Sam Weir
As well as running Kayak Scotland, Sam works full time in the outdoor activities industry coaching and guiding a wide range of outdoor activities.
He has been kayaking since 1979 and has paddled extensively in Ireland and Scotland. He has also paddled in Austria and both the East and West coasts of Canada. Sam holds BCU coaching awards in Sea, Inland and Open Canoe he is also a qaulified raft guide, mountain leader, mountain bike tutor and senior sailing instructor.
Anne Young
Anne is a sea kayaking enthusiast who started sea paddling while at school in Ayr. She hold's a BCU Level 3 sea coach award. She has paddled extensively on the East & West coasts of Scotland and looks forward to exploring other parts of the world.
A geology graduate, presently working as a coastguard, she has an extensive knowledge of many of the less well known areas of the Scottish coastline.
Colin Calder
Colin is a BCU qualified coach who holds the BCU 5 * Sea award. With over twelve years of sea kayaking in Scotland he has extensive experience of the islands and sea lochs on the west, the Orkneys and the exposed North Atlantic and North Sea coasts.
He is a zoology graduate with a PhD in Animal Ecology and he takes great pleasure introducing Kayak Scotland clients to the natural diversity surrounding Scotland's coast
Donald Thomson
Donald has been expedition paddling in Scotland and abroad since the mid 1970s, and an active coach in both sea and river paddling since 1977.
He holds BCU level 5 Coach Awards in both Sea and Inland kayaking. Donald is one of only a few who have kayaked the Orkney-Fair Isle- Shetland crossing, and was expedition leader for the first successful return kayak trip to St Kilda, 42miles into the Atlantic Ocean.
