Left. Right. Left. Right. Paddle hard and then brace for impact. Paddle harder! One more salty smack in the face and then suddenly things are calm. The surf has been conquered and a wide expanse of ...

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 ...

San Francisco-based sea kayak instructor Sean Morley caught this 12- to 15-foot giant at Three Arches Rock near Pacific City, Ore., in late October. So is this the biggest wave successfully surfed in ...

Wind sent waves shivering down the surface of Lake Superior on the last day of my overnight sea kayaking trip as I coached ...

It’s April on the coast of Maine, and I’m upside-down underwater again. The ocean’s surface is a green gauze curtain swaying in the wind, and I can’t tell sideways from up. Think. I force my numb ...

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Join AJ McCord and Kendal Gile, of Safari Town Surf Shop to explore the Salmon River Estuary. Where the river meets the sea, some of the most unique scenery and wildlife of our ...

For sea kayakers, the San Juan Islands combine the best of all worlds: Only an hour ferry ride from the mainland, they’re sheltered from ocean swells by the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island, and ...