For sea and touring kayakers the search for the best sea / touring Buoyancy Aid (aka Personal Floatation Device/PFD/Life Jacket but we will be saying Buoyancy Aid to stay consistent) can be a real challenge. We’ve narrowed it down to our three favorites for our own ‘Best of...

The 2016 Palm Impact arrived today so here are a few of our first impressions…. For the last couple of years the Impact was the premium whitewater option in the Palm range and remains the toughest driest shockcord option from Palm, with the Orbit Deck also being introduced into the range...

Palm’s latest new product arrived with us this week, the Palm Zenith Dry Trouser or Pant which replaces the Neon pant in the line up. The Atom Pants are due hopefully in January. The Zenith’s are a ‘semi dry’trouser made from Palms XP 2.5 layer fabric with a...

We’ve got another “Pete” here this week! Pete only seems to employ people called “Pete” now, very confusing. Any way the latest “Pete”, P3 as he’s now called is a big fan of the new range of whitewater paddles from AT (Adventure Technology) and...

The Yak Apollo Jacket and updated Xipe PFD are the latestAi??bright new pieces of kit to arrive at WWTCC, the first pieces from the 2015 Yak Adventure Touring range of equipment. First up the Xipe PFD, which had a facelift and some extra buoyancy added taking it from 55N to 60N plus some nice...