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Walrus Jaeger

New: Walrus Kayaks now in stock.
Click here to read our review of the Walrus Jaeger.

Featured this month:

Onno Carbon Signature

Onno Paddles
Unique, superlight, handcrafted.
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Featured Resource: NOAA Booklet Charts
(free downloadable & printable charts of the U.S. coastline & Great Lakes.

From Waterlines, our paddling blog:

Downriver with a Twist -- An Initiation into Slalom Kayaking

Slalom, a race over a winding or zigzag course, isn’t just for skiers anymore. Canoers and kayakers get to slalom too. And they did — last Sunday in the annual slalom races at the Kenduskeag Stream Park in Bangor.

Below the Harlow Street Bridge in Bangor, the Kenduskeag Stream enters a picturesque steep-sided valley.  Between the bridge and and the Shopping Cart Drop,  the stream is narrow, the currents are strong; and there are two Class II-III drops — drops that have claimed more than a few boats during the 16-mile Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race.  For the downriver racer, the goal is to keep your boat upright, keep your bow downstream, have the right line and cruise right through this area, spending as little time as possible in it, never looking back.

Last weekend’s slalom race brought a whole new perspective to this part of the river, as the slalom required us to go sideways to the current, turn our bows into the biggest waves, reverse direction and go back upstream, take the drops at an angle and eddy out below, and even negotiate some of it going backward.

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Featured Maine Kayak Tour

Deer Isle Archipelago, Maine
Embark in the morning light for a 7 hour sea kayaking tour amongst the magnificent islands and ledges that stretch between Stonington & Isle au Haut. This island area on the western edge of Penobscot Bay, Maine is renowned as one of the top paddling destinations in North America. One of our most popular tours.

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Dawn to Dusk Tour, Deer Isle, Maine


Water Walker Sea Kayak

We offer kayak tours, instruction, rentals (and ample amounts of free advice). Our kayak tours are family and user friendly -- you don't have to have a high-powered budget or be a high powered athlete. Yet our tours regularly go to some of the most spectacular and ambitious coastal locations offered by outfitters in Maine.

Our retail shop specializes in performance designs by quality manufacturers who keep costs low by limiting advertising and distribution costs. Because of this and low markup, we can offer you more boat for less money -- our fiberglass single sea kayaks start at $1795, and we can ship anywhere in the continental U.S.

As a "backyard" business in Belfast, Maine, our goal is to provide first class kayaks at prices everyone can afford. We offer neighborly service -- and can ship nationwide. Please contact us for more information.
 

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