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/ ***************************************************************************
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. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
> 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 1st: How long does the crossing have to be? Of course folks on the Western Gulf Coast are pretty much out of luck as there aren't any islands to hop to over blue water. Though Matagorda Island involves a couple miles of open water, though not blue. Floridians and Alaskans have tons of possibilities for such, and so, probably they happen quite often by folks camping by kayak. Richard Walker Houston, TX http://www.neosoft.com/~rww/kayak_log.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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. Not to toot my own horn, but you might take a look at "Point Conception to Mexico-A Common Man Kayak Adventure" that I published in May, 1998. It's a kayak journal about my 10 surfing pals and I that kayaked 344 miles from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border with surfboards bungeed to the stern of the kayaks. Take a peek at it on at amazon.com. Other kayak books and articles that I've enjoyed are "Kayaking the Vermilion Sea" and of course Ed Gillet's account of his trip from Monterey, California to Hawaii. David *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
>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. And Arthur has a Web page up: http://homepages.gs.net/seacajun He's doing the expedition as a fundraiser for Juvenile Rumatoid Arthritis, hoping to do a return trip, it sounds to me. Hank Hays *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 19-11-1998 6:37:55 PM EST, powdrell_at_silcom.com writes: Thanks, David. Toot on, dude, it sounds like a great trip! > Other kayak books and articles that I've enjoyed are "Kayaking the Vermilion > Sea" Is this a book? Who's the author? And of course Ed Gillet's account of his trip from Monterey, California > to Hawaii. Is this a book or an article? > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Thanks, David. Toot on, dude, it sounds like a great trip! It was a great trip, thanks. 19 days of paddling and surfing remote California beaches. > Other kayak books and articles that I've enjoyed are "Kayaking the Vermilion Sea" Is this a book? Who's the author? Yes, it's a book and the author is Jonathan Waterman. It's about his adventure paddling the Sea of Cortez with his wife. And of course Ed Gillet's account of his trip from Monterey, California to Hawaii. Is this a book or an article? It's a two page article. You can access it at http://www.swkayak.com/hawaii_trip.html There's a "_" between the words Hawaii and trip in the e-mail address, but with the address underlined, the "_" doesn't show up. I hope that makes sense. Anyone else interested in kayaking the Santa Barbara area should check out http://www.sbka.org We recently did a blue water paddle from Santa Barbara to Santa Cruz Island, an eleven hour trek across a relatively dangerous channel. Pictures of the adventure are at the sbka website. > And finally, there's a wonderful book called "Maiden Voyage" written by Tania Aebi about her trip around the world in a small sailboat. She elected to sail around the world in lieu of going to college, the two options given to her by her father. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
VajraT_at_aol.com wrote: > > Can we generate a list of all the published accounts of blue-water passages by > kayak? (And canoe?) Steph Dutton did a solo trip down the west coast of North America. I can't remember if it was Alaska to Baja or only Washington to California. Does anyone know of a book or article about this trip? We saw Steph at the East Coast Symposium last spring. Excellent speaker. Steve -- Test Scoring & Reporting Services Sometimes, you never can University of Georgia always tell what you Athens, GA 30602-5593 least expect the most. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
At 08:48 AM 11/20/98 -0500, Steve Cramer wrote: > >Steph Dutton did a solo trip down the west coast of North America. I >can't remember if it was Alaska to Baja or only Washington to >California. Does anyone know of a book or article about this trip? > >We saw Steph at the East Coast Symposium last spring. Excellent speaker. > >Steve >-- Steve, you're right, Steph is a very good speaker, and quite a heroic paddler of awesome skills combined with daredevil risktaking. Cool head, too. But the original post included: "This list would exclude long river or coastal trips, however heroic. -- Let's say ocean crossings and long salt-water island-hopping passages." Not to take away from his accomplishments, but I believe both Steph's B.C. to B.C. (British Columbia to Baja California) and his wintertime Oregon coast traversal have been done by hopping from point to point along the coast, rather than bluewater (open ocean)crossings. He has published a few articles in Sea Kayaker magazine over the past 3-4 years. I have found all of those instructive, for example his method of launching through LARGE surf by paddling into an oncoming breaker, then timing a roll while using a breathing tube into the cockpit. If Steph has a book published I would sure like to know about it. Cheers, John Somers *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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