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All Around Instructional Tips - Kayaking & Canoeing by Kent Ford & Performance Video.                                                     Great Instructional Videos.***A MUST SEE !
Assorted - All this and more (GORP).
Basics - Getting into a kayak, strokes, bracing,roll, safety.
***A MUST SEE !  
Builders Manual, Folding Kayak - An illustrated guide - save lotsa $.
Canoeing:
    1 - Building a birchbark canoe.
    2 - Paddling
    3 - Portaging
Compass Use
Boat repair:
    1 - Info. (West System Epoxy Products, Bay City, MI).
    2 - Fiberglass, kevlar and royalex repair.
    3 - Gel coat repair (Atlantic Kayak Tours).
    4 - Keel strip repair (Atlantic Kayak Tours).
    5 - Info. (Sea Kayaker Magazine).
Greenland Paddling:
    
1 - Greenland Kayak Association / Qaannat Kattuffiat.
   
2 - Lessons learned from Maligiaq Padilla (Greg Stamer).
    
3 - Greenland techniques -
VIDEO CLIPS
   
4 - Carving a Greenland paddle

Kite Kayaking - (CASKE 2000).
Knots and knot tying:
     1 - for paddling
     2
     3
Navigation:
    1 - Basic primer (Katabasis).
    2 - Natural ranges & drifts (Nick Schade, Guillemot Kayaks).
Paddling Techniques:
    3 - Paddling in a straight line (Clarke Bowlen, Lightning Paddles).
Painting a Fiberglass Canoe or Kayak.
Pumping / Bailing - What am I to do with all this water? (P.J.Carter).
Repair
    1 - Polyethylene Repair - Ocean Kayak.
    2 - Royalex Repair - Mohawk Canoe.
Rescue, The All-In - 2 paddlers & 2 boats capsized.
Rescue Techniques:
    1 - 2 paddlers & 2 boats capsized.
    2 - Eskimo rescue.
    1 - Paddlefloat rescue (Urban Eskimo Kayaking).
    2 - Paddlefloat rescue (Mariner Kayaks).
    3 - Rescues that work (Mariner Kayaks).
Rolling:
   
1, 2 - Sweep roll.
Sail Plans - How to use and a sea kayak sail.
Sea Anchor - Used for fishing.
Sea Kayaking Techniques - (NSW Seakayaking Club).
Surfing Basics - Plus surfing rules of the road at Adventure Sports.
Towing:
   
1 - The rafted tow (Urban Eskimo Kayaker).
Whitewater Techniques:
    1 - Boofing, the art of - good stuff!

 

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