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.

Sea Kayak Around Ireland' chronicles the adventures of two Irishmen who set out to do just as the title says. Despite gale after gale, they succeed.

"Don't leave me," I cried out to my paddling partners while kayaking in Nuchatlitz Inlet, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. "I'm stuck." I wasn't exaggerating. My kayak was firmly lodged in wide ...