[Paddlewise] Brits teach Greenlanders to kayak

This sounds like a John Winters joke, but a British kayaker is planning
to teach the East Greenlanders to kayak. Quoting from the London Times
Web site:

"The new expedition, which will take boats built to a traditional
Greenland design by Nigel Dennis Kayaks, of Anglesey, aims to restore
to the people of eastern Greenland a key part of their culture. The
Inuit there still hunt seal but use rifles and boats with outboard
motors. Mr Burnell said that they tended to see the kayak as dangerous,
a view that the team hopes to overcome by demonstrating the modern
unsinkable versions."

The complete article can be found at
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?3114961

I wonder what the Greenland National Kayak League will think of this?
For that matter, does anyone have any information about what happened
at their August meeting regarding the ACA and Nordkapp trust
certification programs?

Thanks to our local Welsh kayaker, Jeff Morgan, for pointing this
article out to me.

Chuck Holst



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