Zegul Kayaks
Zegul have provided the team with personalised Arrow Empower Kayaks, these will be our work horses and will become as much a part of us as our own legs. Read More About our Custom Kayaks here
http://zegul.taheoutdoors.com/ze_en/
Lendal North America Paddles
Lendal NA will be providing paddles to give us the drive to accomplish this immense task.
Kokatat
Kokatat are providing us with custom drysuits, PFD’s and base layers for our mission.
Inreach Canada
This impressive two way Satellite Communicator will be our safety net, allowing us to track our voyage and share the journey with the world live and in archive (view our map here), but also allowing us to receive up to date weather forecasts by text message and being one of our emergency location devices if things go wrong.
Read about our use of this device on our expedition here http://svalbard.worldwildadventure.com/inreach-explorer-reveiw/
Watershed
To keep our rifles and camera gear dry during our expedition, we will be using Watershed drybags.
Fresh As
Fresh As are a New Zealand company specializing in freeze dried fruits. They are sponsoring us a huge supply for our expedition.
Go Orange
Go Orange offer guided kayaking trips from 2-5 days in Doubtful Sound, 1 day kayaking trips in Milford Sound, and day cruises in both Doubtful and Milford. Tara has worked many seasons as a kayak guide for Go Orange (used to be called Sea Kayak Fiordland) and they have made a generous cash donation towards our project.
Nick Mead and the crew at Auckland Sea Kayaks have jumped on board to support our expedition by providing a half day tour to Rangitoto Island in Auckland harbor, with Tara Mulvany. All profits are being given to our expedition. Cheers Nick.
Windpaddle are providing us with their awesome kayak sails to help us fly around Svalbard.
The Timmissartok Foundation provides grants for exploration and they have made a financial contribution to our project.
GOALZERO Solar
We are keeping all our equipment powered thanks to GOALZERO. using the Sherpa 100 kit and the Switch 10 multi tool kit