Sea kayaking heads into unknown waters as Johnson Outdoors discontinues Necky, Eddyline sells to employee management team and startups look to the crowd. An Eddyline kayaker tours into unknown waters ...

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 ...

Either one would make a good boat for you, I would think. The Wilderness Systems Tarpon 120 ($675; www.wildernesssystems.com) is a cute little sit-on-top 12-footer that’s designed to be very stable ...

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 ...

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, ...

For a few months back in 1987, Ed Gillet was a global media sensation. With little money or supplies, no support crew and an off-the-shelf sea kayak, the 36-year-old San Diego adventurer paddled alone ...

Rob Thompson wants to teach big business a thing or two about the circular economy. Thompson runs a startup that collects discarded plastic from the ocean, along with used fishing nets from commercial ...

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