Beyond The Eddy Line podcast

Susan Marie Conrad is a long distance adventure kayaker who solo paddled the Inside Passage twice! Each expedition: Nearly 2,000 km in 78 days. Susan followed her hero, Audrey Sutherland who paddled this route 3 times, last one when she was 82 years old. What an inspirational story. In this episode, Susan shares how her relationship with nature looks like the “Beauty and the Beast” . From waiting...

My guest, Annelisa Pedersen, offers a unique approach to paddling development. As a kayak instructor, classical musician, and somatic movement teacher, she helps paddlers build strength, stability, and mobility through deeper body awareness. In this episode we explore how sensory awareness and refined technique can help paddlers build confidence and move more fluidly. Annelisa provides some ideas...

Happy new year Paddlers! In the third part of my conversation with J.F. Marleau , we explore what it means to live as sustainably as possible. He shares how fishing, foraging, hunting, and harvesting have become an essential part of his life. He also explains key considerations for fishing while kayaking and his best recipe for cooked seaweed. This episode brings the conversation full circle, grou...

In this second part of my conversation with J.F. Marleau , we talk about his role as a lighthouse relief keeper, while he and his partner were stationed at the Nootka Island Lighthouse . Along the BC coast, there are 27 active staffed lighthouses , and J.F. shares what that responsibility really looks like. The daily weather observations that being report so vessels of all kinds, including kayaker...

In this episode I’m joined by J.F. Marleau, co-owner of SKILS https://skils.ca/ on Vancouver Island, now semi-retired after more than two decades of teaching and leading paddlers on big, advanced expeditions. J.F. has spent over 20 years teaching coursed and taking paddlers into remote, powerful environments, pushing limits and embracing the realities of true wilderness travel. In this conversatio...

Today’s guest is a true play boater at heart. Chessy Knight , from Squamish, BC, is a Paddle Canada rolling instructor with a deep love for Greenland paddle techniques. In this episode, we talk about boat fitting, her favorite Greenland paddle, and how she brings those rolling skills into dynamic water.

In our very first episode, we’re joined by Spencer Jones — a rough-water sea kayaker known throughout the paddling community for pushing boundaries in some of the most powerful tidal conditions on the planet. Spencer has become especially recognized for his feats at Skookumchuck Narrows in British Columbia, Canada — a world-class tidal rapid where, during the biggest tides of the year, a massive s...