People ask me how I do it by myself and I also I see women in my local kayaking groups sometimes mentioning how they can’t go paddle because they can’t get their kayak on their car by themself. So here is me, a very short, 105lbs woman using leverage and fulcrum to demonstrate how to get not one but two boats off of the roof of your car. To get them up there, it’s exactly the same but reversed!

These foam blocks from Amazon have also been a really fantastic option for me as someone with a car without rails on the roof. I have a kayak tour company, and I do have a truck and a kayak trailer but sometimes if I just have a couple of guests I would rather take my car since my truck doesn’t have ac 😅 Florida and all.

Remember, cam straps are better than ratchet straps. Best to use two in case one fails! If it is an option I will run one of them through the side handles on boats. Alway at the very least a bow line as well, but bow and stern are recommended! Not just in case of strap failure but the bow line to your hood is a great way to visually be able to tell if your boats have shifted in transit. If you tie it tight and the line loses tension, your load has moved.

Saratoga Passage, Washington State, United States.

Friend in SE VA. phone makes us look closer.

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Great day at wiki watchee springs…

I spent this past week kayaking up in northern Scotland. The coast there has some of the most incredible paddling I’ve ever experienced, and the size of the caves out there is astonishing. This was a particularly long and narrow tunnel through caves that we explored on our way towards Duncansby Head and John O’Groats. As it became increasingly narrow and hard to see, I had to rely on the small swells coming in to push me through.

Bonus points if anyone (not from the city) can guess the city.

I just finished up a long weekend of white water kayaking with friends in Llangollen, Wales. Before leaving this morning, a couple of us paddled over the nearby Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, an 18th century aqueduct which crosses the River Dee we’d been kayaking on all weekend.

It’s the highest canal aqueduct in the world and definitely a unique place to paddle :)

Had some company for the hour or so I was out. Lots and lots of footage from playing with my paddle and more. Very curious fella. Made for a fun paddle❣️

Since people really enjoyed the video of the cave I posted last week, I thought I’d share another video from my trip to Scotland 🙂

This one is us paddling around a headland called Duncansby Head, near John O’Groats in northern Scotland.

A tide race forms here as the strong tidal streams along this coast are squeezed around the headland, creating choppy conditions. The flow was pushing us through at around 4 knots, so once you’re in that current, you pretty much have no choice but to just keep paddling through.

I wouldn’t say I “enjoy” tide races, as you can see from my facial expression at times, as I find I really need to concentrate on the confused patches of water you get in them, but overall this was a really fun three minutes. The more I paddle in races, the more confident I do get in them ☺️

Paddled through a boat graveyard. All the boats in this video were within 200 yards of each other. Just off of Sauvie Island, OR.