Re: [Paddlewise] Granta Folding boats

From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 16:53:33 +1300
> > and
> > that in 1932 Fridel Meyer of Germany paddled a Folbot from Bravaria to
> > London.
>
>She also won some race against all comers circumnavigating Great Britain or
>most of a circumnavigation anyway.

A full article about her in Sea Kayaker magazine a few years back. The 
"race" was against an Englishman who paddled just a little further north up 
the east coast of Britain than her before he too gave up. She paddled along 
the south coast the next year before giving up. I don't think carrying the 
dog helped much.

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

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