Boat Building

• Nick Schade’s forums are a wonderful resource for boatbuilding and paddling techniques.
• The QajaqUSA forum has everything you could ever want to know about traditional building and paddling skills.
• Redfish Kayaks has several models of strip plans, and Joe Greenley makes some of the most beautiful boats you will ever see.
• Harvey Golden has written the book on Greenland kayaks…literally!
• Pygmy Boats is an excellent resource for kits, plans, and advice for plywood stitch and glue boats.

Instruction

• Ginni Callahan, at Columbia River Kayaking is a BCU 5* paddler, level 4 coach and an Advanced open Coastal ACA instructor.
• Cheri Perry and Turner Wilson at Kayak Ways teach skin on frame kayak building and Greenland rolling and strokes.

Symposia

• SSTIKS is a traditional paddling gathering in June at Twanoh State Park , Washington. Includes instruction at all levels, games, food, kayak building, paddle carving in a family friendly venue.
• Delmarva Paddlers’ Retreat is traditional skills oriented paddlers’ gathering in Delaware. Since 1988.
• Qajaq Training Camp is traditional paddler’s weekend of classeson the shores of Lake Michigan.
• HRGF the Hudson River Greenland Festival, is  at Croton Point Park on the Hudson River,  New York State.

Weather and Tide Links

• NOAA tides and currents homepage
• NWS Pacific Northwest Coastal Marine Data
• One Stop Oregon Surf Check
• Astoria, Oregon Aviation Weather report and forecast
• Coastal Waters forecast, Cape Shoalwater to Cascade Head
• National Data Buoy Center, Columbia River weather buoy 46029

Skills Organizations

• BCU North America
• ACA homepage
• OOPS, the Oregon Ocean Paddling Society club