Kayak The Mystic Waters is a vivid account of sea kayaking journeys in southeastern Ct and RI, including:Adventurous trips in beautiful waterside surroundings.Colorful local histories, photos and charts.Helpful advice on getting started in kayaking.Convenient put-in locations.This book is intended for paddlers and water sport enthusiasts of all levels. Visitors to the region and armchair travelers will also find it of interest.

This is the instruction manual for building the Mystic River Tandem canoe design by Nick Schade at Guillemot Kayaks. It does not include the plans themselves.These photo-intensive instructions guide you step-by-step through the process of building a cedar strip canoe. While intended for the Mystic River Tandem design, they are highly applicable to any strip-built canoe. Starting from cutting the forms, setting them up, the manual takes you through the stripping of the hull including shaping and fitting strips. We then proceed through fairing and sanding to fiberglass with epoxy resin. Gunwales and lightweight strip-planked decks are constructed and fitted. Gunwales are made and installed. The boat is finished with more sanding and fiberglassing.Traditional Wood Strip Canoe The Mystic River is a tidal estuary in southeast Connecticut. Starting in Old Mystic runs through the pretty seaport town of Mystic, home to the Mystic Seaport Museum, out to Fishers Island Sound. It makes for a beautiful scenic paddle from quiet, narrow stream to busy open water. The Mystic River Tandem is designed to be a comfortable and e cient canoe to see the sights along this lovely waterway.Features* 17 Feet (5.2 meters) Long* 34 Inches (86 centimeters) Wide* Classic Recurved Stem* Efficient Hull Shape* Good for Rivers, Ponds and Lakes * Day Trips and Light TouringPlans available from Guillemot-Kayaks.com

The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat Strip-planking is a popular method of amateur boat construction, but until now there has never been a book that showed how to use it for more than one type of boat. Author Nick Schade presents complete plans for three boats of different types (canoe, kayak, and a dinghy) and shows you step-by-step how to build them. Written for all amateur builders, the book covers materials, tools, and safety issues.

Although books on strip building canoes abound, this is among the first to adapt the technique to crafting attractive, functional kayaks. Using high-quality, computer-generated illustrations and photographs to explain key techniques, the book provides complete plans and measurements for three different kayaks: 1) A simple solo craft for beginners, 2) A high-performance solo kayak for intermediate paddlers, and 3) A tandem design for two paddlers. With its easy-to-follow guidance and instructions, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak makes top-notch kayaks accessible to budget-minded paddlers.

Explore the oceans of the mind by SCUBA diving into the sea! Join Vanessa as she learns the art of Mystic SCUBA from Samvara, a SCUBA diving Buddhist monk. This magical journey chronicles Vanessa's initiation into a world of power and mystical secrets beneath the sea. Mystic SCUBA illuminates the far reaches of the human mind. Through Sam the monk's teachings, the author learns about breathing and relaxation, the health benefits of air and water in SCUBA, aquatic meditation techniques, ocean totems, and places of power, culminating in a direct experience of Enlightenment. These powerful teachings of mysticism and self discovery will transform divers and non-divers alike.

Offering over 370 miles of flat-water creeks or rivers and 35 ponds or lakes, this guide provides a fun way to explore the beautiful Finger Lakes region of new York.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it. In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships. Everything Under—a debut novel whose surreal, watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fen—is a daring, moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung.