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b) CONTACT AND LOCATION:
- sudnlycordBOASexciteDOTcom;
- web address: http://www.malvik.ne
c) KAYAKS (owned or paddled):
Chesapeake LT 16
d) INTERESTS:
bookbinding, typography, sea kayaking, reading, creative writing,woodworking, taking classes
e) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
web design, graphic design, typography
g) MOST INTERESTING KAYAK TRIP:
I have slim pickings to choose from as I'm a newbie. It would have to be my
trip up the Hudson River to the Bronx, less for the kayaking and more for the
experience of carrying the kayak over a train track with a 700 volt rail
(documented at http://www.malvik.net/nyc2.htm
http://www.malvik.net/nyc2.htm
BIO:
31 year old female, single; grew up in Maryland, just outside DC; University of
Michigan; lived in Ghana, West Africa in 1994; Masters in Publication Design.
Live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with 2 cats (Phyllis and Owen) who
don't like to kayak (as a matter of fact they don't much like water). Just
started kayaking this October after building Chesapeake Light Craft's
Chesapeake LT 16. Thoroughly enjoyed the experience and wish to repeat it.
Future plans/dreams: fix up an old house on the water, get a dog, build a
rowing shell and a canoe out of my woodworking/bookbinding studio, and devote
much of my time to my future family and to creating books, both content and
structure!
b) CONTACT:
- jcmartin43BOASaolDOTcom,
- johnDOTcDOTmartinBOASusDOTarthurandersenDOTcom
d) BOAT NAMES/CALLSIGNS:
My boats are not named; radio callsign is RIPTIDE for my last Navy asignment.
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
safety, cold weather paddling
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
aviation (Navy pilot), Combat Search and Rescue (see above), aviation safety
(Aviation Safety Officer and accident investigator).
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
yes, but trying to lose them.
h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP:
two week wilderness paddle on the Alsek and Tatshenshini Rivers in The Yukon,
British Columbia and Alaska with my son a guide) and my daughter (her first
overnight camping trip [!]); new ways to learnfrom your kids!
i) BIO:
56 (tomorrow), married, three kids --- youngest graduating from Ohio
University this June; oldest got me interested in kayaking, which I've been
fascinated with for nine years (tomorrow); the Sea Lion was a birthday present
--- something to do, a hobby, thought my wife; she, a non-paddler, regrets
that to this day. I'm happy. Work in business consulting, trying to get the
Navy, in particular, in touch with the way "business" can be done.
Active with the Chesapeake Paddler Association as an event coordinator; next show is a cold water session in January we're calling "Y2Kold" --- yeah, kinda dumb, but maybe we'll keep another paddler from becoming a statistic.
Writing an article for publication next week as a follow-up to information collected about the death of a friend in a kayaking accident on Lake Erie last Thanksgiving. Statistics.
Jack Martin
FEBRUARY's "Who We Are" ENTRY
Sharing the good reactions that others have had to this "who we are" idea ---
bemoaning the fact that I took four days off from e-mail, and am slogging through
an awful lot of stuff, but reading some very interesting responses. Some
from people who are totally reinitializing themselves in a new context from
faceless "originators" of e-mail to real live people in my mind.
I'm Jack Martin, and, at 55, I'm probably a lot closer to the mean vintage of those who've admitted their seniority than I'd thought I'd be. My paddling is chiefly on the Chesapeake Bay and associated areas, sometimes in the typically dumping surf of the Maryland and Delaware Atlantic coasts, and, when I'm really lucky, Monterey Bay and Baja California. Occasionally, when I'm feeling macho, my original waters on Long Island Sound. Mostly sea kayaking. Some white water, mostly lighter duty stuff on the Nanatahala and a little on the Chatooga Rivers, but did do a two week trip down the Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers in the Yukon, British Columbia and Alaska a few years back. And, in my less reasonable moments, some white water open canoe craziness with my son, Carey, now 29, a white water guide and instructor.
It's Carey's fault, really, this kayaking business. And Putnam W. Blodgett, III, the operator of the Challenge Wilderness Camp in Vermont, who was responsible for taking a nice suburban ten year old and turning him into a small Uel Gibbons (sp?) eating pine cones on survival trips. It's what happens when a ten year old picks a summer camp. He turns your world around. Thank God for ten year olds.
I, too, did the aluminum canoe stuff in my earlier days, did a lot of competitive one-design sailing on Long Island Sound, travelled around the world on big gray boats that my Uncle owned --- had aircraft on the roof that I was allowed to fly sometimes --- for several years, but was introduced to sea kayaking at son Carey's graduation from college eight years ago. The venue couldn't have been better. The Apostle Islands! Six months later, for my 47th birthday, my wife --- {not} an outdoorsy person at all, had Carey bring home a then ancient Sea Lion from the outpost at the Chatooga as a birthday present. Still have and love that boat.
But my boat of choice is a VCP Pintail, much modified. Great boat, not fast, not big, but active and a real trip in the surf. Also, coming together slowly now is a CLC North Bay, started by Carey and me over Christmas break --- his first trip home from Utah in five years. The North Bay is a beautiful, low volume boat, and the Pintail is very jealous. (The Sea Lion understands, but wants a new home where she'll be taken out on trips a lot more often.) And, behind the extension ladder, is a neon green Ocean Kayak Scrambler sit-on-top -- - fun, wild in the bumps, but probably in need of a better home, too.
With the Pintail and the North Bay, Greenland style paddling seems most appropriate, and is my mainstay. But media can mix. Did you know you can roll a Scrambler with a Greenland paddle? I was surprised --- and it wasn't pretty, and the Scrambler seemed surprised, but it works. Never pretty, always effective. But making and using Greenland paddles is an incredibly karma-enhancing experience, and paddling your own home-built paddles can only be bettered by paddling your own home-built boat. I will not be surprised if that's the case.
My work with the Navy in a business- and project-development role puts me literally on the St. Mary's River in southern Maryland --- well 50 yards away -- - and some great backwater paddling, with easy access to the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac. If I'm not out on the water every day --- which I'm not --- it's nobody's fault but my own.
Thanks to Jackie for starting this list --- I joined shortly after it was set up --- and to Dave for thinking up this thread, and to all who have --- and who will --- share more of themselves than what we read in PFD endorsements or towing line tangles. I'm enjoying the list more now, knowing a little more about y'all.
Jack Martin
Well, I guess its my turn to introduce myself.
My name is Tim Mattson. I live in the glorious but wet Willamette valley of Oregon where we have white water rivers, the pacific ocean (complete with Gray whales), and plenty of flat water to paddle in. The water's cold, but at least its liquid and flowing all year round!
I started padding in the spring of 1996 , going out between three and five times per week all year round. I am completely obsessed with kayaking. I paddle up to class IV white water, play in the pounding surf, race kayaks in the open ocean, and try to take at least one week-long kayak camping trip per year.
I love to roll and practice it every week in a pool and whenever I paddle in non-polluted water. My hand roll is inconsistent, but I do have a "bomb-proof" roll on both sides (white water kayaking is a great way to get comfortable rolling in rough water). I'm usually the one in our sometimes heated rolling discussions advocating the roll as a basic (as opposed to advanced) technique in kayaking.
As for equipment, I use a Feathercraft Khatsalano - usually with a Greenland paddle - when I travel or want a playful sea kayak. I race with a Seda Glider using an Epic wing paddle. I use a dagger Redline or a dancer XT in white water and surf. And for all around kayaking and rough ocean conditions, I have a kevlar Necky Looksha Sport .
To support my paddling, I work as a research scientist at Intel. I have a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry and am almost as obsessed with science as I am with kayaking. To learn more about my work, my boats and my few noteworthy paddling expeditions, check out my web page at www.proaxis.com/~matkins/tim.htm .
--Tim
a) NAME:
Maun, Patrick
b) Email address:
pmaunBOASbitstreamDOTnet
d) Boat name and serial number if maritime radio operator:
Tarpon Rua (The Red Tarpon in Irish), never had to actually use my VHF though
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Cross country skiing, telemark skiing, winter and summer camping, bike
touring, planning some big ocean trips.
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
I'm a good cook, does that count? Some friends call me "Discovery Channel"
as I tend to randomly spout off odd bits of facts and trivia. I speak a
bunch of languages.
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
I'm left of the left.
h) MOST INTERESTING KAYAK TRIP:
Every trip is a great trip. Even the one when I almost destroyed a boat.
i) Short BIO (personal description):
I started kayaking about four years ago. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota. I
spend the summer on Lake Superior when I can. Try to get out on the
Mississippi a couple times a week during the fall and winter. I'm 32 so I'm
not too old, and not too young -- more like just right. I am an artist
(visit my site at http://www.well.com/~butoh ,
but we all know how well that pays so I worked in advertising as a designer to
pay the bills for awhile and now run my own small design/consulting firm. I am
also a visiting professor at the College of Architecture at the University of
Minnesota. I also co-edit and curate an online journal from MIT Press devoted to
exploring the boundaries between art, science and technology.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/LEA . Kayaking,
and other outdoor activities, give me to the fuel for my disparate activities.
b) CONTACT:
- unfoulBOASaolDOTcom
- Naples, FL
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Other than fishing/diving/paddling?
Birding/running/cycling. Also Renaissance art, any music that includes
guitar picking, theology. Any activity that raises funds to fight or raises
awareness of breast cancer.
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
Expert catfish catcher; deep knowledge of 2% of the
10,000 Islands of SW Florida.
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
Psalm 19 says it all. I also have deep feelings about
internal combustion engines mounted on boats.
h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP:
Florida Keys - water is so clear, it is like
kayaking on air.
i) BIO:
Age 48. Single/widower. Three grown kids, all above average.
Courted late wife 25 yrs ago in a canoe on Michigan's Red Cedar River. Been
paddling ever since. Moved to Florida 2 yrs ago for the waters. Was not
misinformed. Have best job in the world: I get to travel to all the best
paddling spots around N. America (I have a small business that provides
services for turbine engines). Paddling dream: kayaking the canals of Venice.
a) NAME;
McCutcheon, Bruce St. Augustine, Fl
b) CONTACT;
- Outfit3029BOASaolDOTcom
- website; www.wholeearthoutfitters.com
d) Boat names: n/a
e) Vhf Radio Call: n/a
f) SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE;
ACA Instructor- Intro Kayak, ARC Instructor Canoe and Kayak, WFR,
carpenter(boats and barns)
g) STRONG OPINIONS;
No thanx, I have plenty.
h) Favorite trip: the next one
BIO;
Married 17 years to Robin , 2.25 children, .25 is twenty-five yr. old daughter
from Robin's first marriage, other two are 14 yr. old girl and 12 yr. old boy.
Both younger children paddle. Began paddling in earnest about eight years ago
while employed by UPS. Paddling was my sanctuary. Left UPS and opened shop six
years ago.
21st July 2002 - Bill McKenzie
a) NAME:
McKenzie, Bill
b) CONTACT:
- billDOTmckenzieBOASattbiDOTcom
- Federal Way, Washington, USA
d) BOAT NAME & CALL SIGN (IF RADIO OPERATOR):
ADVENTURE I - WA06054
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Navigation, hiking, camping, orienteering, cribbage
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
Flying, Boeing airplanes, flight crew procedures
g) STRONG OPINIONS: yes
h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP: 10 days in warm Belize. Easy & FUN.
i) BIO:
Born in 1951, married with 2 teenage girls. Retired from flying
transports for the Air Force. Currently in Boeing Flight Test in Seattle.
Started paddling in 1981 and now instruct kayaking for clubs in the Puget
Sound area (WKC & BEWET). ACA Coastal Kayak instructor and BCU Senior
Instructor. Most of my trips involve the west coast of Vancouver Island and
coast of British Columbia. A few to Mexico and Alaska.
b) CONTACTS:
- mmcnally3BOASprodigyDOTnet,
- Omaha, Nebraska
c) KAYAKS (Owned or paddled):
necky arluk 3, swift osprey solo canoe;
no names as of yet, but if I go down to the shore where I left my boat and it's
not there, I'll probably be able to think of a few names then :)
d) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
listening, learning, and (if I can afford it)
going... I enjoy most non-extreme activities: biking, skiing, paddling,
raquetball, softball, volleyball, swimming. I enjoy good food, drink, and
company.
e) SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE:
carpenter, electrician, electrical engineer,
programming, unix
f) STRONG OPINIONS: not one
g) MOST INTERESTING TRIP:
It's a 4-way tie: 1)mtn scrambles in banff provincial
park; 2)seven wks of flyfishing in British Columbia; 3)one wk of paddling in
the everglades; 4)eighty mile hike across the Sierras and over Mt Whitney.
BIO:
I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. When I was 17 I moved to Biloxi MS. At 18
I moved to Santa Barbara, CA, then San Jose, CA, and then back to go to college
at age 27 at the Univ of Nebr. Lincoln, and I now live and work in Omaha. I am
a member of IBEW Union Local #22, and I work as an electrician for a local
electrical contractor. My next move will probably be northwest to Seattle or
maybe to Florida.
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Medical clinics in Belize, Tikal area in Guatemala,
snow skiing, fishing, web work
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
Research methods, Some electrical work, computer
hardware/software, web work, human behavior, children's services
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
Yellow dog Democrat
h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP:
On lake Sam Rayburn, Texas, being blown by a sudden squall through a
forest of flooded dead trees and stumps while under sail in my kayak, losing
control, and watching the nose go under water several times before being
washed against the shores. Some lessons are hard learned.
i) BIO:
Age 50, married 30 years, 3 grown children, Masters in Social Work,
28 years in children's services for the state of Texas. Wife does not
paddle. Don't get boat out too much because of job. Also, part time jobs in
home health and teaching at a local university in social work. Got Folbot 6
yrs ago after 40 years of wishing I had one from reading the National
Geographic ads and the Folbot Holiday book. Wife is a teacher of music in
public school. Oldest child, 29 teaching piano, next, age 25, is a pharmacy
tech and her husband is in the airforce, last is 24 and he is going to work
in Connecticut for an investment firm.
b) CONTACT:
- raisdenBOASmediaoneDOTnet
- Brentwood, NH, USA
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Being outdoors, music, reading, cooking, pets.
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
Jack of many trades. Not necessarily a master of any.
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
n/a.....I generally find that a strong opinion up front usually
indicates a closed door out back.
h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP:
I find most trips I take to be very interesting. I guess much of
my favorite paddling would have to be hopping the islands of the
coast of Maine in the thickest fog possible.
i) BIO
49 years old. Married. No children. Two dogs(Berners), a grey cat, a
small parrot(Hahns). Employed by a kayak outfitter on the coast of Maine for
several months out of the year. Winters find me paddling for pleasure and
working part time for some college textbook companies.
31st August 2003 - Kees van der Meij
NAME:
Kees van der Meij
EMAIL: keesvdmBOASxs4allDOTnl
WEBSITE: http://www.vouwkano.nl/ (mostly in Dutch, but a small part is in English. BTW vouwkano means
"folding canoe" in Dutch, where canoe is a generic term for any paddled boat).
LOCATION: 52 03 N, 4 29 E (somewhere in the wet parts of The Netherlands)
BOATS: just a Klepper Aerius I
Picked up paddling in 1999
TRIPS so far: mostly flatwater, some of the lower Rhine branches
LIKES: besides paddling (of course): gadgets, photography, cycling, nature, sailing, tinkering with computers, keeping a website, reading, music
BIO: Age 44, single, works in an industrial automation company as support specialist
b) CONTACT:
- 'meldrumBOASyourfutureDOTabDOTca'
- Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada.
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
general coastal touring, gunkholing, kayak/scuba diving treks,
general river touring.
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
general knowledge
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
closet environmentalist
a) NAME:
Meyer, Paul, age 43
b) CONTACT:
White Bear Lake, MN, USA (not on WBL, but about 1 mile from public accesses
to Bald Eagle and Otter Lakes). Work e-mail as shown. Home email
meyerplBOASvisiDOTcomDOT
c) KAYAKS (Owned or Paddled):
Got no kayak. Contention point with family. With unlimited resources would
have Looksha IV (FUN boat!) for day/short trips, and QCC Q500 for long multiday
stuff. DIY hard-chined kit a possibility. Reality says I'll probably continue
in rental and tour mode. Do have an old Grumman clone alumithumper canoe that
visits the local lakes as time permits.
*Update 6/13/00 - Finally got plastic yellow Looksha IV
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
downhill skiing (note the trend - small lakes, small hills...), hiking, sf
f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
lots of odd stuff rattling around
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
I have too little experience in this area (please tell family!). If anyone
wants good recent book recs from sf, Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_ tops the
list.
h) MOST INTERESTING KAYAK TRIP:
Tour my wife and I took on Superior. Paddling in the fog on a dead calm
lake was quite an experience.
Paul
NAME: Mier-Maza, Rafael. Nickname: el cayucochief
CONTACT:
- silidrielBOASprodigyDOTnetDOTmx
e) BOAT NAME - 'NUUK', Length 18 feet, width 23.5 inches at waterline.
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Design and construction of fiberglass kayaks. Permanent
search for improvements in methods, products, teaching or gadgets that will make
kayaking more fun for some and easier for others. Goals: Become proficient in
kayak surfing and become experienced in multiday open water trips. Paddle in the
Gulf of Mexico Veracruz area and know the surrounding well enough to invite
world friends to kayak and tour there.
SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:
ACA open water instructor (certificate expired in
2004). Founder of the Mexican Academy of Sea Kayaking (Kayakemia) (2003). I
obtained a PhD in Physics, that has helped some in the designs and creative
thought. I suffered with rolling in the past and right now have a fairly
reliable roll in real situations, but in the process developed a rescue
technique called "Mexican Rescue Technique" based on paddlefloat reentry and
roll and a simple device called "Mexican Outrigger". With this outrigger it is
possible to bail, eat or take pictures using both hands, while sitting stable on
the kayak, even in shaky waters. It uses a paddlefloat on the paddle held firmly
perpendicular to the boat, by the cockpit, with one blade under the thigh brace
and a string, keeping the paddle firm, held by a quick disconnect cleat.
Pictures at http://community.webshots.com/user/cayucochief at album Mexican Rescue Technique.
Obtained Patent from US Patent Office on efficient water bike.
STRONG OPINIONS:
Safety and ability to self rescue (both by roll and
other means) should be strongly recommended when paddling out in the sea, either
alone or in group. Everybody should work on skills to become self sufficient.
BIO:
Born in Mexico City 1947. Bachelor in Phyisics from Mexican National
University. Master and PHD from Rice University Tx USA. ACA certified open water
instructor (2000). Founder of company Mayan Seas and Kayakemia (Mexican Academy
of Sea Kayaking). Member of Californa Kayak Friends. Married with Lety.
Children: Gustavo 12 and Andrea 10. Has own company of electrical insulating
materials and high voltage applications. Has been kayaking in California, Texas,
Washington, Oregon, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida and all over Mexico.
From: Mills, Larry {millslBOASpurchaseDOTedu}
I may as well contribute my own bio to the group.
I have pictures my parents took of me "rowing" a wooden boat when I was about 2. That was 50 years ago. But my boat love has remained for the whole time.
I'm a Michigan native who was lucky enough to be able to spend many summers in the Upper Peninsula on a terrific lake (Indian Lake at Manistique for those of you familiar with the place). I just lived in the boats most of the time even though they were just flat bottomed wooden tubs which were hand made by the guy that owned the resort. I thought that the 5hp. motor on them really made them fly.
So, I do high school, college, Viet Nam (apparently with college the idea is to actually go to the classes), college again (Go Spartans) marriage and end up in Bay City where we bought an 18ft. wooden daysailer of indeterminate origin. My wife was teaching with a guy who said that every man should get married, divorced and own a wooden boat and since he had done all 3, he knew that owning the wooden boat was the worst of them. I can't claim any knowledge of the divorce deal since I've been with this sainted woman for 30 years but I know going to another wooden boat is NOT in my future.
Eventually sold the boat and moved to Mt. Pleasant where I was the advisor to the Central Michigan University Sailing Club, mostly to have access to the daysailers they had. But I did have a friend who bought a kayak called a Loon that was about 17ft. of kevlar. It hooked me.
I succumbed to the siren song of the State University of New York system and ended up in Stony Brook, about a mile from the Long Island sound and didn't have a boat. It was a bad 3 years.
Moved upstate to another SUNY campus and found Keowees in the LLBean catalog. Bought 2 and had them plus paddles direct shipped to the house about 5 years ago when the shipping charge was $3.50 per order. They sure want more now to do the same thing.
We've used them to explore Otsego Lake at Cooperstown, the Susquehanna river, the Outer Banks, and the Upper Peninsula.
Thanks to an ad I saw on NYCKayaker, I met the Volins in Middletown and traded them cash for a Dagger Edisto. I couldn't be happier with the boat. But now I need one for my wife since the Keowee can't keep up with the Edisto. We're working on the funding. Funny how that happens.
I'm the Human Resources Director at the SUNY Purchase campus waiting for my son to graduate from HS so we can move down here from Oneonta and I can try the Hudson and some of the other places so often mentioned by the members of this terrific list.
This has got to be way more than anyone needed to know.
Larry Mills
a) NAME:
Milo, Rene (nickname Milo)
b) CONTACT:
- rmiloBOASibmDOTnet
- Poughkeepsie, NY
c) KAYAKS (Owned or Paddled):
Feathercraft K Lite and 1998 K1.
d) BOAT NAME & SERIAL NUMBER IF MARITIME RADIO OPERATOR:
Nameless (though, I have called the K1 some names during assembly).
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Reading (sci-fi, mystery). Being outdoors. Working out. Skiing.
g) STRONG OPINIONS:
h) MOST INTERESTING KAYAK TRIP:
10 days in Wales at Nigel Dennis's ASSC with Atlantic Kayak Tours (AKT).
Loved playing in the tidal races. Seals, sea caves, rugged coast.
i) BIO:
Male. Divorced. b1948, makes me 51 for now. Two children from the first
marriage and two grandchildren. I have only been kayaking 2 years -- I don't
know what I was thinking prior to that.
FEBRUARY's "Who We Are" ENTRIES
I'm Rene Milo. My first name rhymes with bean as in "Rene Rene Jelly Bean". I
prefer being called Milo. :-) Last year I entered the ranks of one of the
special interest groups ("mature" adult) at age 50. 1998 was my first year of
kayaking and I got into it with a vengance -- every weekend from May to November
(hmm, echos of a song). At the end of the year I succeeded at rolling my
Feathercraft K1.
This coming year my goals are to get BCU certified with AKT, do some camping from the kayak (camping is also new to me -- I'm getting a late start on a lot of things), and see whales from a kayak.
Milo
Poughkeepsie, NY
Home - Shelburne, Vermont on Lake Champlain
Email - misktome@gmavt.net I began paddling 5 years ago as a way to alleviate stress from my large organic tomato greenhouse farm. Now I would rather be kayaking. I bought a Wilderness Systems Alto 5 years ago and hooked up with the Champlain Kayak Club of which I am now a board member. Two years ago I formed the CKC Frostbiters, a group of all year around paddlers.
I paddle on Lake Champlain (live close to the Lake), Lake George, and the Adirondack Lakes with several trips each year to the ocean. I switched to Greenland due to elbow pains and have been hooked ever since. I am enjoying learning the Greenland rolls. Now paddling a Valley Pintail and am thinking about getting a lighter boat.
I am beginning to paddle with my 16 year old daughter who loves the wildlife and slows me down so I can enjoy the critters.
I am always willing to host visiting Paddlewisers. Our lakes are quite beautiful in all seasons and the winds/waves can be challenging. I have had the pleasure of hooking up with several Paddlewisers on out of state trips and look forward to more.
Phone - 802-425-3959
7th January 2010 - Jens Viggo Moesmand
I appreciate the input from all paddlewisers very much. So here I am:
a) NAME: Moesmand, Jens Viggo
b) CONTACT:
e) VHF CALL:
f) SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE;
g) STRONG OPINIONS: Yes.
h) FAVORITE TRIPS:
i) BIO:
Paddling started by coincidence in 1998 to help overcome a bad back and
it has since become my other way of life. Before this I have enjoyed
outdoor activities since childhood.
I started my own business with consultancy and shop in 1987 after too
much travelling and bad job prospects. I'm an all-rounder with many
different areas of professional interest among them acoustics,
motorcycles, publishing, playground security, education, it-technology
and systems engineering. I squeeze the time for kayaking in between.
My other interest for the coming years as retired is photography but I
am still in business although slowing down to get more time for
seakayaking.
I'm also administrator of and instructor in our local kayaking club
where I regularly arrange trips along our coast and in other waters.
b) CONTACT: c) BOATS: d) BOAT NAME & CALL SIGN: nope
e) SPECIAL INTERESTS: f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: g) STRONG OPINIONS: h) MOST INTERESTING TRIP: I) BIO:
Frank Montbriand
23rd April 2002 - Lincoln S Morikone
Lincoln S. Morikone 59 yrs. old. Wife Drusila. Medical missionaries from the
US to Hong Kong. Living in Hong Kong for 6 years now. We work for the Hong
Kong Adventist Hospital. (We have a Sydney Adventist in your neck of the
woods.) I worked for another of our hospitals for 25 years and decided to
give some time to the Lord's work and became missionaries after a good
career.
Own a 2000(yr.) Klepper Quattro and an Aerius 2000(model). We travel a lot
so use them here and in the US on our furloughs. Began with a Folbot Super
many years ago. Have had many inflatables for whitewater during my younger
years.
Favorite place to paddle is the BC coastline in Canada. Experience is a
beginner for the wife and an advanced beginner for me. I've kayaked many
years(40) but have not advanced much technically as I do very safe paddling
in protected bays and slow rivers. I'm a nature lover and bird-watcher and
so we just putter along watching for wildlife to photograph and video. Then
on a stormy day we pull out the videos and remenisce.
We keep a motorhome as our base in the States and take our folders home with
us and put it on the roof and travel the States and Canada with them. Hong
Kong has some beautiful quiet bays to paddle in albeit a bit polluted and
trashy in most. Waters here are calm in the South China Sea but the heavy
shipping and boat traffic makes for interesting wakes. Love to paddle past
villages stopped in time. Hong Kong is so diverse. Skyscrapers next to
ramshackled villages.
We hope to paddle some of your rivers in Australia. We watch travelogs on
Austalia and have seen the Murray or is it the Yarra that runs for miles and
it seems okay for a folder. It would be a nice float past some clean country
and maybe some wildlife. One of our furloughs will be spent there and in NZ.
Might do the motorhome bit there.
Well, I hope I've covered enough for you to post mainly our essential stats.
We appreciate your volunteering to do this.
All the best,
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c) KAYAKS (Owned or Paddled): e) SPECIAL INTERESTS: f) SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: h) MOST INTERESTING KAYAK TRIP: From: Myers, John {jmyersBOASlongbranchDOTk12DOTnjDOTus}
A New Jersey waterman for 42 years ever since that first boat, a little
flat-bottom skiff [and what a pretty thing she was, too], at age fifteen. Many
small sailing, rowing, and some power boats since then but now down to just two
kayaks. Don't have what anyone could call a reliable roll; thrash and flail when
it works, thrash and fail when it doesn't. Really kinda pitiful, I suppose.
Probably from so many years in sailing dinghys where it is considered
extraordinarily poor form to be inside a boat that is upside down. A Zen
experience whenever I am paddling my Arctic Hawk. The boat and I metamorphose
into a single entity.You know.
e-mail address: jensviggoBOASmoesmandDOTdk
http://www.havkajakstevns.dk/
Denmark
Jonathan - XPD4737
No, just doing a lot of tour-planning and training of seakayakers.
Especially about security and personal responsibility.
I usually paddle in the Baltic sea at the cliffs at the Stevns
peninsula. The highlight is the annual tour in the eastern Swedish
archipelago in May. I visit the other Danish waters occasionally to see
the local water and wildlife.
I am now 66 and have been married for about 40 years. We have 2
daughters and 4 grandchildren.
fmontBOAScapitalDOTnet
Arctic Hawk, CLC Patuxant 17.5
Greenland paddles and paddling, camping
Heating and plumbing
Yes, but seem to keep changing
Usually the one I'm currently on.
I am Frank Montbriand, 57 and live in Ticonderoga NY, located on the
edge of the Adirondack Mts. between Lake George and Lake Champlain. Paddle
mostly these two lakes as well as other smaller lakes in the Adirondacks. I
enjoy Greenland paddling and paddle making. Also I like to kayak camp. My
paddle season extends from ice out to ice in.
Lincoln and Drusila Morikone
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital
morikoneBOASnetvigatorDOTcom
- E-mail to: Rainman779BOASaolDOTcom,
- Location: Stamford, CT
Current Designs Extreme (for serious paddling), High Volume and Wilderness
Systems Pungo (for fun)
Touring, camping, fishing, Class I & II Whitewater
Ex paramedic with good first aid knowledge.
Safety First (CYA)! Also paddle with good friends whenever possible.
I never was on a trip that wasn't special or interesting in some way.
- email: rossmBOAStreecrusherDOTcom
- homepage: www.treecrusher.com
Pygmy coho, baidarka
Kayak building
Mechanical Engineering
Haven't taken it yet