To promote their craft and tours, PADDLEYAK Sea Kayak Productions CC and REAL CAPE ADVENTURES CC co-sponsor sea kayak adventures and expeditions. These have included
~ The RCA Mozambique 3000 Sea Kayak Expedition, the Malawi Kayak Challenge and the Lake Tanganyika Kayak Expedition, which saw adventurous paddlers exploring exciting new routes.
~ Riaan Manser, adventurer extraordinaire, who circumnavigated Madagascar in a PaddleYak® Swift Hybrid Classic as well as Iceland, together with Dan Skinstad, in a PaddleYak® Swift Hybrid Double.
~ Johan Loots‘ own explorations of many potential South African and African kayak routes, but also: Croatia, paddling as the crow flies, from Dubrovnik in the south, to the border with Slovenia in the north; Spain‘s Ria Arousa, from San Vicente to Padron (resulting in the first commercial sea kayak tour being set up on the famous Camino de Santiago), Mauritius, Zanzibar, St Marie (Madagascar), Sao Tome and Principe (west of Gabon) as well as various kayak adventures in Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Moorea, most serving to test out new craft, including the PY TavelYak Split. Loots also attended international boating platforms in the US and France and visited Sweden to introduce it to the PY Pro-X Surfski and Portugal and Italy to assess future sea kayak routes and outlets there.