Seawolf Kayak started seven years ago as a wilderness guiding and primitive skills school. Being coastal people, we evolved into a kayak-centric organization with a wilderness bent!

Today we dedicate ourselves to teaching skin-on-frame kayak-building and guiding kayak tours. We specialize in sea kayaks, expeditions, living off the land and sea, and helping others live happy and fulfilled lives!

Who We Are

Kiliii Yu- Owner and Principal Guide

Kiliii started playing in the ocean as a wee lad, and aided by generous helpings of seafood, has never forgotten his connection to the sea and all the waters. He began paddling sea kayaks in college, which eventually led to him to paddling the coast of Vancouver Island for thirty days by himself (and the whales, porpoises, bears, etc…) Kiliii did in fact survive the trip, and now he loves taking other people to the most beautiful places on earth by kayak.

Kiliii loves to design and build skin-on-frame boats. It’s his belief that a kayak is an extension of a paddler, transforming one into a selkie on the water. He spends much of his time testing and improving his kayak designs under real conditions.

Kayaks aside, he enjoys the teaching and practice of primitive and wilderness skills. Kiliii teaches at the Rabbitstick and WinterCount Rendezvous, the world’s largest primitive skills gatherings, each year. There you can find him working on recurved bows or teaching coastal wilderness survival.

As an active musician, Kiliii also plays violin and sings with his project, Kiliii Fish, in Portland. You can find him anywhere music and water collide.