Sit-On-Top Kayaking: A Beginner's Guide

by Tom Holtey

Book Overview

In just 96 pages this new paperback introduces the beginner to their craft, its features, and the equipment needed to best enjoy the sport. It covers all the basic strokes and entry techniques. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966865502
• ISBN13: 9780966865509
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: GeoOdyssey Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Perfect book for the complete newbie!

I found the presentation and format of this book provided a good, quick, and easy read. Simple diagrams and explanations address those questions you feel too dumb to ask but probably should ask. It is a book I find myself coming back to re-reading items after I have tried them out on the water. This is the book to buy for sit-on-top newbies.

A Good Basic Buy

I'm still a bit new to SOT kayaking and I found that this book offered some excellent information and suggestions - the checklists were very helpful when I began equipping my kayak. Really solid, basic information!

Read This One First...

I wish Tom Holtey's "Sit-On-Top Kayaking" had been in print when I started ocean kayaking at age 55, nearly ten years (and 4 or 5 kayaking books) ago. Today, I'm grateful that it IS available as a packable, readable reference that always reminds me of the basics that are so important to beginners and veteran kayakers alike. Don't get me wrong - the books then available were good - just overweight with procedures I simply couldn't apply. This book delivers what it says on the cover - A Beginner's Guide - with clarity and directness, thanks to Mr. Holtey's lean text and Mr. Altman's line drawings. After several years of increasingly challenging coastal paddles, I have found that it is indispensable.

A must have book for all levels of kayakers

Tom Holtey has had several decades of experience in kayaking and it shows. The information in this unique book is an easy read, but by no means trivial. The obvious target is the beginner, but there are many details that the experienced kayaker will find useful. I have personally paddled with Mr. Holtey, and I can vouch that he knows his stuff, and practices what he preaches! If you are considering kayaking, there are other books on the subject are very detailed and you may want to purchase them. However, if you want a book that distills all of the information into a concise form that you will remember when you are out there in the awesome blue world that all kayakers know and love, then get this book.

A "must-have" for all beginner kayakers.

I read the book as an advanced beginner, and I still learned much from Mr. Holtey's excellent directions. It was like having a personal kayak instructor.