Blog; Thoughts, news & tips
Your Pre-Season Check Up
A careful pre-season check-up on your sea kayak & equipment not only protects your investment — it protects you.
Sun Protection & Layering.
Practical steps you can take to protect yourself from the sun without spending money.
Eco-Friendly Tips For Sea Kayakers
Diving deep into the world of Eco-friendly sea kayaking & uncovering ways to paddle responsibly while enjoying the wonders of the sea.
Winter Shakedown
Winter Shakedown of sea kayaks & equipment ready for the 2023 paddling season. Get to it!
Christmas Gifts For Kayakers?
What to Buy the Man (Or Woman) Who Has Everything?
Cold! What Cold?
Some of the best sea kayaking is available through the winter months, particularly early winter, October through to December.
Trip Planning for Sea Kayakers - Why?
We’ve all seen them, haven’t we? Board shorts & shirtless, barefoot, inflating their stand-up-paddle board or so called inflatable kayak. And there they go; no equipment, no back-up & no idea!
Reality Check!
Can’t get back into your kayak after a capsize? You had better learn to all else it’s overs for you chum!
Buoyancy Aids - What Type?
What buoyancy aid should I get? What colour? How many pockets? It really doesn’t matter, so long as you wear the thing!!
Paddling at Night
Paddling at night, in complete darkness is a wonderful experience, somewhat surreal & completely different to paddling during the day.
Get Yourself Fit!
Levels of obesity, unfitness, lack of strength, lack of motivation is increasing year on year. Kayaking safely requires hours of practicing paddle strokes & recoveries & a basic but good level of fitness & flexibility.
How Hard Can It Be?
Dead hard! Sea kayaking can prove very difficult if you have the wrong attitude and even deadly! And a lot of people do have a deadly attitude towards the sea.
Repair Kits for Sea Kayakers - Why do we need them?
Repair Kits for Sea Kayakers - What are they used for & why do we need them?
Fuel Costs & How You Can Kayak at 2021 Prices!
As NOMAD Sea Kayaking celebrates 17 years of trading we share a short video about how we are holding our prices, unlike everyone else, and how you can help us to keep it that way!
Practice, practice & practice some more!
This may seem obvious but in our experience rarely happens. Spending your heard earned money on training courses is money well spent ONLY if you PRACTICE what your coaches teach you.
Paddle Park that Paddle!
Where & how to store your paddle securely when doing recoveries.
Storage Problems!
Having trouble storing your kayak? Here are FOUR simple ways to store your baby safely.
Use It or Lose It!
Use your buoyancy aid OR you could lose your life!
THIS GIRL CAN!
Ladies, if you're considering Sea Kayaking but put off by the thought of carrying a large sea kayak on your car, don't be. If THIS GIRL CAN, so can you!
Life of a Guide; Fitness
Our Guides have to maintain their fitness to keep them good at what they do. No gyms for Team NOMAD! Join us for a quick look at a fraction of what it takes.
Pooping in the Woods
We encourage low impact camping on all of our wild camp weekends. Here we go through how this works when you really need to go to the loo!
AS Tucas Millaris Bivy and Sestrals Quilt
Review of this ultralight sleeping system for wild camping. Tent & sleeping bags are not the only option!
Stretches for Kayakers - Improve your Flexibility
A quick video showing easy stretches, suitable for doing at home, suggested for kayakers. No offence was taken during the filming of this video!
Clothing for Beginner Kayakers - Layering.
Layering for new kayakers; how to stay warm without spending a fortune!