Product Description

Learn how to use a two-person or tandem sit-on-top kayak for fun with friends & family. This guide will show you the basic principles plus tips on the tandem open-cockpit's great versatility when touring, fishing, surfing, diving, camping and more. Get started the right way, safely. You can do it!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1727245 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 86 pages

From the Publisher
The topic of this book is to address the needs of tandem sit-on-top kayakers. It covers the basic skills necessary to have fun kayaking, safely, in the moderate conditions that average tandem kayakers might encounter.

If you are a solo sit-on-top kayaker, you should read the first book in this series: “Sit-on-top Kayaking, A Beginner’s Guide.” Both books are written to stand alone as beginning instruction to get you out on the water. Each book, however, does contain some unique information of interest to anyone taking up the sport.

From the Author
Sit-on-top kayaks are more popular than ever before. This latest form of kayak is also called “open-cockpit,” “wash-deck” and “open-top.” Their introduction to the paddlesports world has brought the sport to many people who could not or would not paddle a sit-in-side kayak. By choosing these self-bailing models this new breed of paddler avoids the need to learn Eskimo rolling; can paddle free of a spray skirt; and is accomplishing the same goals with the same performance characteristics as traditional kayaks - in some cases surpassing the achievements of decked kayakers and their craft.

From the Inside Flap
The primary reasons people are turning to open-cockpit kayaks are safety, convenience, and comfort.

Open-top kayaks are safer than their decked counterparts. Exposure to cold water is the number one hazard for kayakers, but a sit-on-top paddler can get back onto their kayak from deep water in seconds.

Wash-deck kayaks are also easy to learn and use. Because they are self-bailing there is no need to learn Eskimo rolling. It is a good skill to have, but few learn it well enough to use in true survival situations. Because they are “open” getting in and out of your kayak is a much simpler task. The use of paddle floats for deep-water reentry is almost unheard of.

Sit-on-tops are more comfortable. Paddlers do not have to squeeze into a hole in their boat. Quite a few people are more at ease sitting “on top” rather than “down in.” Because open-top paddlers do not use spray skirts they can have a tall backrest for extra support and comfort. They can even put their feet up and relax, or sit sidesaddle and dangle them in the water.