Rental Overview

🎉 We set a new standard of rentals, both in quality of equipment, and in conscientious service.

• The best equipment in the business (NDK, Werner, Kokatat, Seals)
• Intimate knowledge of the area
• Daily weather forecasts while you’re on the trip
• Pre-screening and service selection to match your skills and goals
• Our creativity and resources give you flexibility and peace of mind

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Any rental inherently depends on your good judgment. To help set you up for success and enjoyment, all of these options come with prerequisites, expectations, and built-in safety measures.

Level of Service

Provisioned				Equipped				Bare Bones
All ready! Just come and paddle.				You do the food, we do all the rest.				As basic as it gets.

Types of Rental

Expedition Rental

• For highly experienced sea paddlers
• Circumnavigations, crossings, coasting
• 4 to 10 days

One Island Rental

• For adventurous paddlers with experience
• Motorboat dropoff and pickup same island
• No crossings necessary
• 3 to 6 days

One Beach Rental

• Relaxed camping and playing from the beach
• Motorboat dropoff and pickup same beach
• No kayaking packing necessary
• 2 to 3 days

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Levels of Service – More Info

Provisioned

You want to show up and just go paddling–whohoo! We plan, shop, and pre-pack your meals into drybags, with directions, ready to put in your kayak and paddle away. Select your menu, let us know any dietary needs and preferences, and we customize your meals. We include any utensils and kitchen equipment you need.

The Provisioned service saves you time, hassle, and money. You may avoid an extra hotel night. You will certainly avoid a taxi or rental car or long walks schlepping groceries from various stores. It saves you calculating amounts for your meals, and repacking into ziplocks and drybags. If you don’t already have a well-rehearsed system for all this, it saves you from inventing one. It saves you from forgetting things.

This is what we do for a living. We live here and know what’s usually available and how to adapt when it isn’t. We know how to find the hard-to-find stuff, and when to recommend that you bring a specialty item. We know about how much will fit into your kayak if you pack it well, which we can help with the first time. (What we don’t know is how much stuff you’ll be bringing! Stick to the recommended packing list for best results, and keep it minimal.)

• Custom menu planning. We work with your dietary needs.
• Provisioning. We do the shopping.
• Prepacking. We pack your food into drybags, labeled, with instructions.
• Condiments, oil, etc
• Soap, bleach, sponges, toilet paper
• Includes everything in Equipped Rental
• Price does not include alcohol

Equipped

You like planning the food yourself and enjoy the adventure of shopping in a foreign country–bring it on! We have the equipment here so you don’t have to worry about fuel compatibility or whether you can fly with your stove. You don’t have to lug around kitchen equipment or drybags or water bags, and don’t have to clean them afterwards. This is a convenient option for the do-it-yourself camper.

For your safety and our peace of mind, all Expedition and One Island rentals include a Garmin In-Reach satellite communication device. We send forecasts daily and you send us an “all OK” message that automatically lets us know where you are. These “Explore” units also include a GPS, so you can see where you’ve landed if you’re not sure. Two-way satellite texting facilitates low-stress changes of plan and adaptability.

• 2-3 MSR stoves, or 1 Coleman
• Fuel bottles and fuel
• Cutting boards, knives, plates, cups, bowls, pots, utensils, wash buckets
• 2-3 Kitchen towels
• Ikea bag for carrying kitchen gear
• Kitchen tarp for organizing gear and keeping it clean
• Up to 2 GSI micro-tables, or 1 Roll-a-Table
• Sturdy wind screens
• Mesh bags for carrying produce
• Ditty bags and drybags for organizing gear
• Filled Dromedary water bags
• Mini cooler
• Set of 5 drybags per person
• Shortie wetsuit, optional for snorkeling
• Mask, fins, and snorkel
• MSR Hubba or Hubba Hubba tent for couple or single
• Therm-a-Rest inflatable camping mattress
• Sleeping bag
• Deck compass per person for Expedition-style
• Up to 2 paddle floats per group
• Icom M72 submersible VHF radio per trip (except One Beach)
• Garmin InReach 2-way satellite communication device with GPS (except One Beach)
• Weather forecasts daily via DeLorme text (sent to phone on One Beach rentals)
• 1 North Water Sea Tow per each 3 people
• Basic repair kit
• Laminated chart(s)
• Garbage bag
• Spice kit
• 1 lighter
• Plus everything in Bare Bones

Bare Bones

Just the basics here. We set you up with the kayak and kayaking equipment, and what you need to legally get on the water: Marine park permits and Port Captain permission, transportation to & from the water, consultation to plan a reasonable trip for your objectives and experience.

For your safety and our peace of mind, all Expedition and One Island rentals include a Garmin In-Reach satellite communication device. We send forecasts daily and you send us an “all OK” message that automatically lets us know where you are. These “Explore” units also include a GPS, so you can see where you’ve landed if you’re not sure. Two-way satellite texting facilitates low-stress changes of plan and adaptability.

For One Beach rentals, we do require some form of communication, such as your cell phone capable of sending and receiving calls and text in Mexico.

For Expedition and One Island trips, please bring, wear, and know how to use a towing system with a length of at least 10 meters (30 feet). Carry at least one per every 2 people. You can rent them from us if you need to.

Included with Bare Bones:

• Nothing but the necessities here
• A kayak or SUP appropriate to your rental style
• Carbon or fiberglass Werner paddles or Don Beale Greenland stick plus a spare per group
• Seals or NRS spray deck if using a sea kayak
• Kokatat or NRS PFD (life jacket)
• Pump, sponge, kayak carrying straps as appropriate
• Personal “wag bags” for managing waste.
• InReach 2-way satellite communication device with GPS (Except One Beach)
• Weather forecasts daily via DeLorme text (sent to phone on One Beach rentals)
• Consultation about local weather, National Marine Park info, route planning
• Permits per person per night for the National Marine Park of Loreto (if applicable).
• Permit from the Port Captain per trip.
• Transfer of people and equipment to launch and take-out, or motorboat shuttle to beach.

Consultations Services

We are happy to consult, rent individual items, and arrange logistical services to support your paddling trip. Our expertise and resources can make your trip and its preparation more enjoyable and safer.

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