Pictured: Seaward Pura SR-120, a 12-foot, thermoformed recreation kayak in recycled ABS plastic. ($1,595; 42 lbs; seawardkayaks.com) 1. Styles – Touring kayaks come in three main types: sit-on-tops, ...

Sometimes art and science can be in the same boat. New kayaks, rigged with custom sensors by British scientists, can serenade paddlers with music made from environmental data. The Sonic Kayak records ...

The magic of kayaking is that rather than being a single water sport, there are kayaks optimized for (almost) every kind of waterway and every sort of aquatic interest. There are kayaks built to ply ...

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Poland’s Aleksander Doba is only the fourth person ever to paddle a kayak across the Atlantic Ocean, and first to do so from Africa (Dakar, Senegal) to South America (Acara, Brazil). The 64-year-old ...

All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes, it’s bioluminescent. Every summer, when dinoflagellate plankton bloom throughout the Salish Sea, water glows an electric blue-green. But there’s a critical ...

From lightweight packrafts that weigh less than some tents to whitewater rigs that can take on the gnarliest rapids, there are hundreds of different types of boats on the market these days. Last year, ...

The kayak’s precise origin story is murky, but sources credit various Indigenous groups of the far north — modern-day Alaska, Greenland and Siberia — with inventing the boat for hunting and fishing.

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