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.

Lisa Carrington has suffered a surprise defeat at the second kayaking World Cup of the season in Racice, Czech Republic.

Lisa Carrington will head to the second World Cup canoe sprint in Racice, Czech Republic next week having received confirmation in Milan last weekend that her form is good and the advantage she has over her rivals remains intact.

Jane Martin and her team have been counting down to next weekend's Marlborough Sounds portage kayak race for some time.

A kayaker trying to traverse "car-sized boulders" on a trip in the eastern Bay of Plenty sparked a helicopter call-out after slipping and falling into a river.

As a strong current dragged his kayak further out to sea, Philipp Cartier's freezing fingers fumbled for the emergency light he hoped would get a helicopter's attention.

A father and son have been found safe and well this morning after spending a night in a at the base of a cliff following a kayaking trip that went wrong off the Canterbury coast.

Hauraki Adventurer and documentary maker Gus Roxburgh shares what he loves about our closest national park, the Hauraki Gulf.

The signs are encouraging but the proof will come on the water at this week's world championships in Germany.

Auckland's coastal waters are perfect for kayaking as Elisabeth Easther discovered on a recent visit to Te Ara Moana - The Sea-Going Pathway.

Paddle your way and around the City of Sails.