Here’s an interesting piece of video footage from a company that specialises in aerial video footage from an awesome remote control helicopter carrying a DSLR to shoot video. You can see a photo of the amazing helicopter rig on their website. A step up from the usual GoPro/bullet camera footage!
Welcome To Solent Sea Kayaking
Solent Sea Kayaking provides an ever growing series of articles on sea kayaking. It covers sea kayaking news, gear reviews and articles on a wide range of sea kayaking topics. If there is something sea kayaking related that you would like to see featured please get in touch with your ideas. I hope you find the site useful and interesting and always welcome feedback.
Happy paddling,
Duncan
Latest Articles
Video: Liquid Logistics Open Day
Following on from my earlier article about the Open Day at Liquid Logistics, Steve Mead, one of the instructors and multi-media whizzkid has put together a short video round-up of the day. It gives a nice flavour of what proved to be a great fun day on the water. I crop up a couple of [...]
Busy Weekend On The Water
After several days of windy, wet weather the Solent enjoyed a stunning weather window this weekend with glorious sunshine and relatively low winds. Perfect timing for two days of coaching on the water. Liquid Logistics Open Day Saturday was spent with the folks at Liquid Logistics on their first Open Day. The event was run [...]
Jim Krawiecki Video Shorts
Jim Krawiecki is already well known to many paddlers as the co-author of Welsh Sea Kayaking and the author of Northern England & IOM: Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages, both published by Pesda Press. There is also a really enjoyable podcast with Jim on Simon Willis’s Sea Kayak Podcasts website. Recently, Jim has been releasing [...]
Review: Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown DVD Volume 2
Introduction Following a raft of positive reviews and awards for the first Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown DVD, Simon Willis and Gordon Brown followed up with Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown Vol 2 which was released in October 2011. I reviewed the DVD for Ocean Paddler Magazine and was very impressed with the DVD. In [...]
BCU 2 Star Training – Liquid Logistics
I’ve been quite busy on the weekends coaching in recent weeks. Working for/with Isle of Wight Sea Kayaking and Liquid Logistics. A couple of weekends ago I spent a very enjoyable, if rather wet, day working with Liquid Logistics coach Stuart Watson on a BCU 2 star training course. The current BCU 2 Star award [...]
4 Star Assessment Photos
Last summer I undertook my BCU 4* Assessment. On the ‘group day’ a fellow candidate and I worked with a group of paddlers on a trip from Freshwater Bay, around the Needles to Colwell Bay. It was a superb day on the water with some stunning weather. Unfortunately I chose not to take my camera [...]
Technique: Bow Rudder – Doug Cooper
This video is provided by the excellent Outdoor Activity publisher Pesda Press and designed to be used in conjunction with the highly recommended book Sea Kayak Handling by Doug Cooper (reviewed here). It features a nice top down view of the Doug performing a bow rudder in flat water conditions.
Review: Into The Wind DVD
In the spring of 2011 Harry Whelan and Jeff Allen picked up the gauntlet to break a 21 year old record. Their 1000 mile journey would push them beyond their limits of endurance as they battled their way around Ireland’s remote and wind ravaged coastline. Many sea kayaker will be familiar with Jeff Allen and [...]
News: New Palm Aleutian Drysuit
The first drysuit I bought was the original Palm Aleutian Drysuit which I reviewed back in 2009. About 12 months or so I was one of a number of folks asked to provide updated thoughts and feedback to Palm as they began the process of updating the Aleutian Drysuit. I was really interested to see [...]
