Irish Sea Kayaking Association

Individual kayakers can join Canoeing Ireland (CI) at a cost of €30. Kayaking clubs can also affiliate to CI, at a cost of €100 per club. This allows members of affiliated clubs to join CI at a reduced cost of €20. ISKA has been an affiliated club of Canoeing Ireland up until now. Our affiliation is...

The ISKA committee wants to encourage members to upskill and proposes to subsidise members seeking CI Level 3 (L3)/BCU 3* and CI Level 4 (L4)/BCU 4* sea kayaking qualifications. For 2017, the following training subsidies will be available: Members pursuing a CI L3/BCU 3* qualification will be able t...

The ISKA committee started researching and discussing the issue of insurance since July 2016. It was agreed at an early stage that any decision on this issue would be in the hands of the members of ISKA. There are a number of different types of insurance that might be of interest to ISKA members, in...

Hi all,

The old paper membership form has been replaced with a new online membership form. The details of the new membership form can be found here:

http://www.iska.ie/?page_id=116

If you have any difficulties with the form, send an email to iskamembership at gmail.com

Regards,

ISKA committee

I hope you are all looking forward to another eventful year out on the water. The ISKA committee has been busy working on the meets calendar for the coming year, organising training courses and organising the Symposium. We have also been discussing the insurance options open to ISKA in the coming ye...

With a group of paddlers involved in a real rescue, the trip report makes some interesting observations and is worth a read:


Refer to General Section on the forum

http://wiska.ie/forum.html

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Almost there and things are hotting up. Jon Hynes will premiere his Kayak Around Ireland DVD on Friday evening. Justine Curgenven, who most of you will be familiar with and her DVD collection This Is The Sea is our guest speaker on the Saturday evening. The weather gods are even in our favour, with ...

RNLI Raffle Our annual raffle for the RNLI is an important part of the event but can only be as good as the prizes, for which we are a little short this year. If you or your business is in a position to donate a prize, we would really appreciate your help and you might drop a quick email to iskasymp...

We are delighted to be able to confirm our Guest Speaker for the Saturday night is Justine Curgenven, familiar to most of us from the video series This Is The Sea. http://www.cackletv.com/about/justines-expeditons/ Some of the great Sea Kayaking instructors who will be attending this year include: -...

Hi All, I am writing to let you know that Jon will be our new chairperson. The voting closed on Friday, the votes were counted and verified and I include the numbers below. I would like to thank Chris and Jon in particular for putting themselves forward for the position and also everyone who took pa...