Kayak Na Pali Kaua'i: How To Handle

By Doug Killpatrick

Wrote and drew this book to help people in kayaks understand developing ocean situations. How people can react. Tried to relay the accumulation of twelve years experience. Have instructed thousands in kayaking. Wrote about what worked. What kept us afloat.

Instructions on how to interpret the local weather forecasts and potential ocean conditions. Details on loading gear to keep the kayak manageable during the adventure. Information on the art, language, of reading the ocean.

This manual will be useful to anyone interested in exploring Na Pali Kaua'i by kayak. Planning or dreaming of going on a day tour, camping, training to be a guide, thinking about that. How To Handle is an inexpensive and valuable tool in preparation for the experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Doug Killpatrick
• Release date: Jul 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370571789

Doug Killpatrick

The author has twelve years of experience leading kayak tours along Na Pali in the summer and in the Hanalei area during the winter. Learned to surf eight foot Hawaiian waves, on short boards. Nine years on the streets of Seattle as a bicycle messenger, all the while playing music in an improvisational tribal punk rock band, 90's. Many rigorous life saving courses passed. Plenty of adventures free diving into fresh water springs around Florida. Canoeing, swimming, ice skating, on the lakes he grew up near, in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Ten years of volunteer work clearing marine debris from the coast of Kaua'i. Records, engineers, and produces his own music, Disperse Birds. Owns and operates the Love On Stuff organic clothing brands.

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