What To Wear, Year Round
Stay fit and enjoy fresh air and sunshine year-round when you’re dressed right. The warm-water season (May 1–Oct 31) is when we run all beginner classes, trips, and rentals. Once you’ve finished our Basics series (or passed our screening) you’re considered intermediate and can keep paddling with us from November through April. Many paddlers…
How To Paddle Solo In Cool Water
Cool and cold water paddling can be a glorious joy! There’s a lack of traffic, unique angle of the light, and a sense you’re a step closer to a primal reality. Fresh air and blue water creates a wonderful heart-nurturing exercise. Connecting to nature via water can ease our souls. Read about the Blue Mind….
How To Lead Your Own Trip
A Guide for Group Leaders, Guides, and Self-Guided Paddlers If you’re leading others (or simply taking responsibility for yourself) on a kayaking trip that goes beyond the protected shore, be thoroughly prepped. You’re navigating tides, wind, distance, emotions, and real risk. This guide outlines how to plan and execute on successful outings in open water….
What To Wear & Bring During Summer
Don’t let cotton underwear ruin your day. If you’re dressed right, you’ll stay dry, warm, and enjoy your time on the water. We often say “dress for immersion” because if you end up in the water, you’ll be safe and not soggy. Here’s how we dress in the summer…based on real-life experience from thousands of…
Why Learn How To Paddle?
Flow: Timeless Transcendence On The Water I have paddled my whole life in wonderful places throughout the world. This includes halfway around Australia, Alaska, Patagonia, The Galapagos Islands, British Virgin Islands, San Juan Islands, Scotland, Maine, SF Bay, Florida Keys, Bahamas, Kauai, Costa Rica, Brittany, Bavaria. Then, there are the thousands of miles in the…
The Skinny On SUP
Here’s a wonderful article on Manhattan Kayak and our SUP tours and history in SUP Magazine by Rebecca Parsons. Hope you enjoy it! -The Manhattan Kayak Team
Meet The Soul of Manhattan Kayak
When I founded Manhattan Kayak Company, I was a kayak snob. I believed that the sleek, sit-in-style kayak that hugged the body like a ski boot, making the boat an extension of my nervous system, plus the natural rhythm and efficiency of a two-bladed paddle, were superior to its canoeing cousins. My belief seemed to…
Kayak or Stand Up Paddleboard?
Which One Should You Choose: Kayak or SUP? If you are brand new to paddling and are conflicted about which paddling discipline to learn, I am here to help. As founder of Manhattan Kayak Co, I have a lot to share on this topic. First, for fitness: In both kayaking and SUP, learn to use…
Do You Know What’s SUP?
What’s SUP? Stand-Up Paddleboarding Will Taylor, editor of SUP The Mag, writes in his forward of Urban Reprieve: “Cities make me feel like a child when I do go -whether it is New York, Bangkok or Rome – I wander around in a daze, my senses indulging in the constant stimulation, my neck craned skyward…”….