Sit-on-Top Kayaking: A Beginner's Guide

An essential, easy to use book for an easy to use kayak. Learn how to use sit-on-top kayaks for touring, fishing, camping, surfing, diving, exercise and just for fun. Get educated on roof racks, safty, rescues and how to choose the kayak best for you. Sit-on-top kayaking is fun, safe and easy to learn. No Eskimo rolling because you can't get trapped upside down! No flooding because they are self bailing! Start off the right way with basic knowledge and skills. Anyone can do it! For almost eighteen years Tom Holtey has been helping the novice adventurer get out on the water. He self published this little book to make sure it could do just that for you, and readers agree it's working!

About the Author:

Tom Holtey has eighteen years experience in the paddle sports industry with a foundation in canoeing and traditional sea kayaking. He has been involved in the sit-on-top field for the past eight years pioneering this new branch of the sport. An alumni of N.O.L.S. and trained and practiced in wilderness trip planning - from the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine to the tropical coastlines of the Hawaiian Islands - he has lead and taught the novice adventurer under many varied conditions. It was while teaching courses in sit-on-top kayaking at the University of Hawaii that much of this book began to take form. Holtey also managed a kayak retail store in Honolulu and worked with members of the local kayak club, Hui Wa'a Kaukahi, where many developments in the sport have been made. He is currently touring kayak symposia nation-wide and working on more projects to promote sit-on-top kayaking in order to educate those entering this growing sport.