For 2012 and beyond, Seawolf is no longer offering guided expeditions. Although it has been great fun and successful over the years, our energy is being refocused into kayak design and building workshops.
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No more Expeditions
Friday, November 25th, 2011Full Circle Kayak Expedition
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Folks, one of our former students and adventurer extraordinaire is going to be headed out on a part-survival, part-kayak trip on the North end of Vancouver Island. Take a look at his project and lend him your support. Seawolf is sponsoring his trip with a new skin-on-frame kayak he just built with us in April. Phoxx was also a student in the primitive skills residential program in summer 2009.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1725701030/full-circle-kayak-expedition
Spring! 25% Off Sale is Over
Monday, March 7th, 2011
This sale is now over, we’ll have another in the fall.
Seawolf is throwing a big (25% off) spring sale in your face with one caveat– Orders won’t be shipped until mid-April. We are not a high volume retailer and so we’ll only be placing a couple of larger orders. It’s a great opportunity to get a really nice drysuit (Level Six makes one of the best) or drytop. All Level Six gear is available, not just the ones listed below, you can see the 2011 Level Six catalog, and the Level Six Retail Prices (Note, prices are in Canadian dollars).
Here’s some gear that’s a fantastic deal– Level Six makes some of the best gear out there, I think of it as the starting point of high-level sea kayak gear (not quite to the level of Kokatat, but almost, and the gear is also much more reasonable in price). Sale ends March 24th.
Skin-on-frame Kayaks for Sale
Monday, October 4th, 2010
My mission is to get as many of you folks out there on the water as possible. For some of you, that means maybe you have to buy a kayak instead of build one! That being said I have lots of skin-on-frame kayaks for sale. Seawolf also produces special commissions, from unique expedition kayaks to higher and lower volumes of existing designs. This winter, look forward to new designs in the works. (more…)
Wintercount Kayak Building in Tucson
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
February is for kayak-builders…in the desert! Kiliii will lead a skin-on-frame kayak workshop in Tucson, AZ, hosted by Raven’s Way wilderness school.
DATES: February 20th -27th (8 days – Sunday to Sunday)
COST: $1300 (includes a 17ft. “Skin”-on-Frame Kayak, Traditional Paddle, camping, and all instruction)
LOCATION: At our 42-acre Nature Sanctuary, Raven’s Nest (only minutes from Patagonia Lake State Park) where you will have access to: our 2000 sq. ft. Nature & Science Discovery Center, solar showers, miles of hiking trails, clean incinerator toilets, and our Stone-age Village! (more…)
Baja Dreamin’
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Seawolf is leading an expedition down to Baja, Mexico for March 2011. We will be working with longtime Baja guide Santiago Berreuta and skin-on-frame expeditioner Daniel of LongBoat ShortBoat.
Paddle with us for eight days in the Sea of Cortez, in some of the most beautiful protected waters in the world, from Puerto Escondido to Agua Verde. (more…)
Kiliii presents at Greenland Week
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Join Seawolf and Kayak Academy for a traditional Greenland kayak skills competition in Seattle. Kiliii will give a slideshow presentation on his 30 day solo journey along the Outside Passage, and talk about the use of skin-on-frame kayaks in subsistence and other ancestral ways of living. Dates are November 5th to 7th, more information at www.kayakacademy.com. (more…)
Demo a Kayak
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Come try out a Skin-On-Frame Kayak! Kiliii will be at the Willamette River from 11am to 1pm on Saturdays doing kayak demos, as well as on request. He will be helping people take ‘test drives’ of the boats and giving some basic Greenland paddling instruction. There’s no better way to find out if a kayak is the one for you without getting in one, making sure it’s comfortable, stable, fast and, well, everything you dream of in a kayak…! Please RSVP by emailing kiliii@seawolfkayak.com or calling 503.877.2SEA (2732) so we know to expect you! (more…)
Soloing the Outside Passage Slideshow
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Free slideshow and talk about my 31 day trip down the Outside Passage at Alder Creek Kayak.
ACA Instructor Training
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
This August, we will be doing American Canoe Association (ACA) instructor training and certification for coastal kayaking! Veteran paddler Greg Weiss will be leading the three-day Instructor Development Workshop, followed by the two-day Instructor Certification.
This is a great course for those who want to develop their skills and become certified to instruct for one of the world’s most respected paddlesports organizations. A bonus to joining the ranks of the ACA instructor team is that you can teach anywhere in the world, be advertised, and be insured! (more…)
Northern California Kayak Workshop
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Northern California: a beautiful place with awe-inspiring kayaking. To date, there’s been no skin-on-frame kayak workshops there. That’s all about to change.
April 24th to May 1st, we are offering a kayak-building workshop in conjunction with the Buckeye Primitive Skills Gathering in Forestville, CA. It’s a gorgeous place, on tribal land, and we’ll have the chance to talk about kayaks, native culture, and then take the boats out for a spin in real water.
Building a kayak in your 11/2008 Portland workshop was one of the best creative experiences of my life, so I encourage others to enroll. This is a project that could change your life. -Val Stricklin
Build what you will love to paddle. Register now and come home with a completed 17′ sea kayak and Greenland Paddle, made with your bare hands in the tradition of the northern pacific rim people. Tuition and materials are $1300 per boat.
Register and find out more »
We’re on the Cover of the SPT!
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Several years ago Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak and I began animating a wooden kayak skeleton with bones of driftwood. That kayak eventually came to life at the Rabbitstick Rendezvous, and became a landmark for primitive skills, one of a very small handful of kayaks built traditionally with animal hides and driftwood since the mid-1900s.
So that this hard-won experience would not vanish, I submitted an article to the Bulletin of Primitive Technology, and it now graces the cover of the Fall 2008 Transportation issue. If you haven’t read the Bulletin, you may want to become a member of the Society of Primitive Technology!
The full article is available on our website here as well.
Dancing Hawk evolves into Seawolf
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Six winters ago Dancing Hawk began its journey to learn and teach the essential skills and wisdom of hunter-gatherer peoples. We have traveled far in that time, incorporating long-term community through our Residential Programs and our Native Ways workshops. We have also re-discovered the empowerment of the skin-on-frame boats as our vehicles in the Pacific Northwest Coast bioregion.
With our new focus centered around the coastal region and kayaks, we’ve changed our name. As Seawolf Kayak & Native Lifeways Center, we hope to bring together the elements of community healing, native lifeways (including primitive skills), and the kayak. In 2010, we have returned to Portland, OR. We will also be searching for a permanent home near Puget Sound or the Willamette Valley. It is my hope that Seawolf Kayak will carry us from an island of hope to a re-imagined landscape of small communities and peaceful lives.
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