[Paddlewise] Kayaking Couples

I noticed in the replies to the boats question that a lot of spouses
or SOs have their own boats. So here is another survey question:
How many of you are kayaking couples, and were you paddlers
before you met?

To start the ball rolling, my wife and I are both kayakers. Linda
had a solo canoe (a Bell Creek Runner) when we met, but
because one of her favorite places to backpack was in the
Apostle Islands of Lake Superior, she wanted to try sea kayaking.
Her first sea kayaking trip was a beginners trip in the Apostles
that I led four years ago, and it went so well that we became a
couple two days later and got married ten weeks later, after
another trip to the Apostles and one to the Great Lakes Sea
Kayak Symposium. Our honeymoon was an eight-day, 63-mile
canoe trip through the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness
in my We-no-nah Jensen 18. We both own white Romany kayaks
that we paddle and roll with home-made Greenland paddles, we
both have BCU Four-Star Awards, and Linda is currently a board
member of the Twin Cities Sea Kayaking Association and
secretary of the Minnesota Canoe Association.

Incidentally, Linda is a white-haired 50-year-old secretary at the
University of Minnesota Medical School and I am a gray-haired
53-year-old writer of modem manuals. People at her workplace
are usually amazed when they find out she can roll a kayak and
enjoys winter camping.

Chuck Holst


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