Kayak Day Trip equipments

Notes on short trips

Homeworks before departures:
1) Tidal info
2) wind force
3) Sunset, Sunrise
4) Setup safe-calls
(you are supposed to fax a route plan to the coast guard, I mean, as if.)

Check on:
1) batteries
2) quick-access sugar-bomb

Must-haves:
1) bailing cup/ sponge
2) PFD
3) spray-deck
4) paddle with lanyard
5) paddle float
6) floatation aids
7) Sun screen, sun-glasses, SPF lipstick
8) first aid kit, especially sanitazation and blister treatment plus bandaids
9) space blanket
10) Drinking water (i.e. waterbag)
11) Cell phone or satellite phone
12) emergency food (carbs drink mix, mar bars, etc)
13) tow line
14) Strobe Light
15) Map with floaties
16) Flashlight with extra batteries
17) Matches or Lighter

ought to have:
1) spare paddle
2) EPIRB
3) Signal Flares
4) whistle (a useless piece of weight, in a sea rough enough to warrent emergency communications between paddlers, the small voice of a whistle usually cannot be heard.)
5) Solar panel for charging small units such as cell phones, reverse osm pumps, satellite phones, etc.
6) Shark repellents, even if it's only a tube of shampoo...

Things to work on:
1) sea-anchor
2) rolling
3) transporting casualties
4) re-entry

Luxuries:
1) electric water pump
2) reverse osmosis pump