Re: [Paddlewise] Sleeping in your sea kayak...

Arthur Hebert wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Ives <ssives_at_erols.com>
> To: Howes, Damon - MAJ <howesd_at_eustis.army.mil>;
> paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
> Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Sleeping in your sea kayak...
> 
> >Damon,
> >
> >  I think you are wrong about Dr. Lindemann.  I think he crossed the
> >Atlantic twice - first in a dugout canoe, and then in a double Klepper
> >folding kayak.  Of course, I'll defer to Ralph Diaz if I have the facts
> >wrong here!
> >
> >Damon wrote
> >
> >:...  Dr Lindemann's in a single inflatable with an outrigger, etc.
> 
> Damon was right single 17 feet long  36" beam
> Arthur Hebert

Dr. Lindemann first did the trip in an African dugout freighter canoe. 
Then he decided to do it again.  It most definitely was not an
inflatable  boat nor was it a single.  It was a doublefolding kayak, a
Klepper Aerius II bought without fanfare from the company in Germany and
shipped to him in the Canary Islands.  They had no idea who he was nor
what he intended to do so it came to him in stock form.  The only
changes he made to the boat was to setup an outrigger, place a
mizzensail behind them with a half paddle for a mast, and had an extra
layer of canvas sewn on to the entire rear deck and slightly up
alongside him in the cockpit.

When I asked him in an interview for Sea Kayaker and my own newsletter
what was his most difficult moment he said "buying the boat!!"  He had
little money and was paying for everything out of his own pocket.

ralph diaz
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