A complete guide to the techniques and equipment of sea kayaking, with advice on gaining experience, understanding your limits, judging potentially dangerous situations, and taking risks.

The Coastal Kayaker's Manual: The Complete Guide to Skills, Gear, and Sea Sense

Sports & Outdoors

WASHBURNE, RANDEL

Water Sports

Globe Pequot Pr

The Coastal Kayaker's Manual: A Complete Guide to Skills, Gear, and Sea Sense

Globe Pequot Press

Kayaking Puget Sound, the San Juans and Gulf Islands: 45 Trips on the Northwest's Inland Waters

Gersten, R. Carey

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

Revised and expanded guide to the best kayaking daytrips and overnighters in an area eminently suited to saltwater paddling, with completely updated information on the original routes from the first edition, plus five new ones. Also includes information on the Cascadia Marine Trail, the only Marine National Recreation Trail in the country3/4how to use it, how to support it. 
The extensive inland waterways of the Pacific Northwest are considered among the best in the world for sea kayaking. Beautiful scenery, intricate and protected waterways, clean and clear water, and abundant marine life define the area. On shore are ample public parklands for camping and exploring. 
These fifty trips in Puget Sound's myriad islands and fjordlike canals and inlets cover the area from Canada's Gulf Islands to the shores of Tacoma, including the fabulous San Juan islands and the unique Hood Canal. Each trip lists details including duration, potential hazard ratings, directions, an explanation of the area's tides and currents, and more. Also included are safety tips and guidelines for kayaking and camping with minimal impact on the environment.

Kayaking Puget Sound, the San Juans, and Gulf Islands: 50 Trips on the Northwest's Inland Waters

The charts in this atlas show scaled arrows marking current speeds and directions at each of the official stations at sequential hours. 
 Use slack times and maximum current speeds at Wrangell Narrows from the NOAA Tidal Current Tables to select the appropriate chart for specific dates and times. 
 An ideal resource for planning routes throughout Southeast Alaskan waters using sequential charts to predict how the current flow over large regions changes with time. 
 For use underway or when planning passages in the future.

Southeast Alaska Current Atlas: From Grenville to Skagway, Second Edition

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Starpath Publications

The Coastal Kayaker: Kayak Camping on the Alaska and B.C. Coast

Pacific Search Press

Kayak trips in Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands

Southeast Alaska current atlas: Grenville Channel to Skagway

Weatherly Press

The Globe Pequot Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by WASHBURNE, RANDEL. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by WASHBURNE, RANDEL