Re: [Paddlewise] Transworld seakayak trip - kayak types

From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:29:11 +1300
At 03:33 pm 29/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
>They are useing the same kayak as Chris: NDK, Romany 18's (without 
>skegs). That seems to be the kayak of chose for long trips. 

Not so if you consider all Paul Caffyn's trips (round the three islands of
New Zealand, Japan, round Australia, seaboard of Alaska) were in Nordkapps,
light and ultralight weight. Other paddlers' South Island sucessful
circumnavigations were in Nordkapps and one in a Southern Aurora (NZ
design). Unsucessful trips were in Arctic Raiders. As far as I know his and
Conrad's Greenland trips were also in Nordkapps.

Alex
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Alex (Sandy) Ferguson
Chemistry Department
University of Canterbury
New Zealand
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