Re: [Paddlewise] (Blue Water Passage by Kayak

From: John Somers <somers_at_utmbrt.utmb.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:17:42 -0600
At 03:53 PM 11/19/98 EST, you wrote:
>Can we generate a list of all the published accounts of blue-water
passages by
>kayak?  (And canoe?) 
>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...
>

Add Arthur Hebert of Louisiana, USA.  Arthur (known to some as "that crazy
Cajun") paddled solo across the Gulf of Mexico last May.  Twenty days,
approximately 700 miles, from the Yucatan to New Orleans. I understand he
has a book in progress. 

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