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The Tahu and Xipe are Yak’s new Touring buoyancy aids for 2011. Built specifically for the active paddler and watersports enthusiasts, these buoyancy aids ensure you are comfortable without compromising performance.

The Tahu and Xipe offer 55N of Buoyancy and are constructed using all new 3D Supersoft foam panels which wrap around your body for excellent freedom of movement. Their durable outer covers give longevity and lasting performance.

The Tahu uses a side zip closure for ease of entry and exit when changing layers on the water. Neoprene chest contour panels give an extremely comfortable and highly versatile fit for either men or women. A large front cargo pocket swallows your personal kit and combines with an easily accessed knife pocket. The all new slim-line pocket on the back will expand to take care of all your hydration requirements and an array of attachment points make the Tahu ideal for any expedition or recreational touring activity.


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The Xipe features a unique closure system which revolutionizes the front zip buoyancy aid. Its stylish asymmetric zip conceals the main adjustment buckles and webbing ensuring a clean, snag free front to the garment. Featuring 2 high volume front pockets, one of which has VHF radio compatibility, a slim-line rear pocket that can hold a hydration pack of up to 3ltr and various attachment points the Xipe is already becoming a firm favourite with touring and fishing paddlers, and instructors alike.

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Both Buoyancy Aids are approved to the new BS EN ISO 12402-5 standard. They also feature Yak’s new low profile easy-adjust buckle system for quick & easy donning and have reflective piping for extra visibility in low light conditions.

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.