Tidal Infomation
Tide Calculators
 Surf & Wave Prediction

 

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  • World
  • World - Relevant Forum Threads
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  • Irish Sea Crossing - Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire
  • England
  • The Sound of Desolation

In This Section

  • Books and videos
    • Scottish Sea Kayaking - Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages
    • Sea Kayak - with Gordon Brown (DVD)
    • This is The Sea 2
  • Centres and hire
    • England (Including Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Scilly etc)
    • Scotland
    • Wales
    • World
  • Clothing
    • Kokatat Expedition drysuit
    • Kokatat MS Fit Tour BA
    • Kokotat Tectour XCR Cag
    • NRS Mukluks / Hunter Wellingtons
    • Palm Sidewinder Torrent drysuit
    • Palm Yukon Cag
  • Clothing and Tents
    • General advice and links
    • LED Tent Light
  • Equipment
    • Combined Strobe & Torch with Safety Whistles
    • Cookers - MSR Whisperlite International / Trangia - gas and meths
    • Epic Activ Touring and Relaxed Touring Paddles
    • Guardian Dual Function safety light
    • Icom IC-M71 Marine VHF
    • KCS Trolley
    • Lendal Kinetic Wing Paddles
    • Restop Disposable "human waste" bags
    • Seals Deck Bag
    • Vaude Mk II (Long) 2008
    • Vaude Power Atreus
  • Equipment and miscellaneous
    • A Portage Trolley for nothing
    • Boat mounted towlines
    • Bouyancy Aid Mounted Strobe, & LED Flashlight
    • DIY Paddle Leash / Paddle Park
    • Drinking Tube Clip
    • General advice and links
    • Kayak storage
    • Making a towline
    • Modified Deck Mounted Bag
    • Navigation Board for Charts and Maps
    • Shoulder Strap Mount for a Princeton Tec eco-flare
    • Towlines - conclusions
    • Towlines - introduction
    • Waist & BA towlines
  • Kayaks
    • Building Your Own Boat
    • General / Misc Material
    • Ocean Kayaks Frenzy SoT
    • Point 65°N Kayaks
    • Rockpool Kayaks - Alaw
    • Sailing Sea Kayaks
    • Shoreham Sea Kayaks Kaspian SK18 and Kaspian HV17
    • Specific Boats
  • Sea Kayak Repairs and Outfitting
    • Finishing a North Shore Calypso
    • General advice and links
    • Making a skeg wire field-replaceable
    • Mending composite boats
    • Outfitting - cockpit
    • Outfitting - deck
    • Outfitting - introduction
    • Outfitting - pump installations
    • Repair / Emergency Bag
    • Repairing a Skeg
  • Tides
    • General Tidal Infomation
    • Surf & Wave Prediction
    • Tide Calculators

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