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Local outfitters in the greater San Francisco Bay Area
- Adventure Sports in Santa Cruz offers classes and trips.
- Aquan Sports Multiple water sports shop in San Carlos, offers BASK members 15% off and is looking for guides and instructors.
- Blue Waters Kayaking outfitter on Tomales Bay.
- Cal Adventures Sea Kayaking classes at UC Berkeley.
- California Canoe and Kayak (CCK) an outfitter in Oakland's Jack London Square (on the SF Bay) and in Pillar Point Harbor (in Half Moon Bay), offer classes and trips.
- California Kayak Academy offers classes and trips for beginning kayakers.
- California Rivers Kayak Store in Windsor is doing flatwater guided kayak trips throughout Sonoma County.
- Cascade Outfitters outfitter on Tomales Bay.
- City Kayak at Pier 38 on The Embarcadero right here in San Francisco.
- Current Adventures offer a wide range of courses and trip opportunities for paddlers of all disciplines and skill levels.
- Eskape! Sea Kayaking in Santa Cruz specializes in instruction including ACA instructor certification.
- Golden Gate Kayaking offers classes on San Francisco Bay, roll sessions on the Peninsula, and BCU trainings.
- Half Moon Bay Kayak Co., Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, offers classes, expeditions to Honduras and Baja's Pacific coast, local trips, sales and rentals.
- Kayak Connection offers sea kayaking rental and instruction in Santa Cruz and Moss Landing, sea kayaking tours of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay and Tomales Bay, and worldwide sea kayaking expeditions to destinations like Fiji, Palau, and Chile.
- Monterey Bay Kayaks an outfitter in (guess which bay).
- Noyo Pacific Outfitters in Fort Bragg has the best prices on sit-on-top kayaks in California.
- Oakland All-Craft is a distributor for the British P&H Capella and other boats.
- Off The Beach kayak sales and rentals in Stinson Beach. Call Scott Tye at (415) 868-9445.
- Outback Adventures in San Jose and Stevens Creek Reservoir offers classes, rentals, and retail sales.
- Outdoor Adventures at UC Davis.
- Outdoors Unlimited RIP :-(
- Point Reyes Outdoorsoffers naturalist-led Kyakaing Tours of Drakes Estero and Tomales Bay that explore one of the last unspoiled shorelines on the west coast.
- Riptides and Rapids RIP, Jim have fun on your newly free weekends!
- Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) in Berkeley and other locations on the west coast.
- Sanctuary Cruises in Monterey does whale watch tours and has a strong conservation, education and research attitude.
- Sea Trek Ocean Kayaking Center in Sausalito.
- Tamal Saka Tomales Bay Kayaking.
Outfitters outside the greater Bay Area
- Abel Tasman Kayaks in New Zealand offer many trips in this beatiful part of the world.
- Alaska Canoe and Kayak Base. Paddle Alaska in their British kayaks.
- Alaska Vistas is a guide/outfitter on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.
- Alder Creek offers classes and trips in Bend and Portland, Oregon
- Anadyr Adventures located in Valdez, Aklaska, invite you for a day or multi day naturalist guided adventure in spectacular Prince William Sound.
- Anglesey Sea & Surf Center courses and expeditions in North Wales.
- Aqua Adventures in San Diego offers trips to Baja and the Black Canyon.
- Atlantic Sea Kayaking offers instruction and tours from their base in southwest Ireland.
- Baidarka Boats - will ship a Feathercraft, Klepper or Nautiraid to you anywhere in the world.
- Body Boat Blade on Orcas Island offers classes and trips.
- Central Coast Kayaks just south of San Luis Obispo offers classes and tours.
- Channel Islands Kayak Center offers classes and tours and a 10% discount to BASK members. Contact Richard Arnold sales@cikayak.com for details.
- Coastal Odyssey in Northern Norway, Arctic paddling and Adventure Travel in North Norway.
- Coastal Waters Recreation has maps of British Columbia with tide currents, campsites and many other features of interest to kayakers.
- Costalba Expeditions is a Costa Rica adventure travel company providing outdoor recreation packages specializing in sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking and rafting. Costalba also provides private trips.
- Costa Rica Wild Fishing is a Costa Rican kayak fishing guide serivce, "one of the best hot fishing spots according to the IGFA world records associations".
- Desert River Outfitters in Bullhead City, Arizona offers trips on the lower Colorado River.
- Downriver Outfitters offers trips down the scenic Colorado River in the Black Canyon.
- Earthquest Adventure Travel offers sea kayaking trips to Alaska, Venezuela and Patagonia.
- Ecosummer Expeditions offers wilderness expeditions to the Queen Charlotte Islands, Johnstone Strait and Gulf Islands in British Columbia.
- Escondido Trex has trips in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula (home to Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks, considered the 2nd most bio-diverse place in the world according to National Geographic Magazine).
- Explore! Charters has adventures from various locations around the BC Coast.
- Explorers' Corner takes small groups of paddlers to Tahiti, Turkey, Portugal, Greenland with additional adventures planned for Indonesia, Tasmania, Galapagos, Zanzibar, and Antarctica. The trips range from exploratory style adventures (typically very demanding) to peaceful relaxing adventures. They will also provide tailored adventures for groups that want to travel to a specific destination.
- Exuma Adventure Center offers eco-friendly sea kayaking expeditions in the Exuma Cays (Islands) which stretch from about 35 miles Southeast of Nassau, Bahamas.
- Folding Kayak Adventures will ship a Feathercraft kayak to you anywhere in the world.
- Gabriola Cycle and Kayak in British Columbia.
- Giant Kid Adventures offers expedition support in Sierra lakes near Bear Valley, CA, ranging from full services to luxurious canoe support.
- Island Excursions offers Alaskan sea kayaking adventures through Fredrick Sound.
- Kayak Academy (founded by George Gronseth) in Seattle WA, offers classes and trips in the San Juan Islands.
- Kayak Kaua'i Outbound outfitter on the Hawaii island of Kaua'i.
- Kayak Shed in Hood River, OR sells kayaking gear and offers BASKers 15% off all gear except boats. Email Kate at Kayak Shed dot com for details and the BASK promotional code.
- Kayak Solomons operates from the Uepi Island Resort, Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands.
- Miramar Adventures trip outfitter for sea kayaking and whale watching tours in Baja California, Mexico.
- Mountain Travel Sobek offers sea kayaking trips to Vietnam, Costa Rica, Alaska, Panama, Baja, Greenland, etc.
- Nantahala Outdoor Center outdoor adventure in North Carolina
- New Zealand Kayaking offers superb sea kayaking, caving, abseiling and team building in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Orcas Unlimited Charters of Kodiak, LLC, is an ecotourism outfitter based in Kodiak, Alaska, offering sea kayak tours for day trips and expeditions throughout the Kodiak Archipelago.
- Ottawa Valley Kayak near Quebec offers lessons and camping trips.
- Pacific Northwest Expeditions.
- Paddle Sports of Santa Barbara offers classes and trips out at the Channel Islands and a 10% discount (excluding paddles) to BASK members. Contact Mark Hyatt MarkH@paddlesportsofsantabarbara.com for details.
- Paddling.Net provides canoeing and kayaking info.
- Pangaea Adventures runs sea kayaking tours in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
- Rivers and Oceans offer sea kayaking and rafting safaris in Northwest British Columbia. Tours include Tatshenshini, Johnstone Strait, Chilko-Chilcotin-Fraser, Babine-Skeena and the Alaskan Coast.
- Rutabaga Paddlesports kayak retailer in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Sea & Adventures kayaking the Sea of Cortez, Loreto Marine Park and whale watching Magdalena Bay.
- Sea Kayak Adventures offer sea kayak trips to Baja and Vancouver Island.
- Sea Kayak Italia - Elba Island in the Mediterranean Sea near Italy.
- Sea Quest Expeditions "traverse the legendary whale retreats in the proper seasons: orcas in the San Juan Islands, humpbacks in Alaska, and both grays and blues along the Baja coasts."
- Shearwater Adventures offers sea kayak tours, classes and sales in the San Juan Islands.
- Solstua West, on Rendezvous Island in British Columbia, is geared towards kayakers who enjoy the outdoors but want to experience nature in comfort.
- South Coast Outfitters offer kayak tours of Jamaica, tailored to the environmentally and socially aware traveller seeking an alternative to the glitz of the big resorts.
- Southern Sea Ventures tropical & polar kayaking specialist operating sea kayak tours in Fiji, Turkey, Vanuatu, Antarctica, Amazon, Greenland, High Arctic, Australia and Tonga.
- Southwind Kayak Center in Irvine, California offers classes and trips.
- Spirit of the West Adventures. Kayaking tours in the realm of the killer whales and mothership expeditions around Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
- TerraSanta Kayak Expeditions is the only operator of sea kayak expeditions and courses in this region, which includes the Mediterranean shores of Israel, Cyprus and Turkey, the Red Sea, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea.
- Tex's Riverways provides outfitting services on the Colorado and Green Rivers in Utah.
- Union Bay Dive and Kayak rents kayaks in Union Bay on Vancouver Island.
- Water Walker is an outfitter that offers trips in central Maine.
- West Coast Expeditions to the wild places of Kyuquot on the wild west coast of northern Vancouver Island.
- Wilderness Scotland, inspiring adventures in the wild places of Scotland.
- Wilderness Travel. Sea kayaking in Alaska, Baja, Chile, Fiji, Palau, etc.
- Wildheart Adventures offers a wide variety of different sea kayaking tours on Vancouver Island.
- Yak Expediciones offers sea kayaking trips in Chile and Argentina.