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Mighty Maple Tenderloin and Spicy smoked tomato chicken Recipe
By: Brad Leone
Pork has a bad reputation. My mom’s generation roasted a lot of dry, bone-white big pork loins and called it “the other white meat”.
November 12, 2024
5 min
- Lifestyle
RNLI x XTRATUF
By: XTRATUF
Looking for a fun activity that the whole family can enjoy whilst keeping fit? Stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) is rapidly gaining popularity. Here are our expert tips on how to paddleboard safely.
October 30, 2024
7 min
- Commercial Fishing
- Lifestyle
A Day In the Life in Bristol Bay
I’m often asked what life is like on the boat, and while the same things are done every day, the hours in which we do them are not.
October 28, 2024
3 min
- Lifestyle
PROFILE: EMILY CHILDS
By: Abby Cooper
You could describe Emily Childs as a pro skier and helicopter pilot - but I prefer to describe her as contagiously happy and extremely determined with graceful grit.
October 17, 2024
4 min
- Lifestyle
SURF SISTAS x XTRATUF
By: Surf Sistas
Surf Sistas has run surf trips and retreats for the past 20 years, and in that time we’ve helped 1000s of women boost ocean confidence and fall hard in love with surfing!
September 20, 2024
3 min
A SERIES OF STORIES FROM THE PEOPLE KEEPING UK BEACHES SAFE.
‘Inside the Hut’ is a blog series giving an inside look on what it takes to be an RNLI lifeguard. Telling the stories of some of the 1,700 RNLI lifeguards who are responsible for keeping the people who visit the 240 beaches across the UK safe each season
August 30, 2024
3 min
- Lifestyle
A Paddle Along the Continental Divide
Being a girl who grew up on the West Coast of Canada, my heart has always felt a connection to both water and mountains. So, when my partner and I decided to move away from the ocean to the Canadian Rockies, part of me worried that I would feel like something was missing.
July 27, 2024
3 min
- Lifestyle
Inside The Hut #1
‘Inside the Hut’ is a blog series giving an inside look on what it takes to be an RNLI lifeguard. Telling the stories of some of the 1,700 RNLI lifeguards who are responsible for keeping the people (and animals!) who visit the 240 beaches across the UK each season.
June 14, 2024
2 min
- Lifestyle
R2AK: TEAM ORCA
By: Abby Cooper
Notoriously rough and relentlessly beautiful, The Race to Alaska route is not for the faint of heart. R2AK shares the risks and rewards of this journey best, “You, a boat, a starting gun. $10,000 if you finish first, a set of steak knives if you’re second. Cathartic elation if you can simply complete the course."
June 12, 2024
4 min
- Lifestyle
Built for All - The Riptide Sandal
The concept of the Riptide was to create an all-weather, simplistic design that holds the same values as our original Legacy and Ankle Deck boots.
May 8, 2024
1 min
- Sport Fishing
THE UK’s FIRST EVER WOMEN’S SPEARFISHING EVENT!
Katy Davidson, aka ‘The Oyster Lady’ is an oyster pro, free diver and host of the UK’s first ever Women’s Spearfishing Event. XTRATUF® teamed up with Katy to provide the ladies with footwear to continue their adventures above the water!
March 8, 2024
4 min
- Lifestyle
Postcard from Antarctica: How do you stay warm in Antarctic conditions?
Well, the key of course is good kit and layering. And not just one layer on top of another for the sake of it but ensuring gaps for air between each layer too. If talking about your feet for example, it is useful to have different-sized socks – one normal size to go next to your feet and then a larger size which is thicker over the top.
January 24, 2024
2 min
- Lifestyle
This Blue Monday, we’d like to encourage you to lean into the blue.
By: Lydia Paleschi
Lydia Paleschi is a sailor, writer and one third of Wild Swimming Cornwall. A group of friends for whom wild swimming has had a profound impact on their lives. So much so, that in 2020 they published ‘A Guide to Wild Swimming in Cornwall’ with the hope that it would make getting into the water more accessible for both locals and visitors to Cornwall.
January 15, 2024
2 min
- Lifestyle
The Lift All Boats Project - A Student Mentorship Program Creating a Wave of Change
The purpose of the project is to encourage new generations to join Maine’s lobster fishery and make it easier for historically disadvantaged groups to get licensed.
December 20, 2023
3 min
- Lifestyle
From Mountains to Waves - Holiday Traditions with Cotty
By: Andrew "Cotty" Cotton
My time, even at the holidays, is always planned around the weather and the waves. This has become my tradition.
December 19, 2023
1 min
- Lifestyle
CHASING MONSTER SWELLS FROM NAZARE TO IRELAND
By: Andrew "Cotty" Cotton
Huge Atlantic swells mean only one thing. Monster waves. XT Crew member, Louis Thomas-Hudson talk us through his mission to Ireland in early November, alongside XTRATUF Pro Team, Andrew ‘Cotty’ Cotton.
December 15, 2023
2 min