YackMan.com Serving the Paddling Community Since 2007

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Why A Kayaking Website?

I have created Yackman.com as a way to share my passion for sea kayaking and wilderness, and to tell you about some of the places I have visited. I came to sea kayaking fairly late in life, after early years as a power boater and twenty years as a Great Lakes sailor.

In 1994, my wife Lisa and I were looking for a different kind of vacation experience, when I stumbled on an advertisement for a three day, wilderness kayaking trip off the coast of Maine near Bar Harbor. Neither one of us had been in a kayak before but we gave it a try and loved it. We’ve been kayaking now for another twenty years. I don’t plan to stop until I’m no longer able to paddle!

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Headline! Don Wins 3 mile Kayak Race on Sebastian River in 36 min. 03 sec. or an average speed of 5 mph over the three miles.

Ready to Race!

I'm bragging a little here. I entered the Up the River With a Paddle three mile kayak race on the St. Sebastian River on Saturday and won. I surprised myself! I went faster than I thought I could go over the distance in this race. There were about twelve racers, one of whom could have beaten me but he elected to continue to the five mile distance. He was in a racing kayak while I paddled my trusty old Impex Currituck.