Can we generate a list of all the published accounts of blue-water passages by kayak? (And canoe?) Probably a lot more people have accomplished this by rowing. (Does that tell us something?) Add sailboats 15 feet or less? And even the pedal-boaters? But let's find out about the kayakers most of all... That may be a fairly small list! Magazine articles as well as books. This list would exclude long river or coastal trips, however heroic. (Not Virginia Jason, not Jon Turk, not Rob Roy Macgregor) Let's say ocean crossings and long salt-water island-hopping passages. It would start with: Hannes Lindemann Captain Romer Ed Gillet (CA to HI) John Dowd (Venezuela-Bahamas-Florida, 1977) (any articles about that trip? Have others done that? ) Who went across the Bering Straits by kayak? Paul Theroux's Pacific trips? Maybe... Rowers: Ned Gillette (Chile to Antarctica) The Frenchman who rowed across the Pacific, (has a book out now) The guy in the Chris Bonington book who rowed across the Atlantic (Took his girlfriend but they never apparently 'managed it....') Is a woman rowing the Atlantic now? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 19 1998 - 12:55:11 PST
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