Site Directory
Inside BASK
Outfitters
Greater San Francisco Bay Area
- Adventure
Sports - Santa Cruz, offers classes and trips
- Aquan Sports
- San Carlos, multiple water sports shop
- Blue Waters Kayaking - Outfitter on Tomales Bay
- Cal
Adventures - Sea Kayaking classes at UC Berkeley
- California
Canoe and Kayak (CCK) - Outfitter in Oakland's Jack London Square (on the SF Bay) and in Pillar Point Harbor (in Half Moon Bay), offers classes and trips
- City
Kayak - At Pier 38 on The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco
- Eskape!
Sea Kayaking - Santa Cruz, specializes in high quality
instruction including ACA instructor certification
- Golden Gate Kayaking - Offers
classes on San Francisco Bay, roll sessions on the Peninsula, and BCU
training
- 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 Mendocino - offers tours and kayak surfing classes out of Van Damme State Park on the Mendocino coast
- Liquid Fusion Kayaking -
Fort Bragg - offers classes and trips on the Mendocino coast
- Monterey Bay Kayaks - Monterey Bay and Elkhorn Slough, offers sea kayaking rental and instruction, and worldwide sea kayaking expeditions
- Oakland
All-Craft - A distributor for the British P&H Capella and
other boats
- Outback
Adventures - San Jose and Larkspur, offers classes, rentals, and retail sales
- Point Reyes Outdoors - offers classes and naturalist-led kayakaing tours on Drakes Estero and Tomales Bay
- Recreational
Equipment, Inc. (REI) - Berkeley and other locations on the west coast
- Sea Trek - Sausalito, offers
trips, classes and rentals
Elsewhere
- Alaska
Kayak School - Homer, Alaska. Offers classes, trips, rentals
- Alaska
Vistas - a guide/outfitter on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast
Alaska.
- Alder
Creek - offers classes and trips in Bend and
Portland, Oregon
- Anadyr
Adventures - Valdez, Alaska. Day or multi day naturalist guided trips in spectacular Prince William Sound.
- Aqua
Adventures - San Diego, offers trips and instructions
- Atlantic
Sea Kayaking - offers instruction and tours from their base in southwest Ireland
- Body
Boat Blade - 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 Norway
- Coastal
Waters Recreation - has maps of British Columbia with tidal currents, campsites and many other features of interest to kayakers
- Dayley Kayak Adventures - Offers tours and rentals in Union Bay on Vancouver Island
- Desert River Outfitters - Bullhead City, Arizona, offers trips on the lower Colorado River
- Boulder City Outfitters - offers trips down the scenic Colorado River in the Black Canyon
- 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)
- Explorers'
Corner> - takes small groups of paddlers to Tahiti,
Turkey, Portugal, Greenland and other places. Trips range from
exploratory style adventures (typically very demanding) to peaceful
relaxing adventures. They also provide custom trips
- Folding
Kayak Adventures will ship a Feathercraft kayak to you anywhere in the world
- Giant Kid Adventures
- offers expedition support in Sierra lakes near
Bear Valley, CA, ranging from full services to luxurious canoe support
- 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 for details and the BASK promotional code
- Kayak
Solomons - operates from the Uepi Island Resort, Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
- Miramar
Adventures - 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
- New Zealand Kayaking offers superb sea kayaking, caving, abseiling and team building in Auckland, New Zealand
- Orcas
Unlimited Charters of Kodiak, LLC - 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 - Sea kayaking trips in British Columbia
- Paddle
Sports of Santa Barbara - offers classes and trips at the Channel Islands and a 10% discount (excluding paddles) to BASK members. Contact Mark Hyatt for details
- Pangaea
Adventures - runs sea kayaking tours in Prince William Sound, Alaska
- Skeena Valley Expeditions - offers sea kayaking and rafting safaris in Northwest British Columbia
- 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 - sea kayak trips to Baja and Vancouver Island
- Sea Quest Expeditions - sea kayaking and whale watching
- Shearwater
Adventures - offerstours, 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
- Fiji Sea Kayaking - tropical and polar kayaking specialist operating sea kayak tours in Fiji, Turkey, Vanuatu, Antarctica, Amazon,
Greenland, High Arctic, Australia and Tonga
- Southwind
Kayak Center - Irvine, California offers classes
and trips
- Spirit
of the West Adventures - tours in the realm of the
killer whales and mothership expeditions around Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- TerraSanta
Kayak Expeditions - trips and classes in the Mediterranean shores of
Israel, Cyprus and Turkey, the Red Sea, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead
Sea
- Tex's
Riverways - outfitting services on the Colorado and Green Rivers in Utah
- Union
Bay Diving - Dive shop in Union Bay on Vancouver Island
- Water
Walker - outfitter that offers trips in central Maine
- 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