Small specialty stores offer lessons and tours to beginners. Local manu- facturers are producing boats suited to the need of the customers. Sea kayaking in Japan has been re-


claimed from big business by the kay- akers and the future looks bright. In North America, we could take a lesson from the Japanese to get sea kayaking back on course. The best way to do this is to support full-service specialty stores since these are the resource cen- tres for training the next generation of paddlers. Another way is to encourage


our friends who show an interest in sea kayaking to pay the extra money to get a seaworthy kayak, then learn the seamanship skills relevant to the trips they dream of. I’m not suggesting that there is no


place for rec boats, only that this is a different activity entirely. Sea kayak- ing is based upon knowledge and the seaworthiness of both our skills and our equipment. —John Dowd is one of the founders of the sea kayaking industry and the author of the book Sea Kayaking.


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