Author: Justine

I’m selling my Explorer kayak that safely carried me around the South island of New Zealand & around the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Other than these 2 trips, the kayak has rarely been used and it’s in very good condition. The few nicks and scratches have been fixed & all the hatches are dry. As you can see, it’s got a light blue deck, black hull, red seam & red keel strip.

£1,500 o.n.o.

The kayak in in North Wales if anyone wants to come and have a look, or take it out for a spin.

I’d also sell my leopard print Explorer – which is in less good condition but is rather unusual!

£1,300 ono.

My copy of the latest Adventure Kayak magazine recently hit the doormat. I was especially excited to read this issue as I knew they were covering a lot of stories about rolling, especially Greenland style rolling. Editor Virginia Marshall writes about her experiences at one of the biggest Greenland style meets & interviews the stars of “This is the Roll” Cheri & Turner about the 3 rolls that we cover in the DVD. Cheri is described as a dark eyed blonde in a little black tuilik, which I quite enjoyed! And Turner is credited on the cover with predicting the future. That’s impressive even for someone with such a wise-looking beard!

“This is the Roll” has a brief review, along with Greenland-style kit.

Adventure Kayak is published in Canada 4 times a year by Rapid Media – on paper and digitally. You can read the whole latest issue of the magazine on-line right here!

Another good paddling magazine “Ocean Paddler” is offering new 2 year subscribers a free copy of “This is the Roll”. You get 12 print subscription for £60, or 12 digital subscriptions for £30 – both with a free DVD worth £20! Check out the offer here on the OP website.

Meanwhile in blogs, another humorous and very positive review of “This is the Roll” can be read here on Dave O’s “The Lake is the Boss” blog.

We now have the “This is the Sea” trailers with French, Spanish and Italian subtitles. Learn to roll in multiple languages!

Subtitulado en Español

Soutitre en Français

Sottitolato in Italiano

All “This is the Roll” DVDs have optional  subtitles in French, Spanish & Italian.

More information here.

Kayaking to Puffin island always brings a smile to people’s faces! Today on a beautiful, calm, sunny day was no exception! Cheri, Turner and I put on our summer kayaking kit, sunscreen & sun caps and paddling around the small island. The sound of nesting and roosting birds echoed around us impressively and was somehow calming. Hundreds of guillemots, razor bills & a few puffins formed sociable rafts on the calm sea, while others joined kittiwakes, shags & oyster catchers squawking on the rock ledges. Nature noisily getting on with being nature – I always find that reassuring.

The resident seals were mostly very happy to sunbathe on their rocks as we paddled past. It was so hot that steam was shimmering off a few of them. Some of the younger ones popped up behind us to check us out, and one rolled under Turners kayak for him. Perhaps he was wanting Turner to roll over too and come and play!

Cheri & Turner are here with us for another couple of days, before they head to Scotland, Devon & Cornwall to teach rolling and skinny-stick paddling. While they are here, if anyone would like a “This is the Roll” DVD signed by all 3 of us — then put your order in and put in the comments that you’d like a signed one! We’d be happy to oblige!

I hope you are enjoying a bit of sunshine in your life, wherever you are.