Bobbing up and down in waves that sparkle in the morning sun, the Boys of Late Summer — as they don’t mind being called — look like mechanical toys, as if an unseen hand wound them up on the beach and ...

More than the mild surf kicked up foam at the 2004 Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival last weekend. The art of designing surf boats has reached a boil. Paddlers hunting a competitive edge launched new ...

The dream is as old as sports. Golfers seek clubs which might whack balls 10 more yards down a freeway. Hikers hope for boots that can leave them happily wiggling toes after an 18-mile day. Sailors ...

Kate Hives on how to surf a sea kayak on ocean waves. Sea kayak surfing – the fringy sister of an already fringe subculture of paddlesports – has taken on its own following in recent years. Although ...

NEWPORT -- I imagined trying to surf my kayak in the ocean would be similar to learning to paddle it in whitewater: humbling, but with salt instead of fresh water shooting up my nose. Mercifully, I ...

Waves of grain and seas of corn didn't do much for Gordon Rock. But once the Iowa native discovered surf kayaking, waves became his passion. Rock discovered the fun of flipping stubby little boats ...

We pay so much attention to riding a surfboard, that sometimes we forget about the paddling. And when things get heavy, it ...

Located in Empire, Sleeping Bear Surf & Kayak is celebrating winter in Northern Michigan with a new challenge that requires you to head outdoors and play in the water AND on the snow in the same day.

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The lack of snow in the Olympic Mountains because of spring-like warmth has led to an early outbreak of hiking, biking, surfing and kayaking on the North Olympic Peninsula. “It’s been sunny and 60 at ...