Editor’s note: This is the first children’s book about sea kayaking we’ve ever read or reviewed, and it’s a winner. Here it is, Susan Conrad’s Inside My Sea of Dreams. The target age for this book is ages 3 to 9. Check it out! Susan Conrad is an adventurer, a writer, a paddler, a public […]
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Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage by Susan Marie Conrad – A Review
Review by Nancy Soares Editor’s note: Susan is an adventurer, writer, educator, and speaker. Her tenacious exploration by sea kayak has fueled her stories and images of the natural world for decades. Her articles and photographs have appeared in Sea Kayaker, Canoe and Kayak, Adventures Northwest, and Figure magazines. Magic and gratitude. That’s what comes […]
History of the Tsunami Rangers Sea Kayak Race – Part 8
Editor’s Note: This is the story of the 1995 race, written by Kent Barber who was introduced to the event by Tom Cromwell, a kayaker from Washington State who had raced before. This was Kent’s first time participating in the event, and he did it justice in his article, which appeared in Bay Currents, the […]
History of the Tsunami Rangers Sea Kayak Race – Part 6
Editor’s note: This is the second article in our Race Series this month. It’s about the 1993 Viking’s Day race. It was published in Bay Currents, the BASK (Bay Area Sea Kayakers) newsletter. We didn’t have a select batch of photos from this particular race so we’ve inserted representative photos from other 90’s races for […]
History of the Tsunami Rangers Sea Kayak Race – Part 5
Editor’s Note: Last May, in honor of the long run of the Tsunami Sea Kayak Race, we published 4 consecutive articles chronicling the beginnings of the race at Rodeo Beach and Pacifica. The last article covered the “Devil’s Dare” race in 1991, which started at Pacifica State Beach and ended at Michael Powers’ house at […]
History of the Tsunami Rangers Sea Kayak Race – Part 3
Editor’s Note: The story of the race continues with this write up by Commander Soares which appeared in the August, 1990 issue of Bay Currents. Some of the photos were pulled from 1989 and 1991 since we couldn’t find enough images from 1990. The Golden Gate Invitational by Eric Soares Five years ago we […]
Tsunami Ranger Retreat 2023
by Steve King The Tsunami Rangers return to their roots! On a glorious warm and sunny weekend the Tsunami tribe gathered for a retreat on the San Mateo Coast and received a marine mammal welcome. As Captain Deb and Paula drove through the Devils Slide tunnel they emerged “as if through a worm hole” to […]
Surf Sirens Gathering 2022!!!
On September 23rd through 25th the Surf Sirens had their first official post-Covid event, and it was a great success. With head instructors Deb Volturno, Melinda Moree, and Jameson Riser and assistants Sally Anderson, Esther Ladwig, and Beth Owen we had a full complement of talent, and there were 12 gung ho students ready to […]
Balance and Stability for Effective Paddle Sports
Editor’s note: In his recent article for Epic Kayaks In Search of Stability: Aging Gracefully With a Wider Surfski Honorary Tsunami Ranger Kenny Howell emphasized balance and stability as two things critical for paddling, especially in a surf ski. These are two things that can fade as we age. As a fitness trainer I’ve seen the impacts […]
Sea Kayak Rescue Training With Skagit Bay Search and Rescue Teams
By Robert Nissenbaum and Graton Gathright Editor’s note: We wrote about Robert and Graton in our recent post on the NSSKA Rescue Rodeo. This month, they’ve put together an article on their training day with a regulation Search and Rescue team from Skagit Bay, WA, a day that went from practice rescues to the real deal. […]
The Black Sea With Crimea and the KGB – A Kayak Adventure
Editor’s Note: We are including this story on our website for two reasons. One, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Two, because it’s a story worth telling and it’s about kayaking in the shadow of Moscow in October, 1995. It was written by Misha Dynnikov, one of the Rangers. A big thanks to Vice […]
Tsunami Ranger Retreat 2.0 – October 2021
Everything changes, and to both survive and thrive, adaptation is imperative. In 2020, Covid 19 brought changes to the Tsunami Rangers, not least in that for the first time in over 30 years, we didn’t hold our annual retreat. That was a bummer, but we adapted. In 2021 a fully vaccinated Ranger crew met in […]
Meet the Rangers! – Cate Hawthorne
Editor’s Note: Thanks so much to all the Rangers who participated in writing this post. Another team effort in the bag! Happy New Year, everyone! Lt. JG Nancy Soares: For years there were no women Rangers. Then John Lull sponsored Deb Volturno, who took her test in 1996. For a long time after that, no […]