After scouting the whole gorge a few hundred feet below us, we committed. As we looked downstream on the Stehekin River toward the final crux rapid, made up of three high-volume, dynamic recirculating ...

When we went hunting for personal flotation devices for our Boat of the Year judges and staff, we went to the folks at Annapolis Performance Sailing for a recommendation. They suggested Astral, a PFD ...

Having lived in Minnesota for the past five years, I would venture up to the Boundary Waters a few times a year to paddle through the lakes and rivers. The place left a formidable impression on my ...

In 2002, Philip Curry, the designer behind Patagonia's now-discontinued Lotus line of lifejackets, decided to get back into the PFD business. He founded Astral Buoyancy to create the highest-quality ...