Re: [Paddlewise] ?? for old salts and ol

I nominate Sam Cook for the Kayakers Hall of Fame. He was the leader
(I think) of the Nordkapp expedition of around 1975. At the time,
British sea kayakers were using mostly 16-foot kayaks, such as the
Anas Acuta, with no bulkheads or built-in bilge pumps or compasses.
In the course of preparing for this unsupported expedition, its
members decided they needed a longer, faster kayak, which they
persuaded Frank Goodman of Valley Canoe Products to build. Thus was
born the famous Nordkapp kayak. Because of problems rescuing a swamped
kayak during a trial run, they added bulkheads, which necessitated
watertight hatch covers. They also added built-in compasses and bilge
pumps. Thus the modern British sea kayak was born.

Cook gave a slide talk on this and other aspects of early British sea
kayaking, as he experienced it, at the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium
last year. It was fascinating to see slides of the expedition's
different attempts to invent a watertight hatch.

Cook is little known in North America compared to Derek Hutchinson,
who also claims a number of firsts (some of which, I understand, are
disputed in Britain). Hutchinson told my wife and me at another
symposium that he invented the reentry and roll and the technique
of waving the hands on both sides of the kayak when signaling for an
Eskimo rescue. (However, F. Spencer Chapman mentions waving his hands
[plural] to signal for an Eskimo rescue in Greenland in his 1932 book
_Northern Lights_.)

Chuck Holst

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From: Karen H. [mailto:magpi_at_access1.net]
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I'm enjoying all the bios and am impressed by all the experience we've
got on this list!

I was wondering, and maybe you people who have been involved with
kayaking forever can tell me... is there any person, or any
technological advance that's made a major contribution to the sport, or
changed it in a big way? In other words, is there a kayakers "Hall of
Fame"? Are there names or events we newbies should become familiar with?
And what do you think... is kayaking (as a sport) still in it's infancy,
and what changes might there be in the future? (The bike pedaled
sit-on-top comes to mind... I think it's a Hobie.)

Hope I'm not getting WAY out there, but I'm kinda curious....  :-)
   
Karen
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San Clemente, CA
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