Archive for the ‘canoeing’ Category

If you have access to the Nautical Channel then you can switch over and watch some of our adventure documentaries . 7 sea kayaking and canoeing films have been packaged into a series called “Kayak Diaries”.

They have been airing for a while now – here is the schedule.

the Kayak Diaries will go on air every Sunday at 21.00 from the 5^th of May. Please find below the first airing times.

 

ANTARCTICA  05/05/2013

HAIDA GWAII 12/05/2013

ISLANDS OF FIRE 19/05/2013

SOUTH ISLAND CIRCUMNAVIGATION 26/05/2013

THE MOUNTAIN RIVER 02/06/2013

RANNOCH MOOR 09/06/2013

THE MOOSE RIVER 16/06/2013

 

Below the runs of each show:

 

Sundays 21.00

Mondays 02.00, 08.00, 16.00

Tuesdays 00.00, 09.00, 18.00

Wednesdays 07.00, 15.00

Thursdays 05.00, 11.00, 23.00

Fridays 06.00, 14.00

Saturdays  05.00, 15.00, 22.00

Sundays 17.00

If you don’t have the Nautical Channel then you can buy downloads of all these great films – and more – for as little as £1.99. Or you can buy the DVDs that they were published on – This is Canoeing – This is the Sea 4 and This is the Sea 3. These are available as DVDs or you can save money and buy the whole DVD package as a download.

Smart people may notice a similarity between the latest cover of “Canoeroots” magazine and the cover of “This is Canoeing” DVD! It’s the same photo of Becky Mason paddling on Quebec’s Lac Vert on both ( although magically she’s traveling in opposite directions!). I think this is the first time that a photo I’ve taken has been on a magazine front cover so it’s pretty exciting! I have also really enjoyed working with the folks at Rapid Media over the last few months. They sponsored “This is Canoeing” and their designer Beth Kennedy did a beautiful job of the cover of my DVD.

Rapid Media in Canada produce 4 magazines; Canoeroots, Rapid, Adventure Kayak & Kayak Angler. I contributed articles to the Spring issues of the first 3 of those. Here is the article about Hailey Thompson, a 15-year old who has already competed for American in a world championships and who I had the pleasure of filming for “This is Canoeing”. She gave a lovely talk at Canoecopia of how she got to where she is, and how much she appreciates all the help and support she gets.

For ‘Rapid’ magazine, I wrote about how women were allowed to compete in the world championship canoe slalom event for the first time last year, and how women are still battling to be allowed to compete in the Olympics.

For AdventureKayak I wrote articles about the ‘Dream homes’ of Paul Caffyn on the west coast of New Zealand, and Shawna & Leon environmentally friendly house on Orcas island.

If you buy ‘This is Canoeing’, you get a free on-line subscripion to both ‘”Canoeroots” and “Rapid” magazine, worth US $19.90. The details of how to claim your subscriptions are in the extras menu on Disc 2.

I’m giving my first London talk tomorrow night (Thursday) at 7.30pm at Brookbank London. I’ll be talking about some of my seakayaking and canoeing adventures, with seakayaking video clips from Kamchatka, Tasmania & New Zealand and canoeing clips from the new award winning ‘This is Canoeing’ DVD.