Adventure, Challenge, Lives on Water

• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan
• Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent Joe Glickman
• No Retreat, No Surrender Oscar Chalupsky, Graham Spence
• The Sea Runners Ivan Doig

Health, Fitness

• Waterman 2.0: Optimized Movement for Lifelong, Pain-Free Paddling and Surfing Kelly Starett

Water Skills

• How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea Tristan Gooley
• Navigation,Sea State and Weather - A Paddler's Manual Michael Pardy, JF Marleau, Andrew Woodford and Piper Harris
• The Science of Ocean Waves J Zirker

Surfski

• ICF 2016 Open Water Racing Manual Dawid Mocke Online surfski racing manual (pdf format)
• Surfski with the Pros - Kevin Brunette
  • Surfski with the Pros Surfski.info Review The eBook is also available the iBook store, Barnes and Noble, Amazon
• Other Kevin Brunette Surfski Books

Outrigger Canoe

• Kanuculture
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Most if not all paddling magazines have online versions. But some still offer printed issues. The magazines listed here tend to cover a diverse array of paddle sports although articles about surfskis may be few and far between. We are not including magazines with fairly narrow focus on non surfski types of paddling like SUP or whitewater although SUPers clearly do downwinding also.

• Paddler(UK)
• Paddle World
• Paddling(US & Canada)
• Paddling Life
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