Some of the international big guns may be missing but New Zealand's top kayaking talent have clear goals heading into the first world cup of the season.

Two Olympic hopefuls have vowed to continue their legal battle to represent New Zealand in kayaking.

The desire burns strongly within Lisa Carrington as the champion paddler embarks on another European campaign this weekend.

Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor has smashed the world record for a 24-hour solo kayak journey this morning.

A former Major League pitcher visits Greymouth to find out what happened on a rafting trip 17 years ago.

Two men plucked from rough seas near Taieri Island yesterday after clinging for hours to an upturned kayak are ''lucky to be alive'', their rescuer says.

Olympic kayakers Mike Dawson and Luuka Jones will kick-start their Rio campaign at the canoe slalam New Zealand national championships in Manawatu this weekend.

Searching has resumed this morning for a Rotorua woman missing on the Kaituna River after she became separated from her kayaking companions.

The Westport man who died while kayaking off Tauranga Bay last month has today been named by police.

Lisa Carrington eased to her seventh straight K1 200m title on the final day of the Canoe Racing New Zealand national championships at Lake Karapiro yesterday.

The body of an English tourist who collapsed while on a kayaking trip has been recovered by police.

Anne Cairns is a veteran of a range of paddling sports. But at the canoe racing national championships next week she'll take the first step towards achieving Olympic qualification.

A kayaking Anglican bishop is about halfway through a 250km water pilgrimage from Auckland to the Bay of Islands.

A kayaker who drowned in a New Zealand river at the weekend was pictured in front of the raging water just hours before he lost his life.

Long-distance kayaker Scott Donaldson has never appreciated having a shave or a hot pie so much, but it's being able to move around in more than a metre of space that he's enjoying most.

Scott Donaldson says he'll be 'irked for a long, long time' after he was rescued from high seas kilometres from completing a 3-month odyssey across the Tasman Sea in a kayak.

A kayaker attempting the first solo crossing across the Tasman has drifted further away from the Taranaki coast overnight as rough seas got even worse.

A transtasman kayaker attempting to make landfall in New Zealand is content bobbing in the open ocean while he waits for wild weather to abate.

After a gruelling three-month journey, transtasman kayaker Scott Donaldson faces a battle against the wind to reach New Zealand.

Kevin Pennell etched his name into the folklore of the Waihi Nugget Multisport Festival recently when he produced a superhuman effort because "he didn't want to let his team mates down".

In the past year Sam Clark has been a cyclist, a marathon kayaker, an ultra-marathoner and a frustrated patient.