From Paul Caffyn's solo circumnavigation of Australia to the present day, this is the global record of serious expedition sea kayaking. Real journeys. Real distances. Real people. Plus the practical guides to plan your own.

"To qualify to be featured on this website, your trip would need to be something reasonably significant."
From the Antarctic Peninsula to the high Arctic, the British Isles to Patagonia, the Inside Passage to Bass Strait - seven world regions, decades of journeys.
The southernmost frontier of expedition kayaking. South Georgia, the Antarctic Peninsula, the Falklands.
Read region →Greenland, Ellesmere, the Bering Strait. Ice, polar bears, months above the tree line.
Read region →Britain and Ireland circumnavigations. The North Sea. Iceland. Norway. Faroes.
Read region →The Inside Passage, Alaska, the Channel Islands of California, Baja, the Great Lakes.
Read region →Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, the Falklands, Brazil. Wind. Tide. Cape Horn.
Read region →Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Bass Strait, the Tasman. Where modern expedition kayaking found its scale.
Read region →The big water. Trans-Atlantic. Pacific. Tasman. The expeditions that test what's possible.
Read region →A starting point - the trips that defined the discipline. Click through to read each story.
New Zealand South Island - first solo circumnavigation
New Zealand North Island + Cook Strait + Stewart Island
Great Britain - first kayak circumnavigation
Australia - first solo kayak circumnavigation
Japan - first solo circumnavigation
UK & Ireland - first solo circumnavigation
This is the editorial home of the modern sea kayak expedition tradition. Curated since 2004. No filler, no clickbait.
Going Solo. Risk assessment. Cold water survival. Food planning. The actual practice of expedition kayaking, distilled into the topics that matter.
A simple form. No login required. You send us the details, photos, story - we review and add to the chronology. This is how the record grows.
Recent posts, kayaker profiles, gear opinions and historical pieces.
Baldvin Kristjansson tipped us off about two Danish and German expedition paddlers whose Greenland work has flown under the wider community's radar.
A short, ordered, opinionated list of what actually keeps expedition kayakers alive across decades of paddling.
A reader pointed us at a Sizewell Beach memorial that commemorates an extraordinary wartime kayak escape across the North Sea. Worth knowing.
Sean Morley once asked this question of his own work. We've used a version of his answer as the editorial criterion since.
A short defence of skegged kayaks in the era of rudder-everything-else.
Paul Caffyn's kayaks Isadora and Lalaguli sit in two maritime museums on opposite sides of the world. Both are worth a visit.