Kahlyn is one of our long standing Tuesday Night Race paddlers, and has been racing since 2001, and with her daughter Anika since she was just three years old! We caught up with Kahlyn to find out a bit more about their racing career… Deep Cove Kayak: Hi Kahyln! Thanks for chatting with us, can […]
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So, as promised we are going to be talking to some racers about what it was like to do their very first race. The first person we’re going to talk to is Sam Roper, who did her very first race last week on a stand up paddleboard in the Lone Rock Return Race! Amy: So […]
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When I finally got to meet Kevin Vallely after hearing about his various exploits over the last few years, I was surprised at how understated he was! Most of the expeditioners, explorers and real pioneers I’ve had the privilege to meet through working in this industry have had somewhat of an ego, but for all […]
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Deep Cove Kayak’s Penguin Plunge is now a longstanding Deep Cove tradition, and is now in its 35th Year! We will be gathering along with hundreds of Panorama Park on New Year’s day who are willing to throw themselves into the Ocean to welcome in the New Year. One of our HUGE sponsors for this […]
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The ISA SUP World Championships are nearly here, and it’s time for Deep Cove Kayak Ops Manager Mike Darbyshire and the rest of Team Canada to head off to FIJI…are we jealous!?!? We are, but we’re also SUPER stoked to support them as much as we can! We caught up with Mike the day before […]
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Last week I had the privilege of catching up with Janet Warren, one of the members of the long-paddling Dragon Boat team, the North Shore Dragon Busters. This team is somewhat different to the other Dragon Boat teams we have, as all members are breast cancer survivors. In every other way, they are no different […]
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Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga combines two sports that, at first glance, look like they shouldn’t go together at all! Kristy Wright-Schell has been teaching this tricksy looking combo for over 5 years now, and is starting classes in Deep Cove tomorrow, so we wanted to chat to her to find out all about it and […]
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A Quest is surely something that knights of the realm went on back in the time of King Arthur, right? In which case, arise Sir Jason of Bennett! Deep Cove local Jason was one of ten stand up paddleboarders taking part in the Yukon River Quest (the YRQ), the longest paddling race in the world […]
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Evan Gerbrecht is a determined and focussed guy. We’ve known him for a few years now, as he started stand up paddle boarding with our DART junior SUP team when it first started. Since then, he has shown his passion for the sport and dedication to improvement through consistently getting great results in racing, and […]
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One side of our operation that we don’t really spend a lot of time talking about is our fantastic Dragon Boat teams! With the Concord Pacific DB Festival coming up on 17-19 June we thought it would be great to catch up with a couple of paddlers from the Deep Cove Wave Crashers, and see […]
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There’s been a glut of these posts lately, but we are always so excited to talk to our paddlers we just can’t help it! This week we have had the tremendous pleasure to have Kenny Howell come visit us and share some of his wisdom on Epic, on surfskiing, and on life in general. I […]
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This week we are merging our Meet the Paddlers and Sponsors by talking to Linas Antanavicius. Linas has been paddling with us in the Tuesday Night Races (TNR) since 2012, and this year decided to step up and become a GOLD SPONSOR! Thanks for talking with us Linas – let’s learn a bit more […]
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Anjulie has been working with us for four years now as the Sales & Marketing Manager for Muscle Mlk – one of our Silver Sponsors for Tuesday Night Races (TNR). She LOVES paddling so we thought she would be able to give great insight into her own paddling experiences and what it’s like being a […]
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If you haven’t heard about it before, the Penguin Plunge is a longstanding Deep Cove tradition. According to the North Shore News this will be the 34th year that people have gathered in Panorama Park on New Year’s day to throw themselves into the ocean. We met with one of our regular paddlers who is […]
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There are a number of people who paddle with us that everyone, just EVERYONE, in the whole shop knows and loves. The Slack family – dad Frazer, mum Jennie and 8 year old Rhys – are definitely some of our favourites! Their enthusiasm for paddling has taken them through from getting Season’s Passes for the […]
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As the date for the 2016 Canadian Surfski Champs has recently been set (July 16th, 2016 if you haven’t caught it yet), and with a few local representatives at the ICF Ocean Racing World Champs in Tahiti going on right now, the time is ripe for a post about the 2015 race earlier this summer. […]
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So far I’ve had the privilege of talking to a Tuesday Night Racer, and a Women on Water paddler, so this week I thought I’d take it one step beyond and talk to a paddler who does both! I talked to Lisa Macleay as she was getting ready for Race Night. Deep Cove Kayak: Hey […]
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As a follow up to our first ‘Meet Our Paddlers’ feature with John Joyce which you can read here, we decided that John’s wife Diane would be a great second choice! Diane came in to talk to me to talk about what it is that inspires her about kayaking. Deep Cove Kayak: Hi Diane, tell […]
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