Good place for me to add my 2 cents.

I'm a canoer, or should I say paddler. My girl friend and I are planning on kayaking Lake Superior this summer, so I hit a lot of kayaking stuff this year. Thanks for offering a broad range of speakers. A lot of info was new to me and I needed to get up to speed. Martha liked the show too, both the speakers and the shopping. She needed cold weather paddling gear and I told her to wait for the show.
By the way sea kayaking on an in-land sea isn't the tame stuff most canoers think of when they think of sea kayaking.
I really liked Body-Boat-Blade's presentations, Leon Somme & Shawna Franklin. I caught their T-rescue and tow talks.

Nigel Dennis was great too.

I didn't like the guys who did "Kayak Camping for Canoers". Some of the stuff they presented was unknowingly directly countered by Leon & Shawna.