Gear and retailers I use

Kayak manufacturers:

• P&H Sea Kayaks: Quest LV
• Rockpool Kayaks: Alaw Bach
• Valley Sea Kayaks: Nordkapp LV

Kayak gear/clothing:

• Flat Earth Kayak Sails: Flat Earth standard sail, 1 sqm.
• Fourth Element: UK manufacturer of Thermocline thermal protection clothing using Polartec Aquashell (for summer), Xerotherm (for autumn and spring) and Arctic (for winter) baselayers
• Kayalite: rear deck light
• Kokatat: Gore-tex expedition drysuit, Gore-tex TecTour anorak, Gore-tex Whirlpool bib, MSFit Tour PFD.
• Lendal Paddles: Kinetik Wing, carbon modified crank shaft
• Lomo: Boots, airbags, knives etc.
• Palm: spray decks
• Werner paddles: Cyprus neutral bent shaft 210cm.

Other related gear:

• AB Fishing Tackle: Kayak Fishing Starter Kit
• ACR: Personal Locator Beacon
• Anquet Maps Ordnance Survey mapping
• Canon Cameras: 5D Mk2 and L glass.
• Cascade Designs: Thermarest Prolite 4 and Compack Chair
• Exped lightweight dry bags.
• Garmin: GPS Map76csx with Bluechart mapping
• Hilleberg Tents: Nallo 3 GT
• Marmot: Helium down sleeping bag
• Memory Map: UKHO Marine Chart Folio
• Ortlieb: Aquazoom dry camera bag and dry bags.
• Pesda Press:  outdoor and adventure books. 
• Primus: ETA Power EF gas stove.
• Rule: 25S-6WC electric pump
• Standard Horizon: HX750E VHF

Sea kayak retailers:

• Desperate Measures, Nottingham
• Kari-tek: Ayrshire 
• Knoydart: Cumbria
• Poole Bay Canoes, Bournemouth
• Sea Kayak Oban

Outdoor retailers:

• Cotswold Outdoor 
• Tiso: 

Accommodation:

• Broad Bay House, Lewis STB 5* guest house right on the beach at Broad Bay.
• West Loch Shores, Kintyre STB 4* self catering timber lodges right on the shore of West Loch Tarbert.

Other links:

• MSc medical genetics
• MSc medical genetics University of Glasgow pages
• This one includes a video of the MSc Medical Genetics
• Essential Medical Genetics, Tobias, Connor, Ferguson-Smith: the recommended text for the MSc in Medical Genetics.