[Paddlewise] High Fashion Goes Kayaking

STAR OF THE SMALL SCREEN KAYAKS EVERY DAY

This month’s issue of GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY magazine, March
2001, contains an interview with singer-actor Chris Isaak
who is currently in Vancouver filming a new Showtime
project to be called The Chris Isaak Show.  The entire
piece focuses on Mr. Isaak’s eight month old hobby of
kayaking and includes two pictures of him with his
bonnie-wee-boatie in the Lotus Land harbor.  

Mr. Isaak’s Hollywood lifestyle shows through in his
preference to go paddling every night around midnight; and
to snack with raccoons and other creatures he encounters on
fruit, cheese, and cracker arrangements he acquires during
the day.   He reports that the local wildlife go wild for
salmon pate; but the desert-of-choice is Mars bars, proving
BC coons are not just stuffed shirts with a fur coat and a
mask.  (The don’t-feed-the-animal activists must be lunging
for their keyboards.)  Issak paddles solo, but manages to
get peeks into motorboats where he sometimes sees things
that the occupants, he admits, think no one else is
watching.  

Chris paddles a ruddered yellow-top, white-hulled
fiberglass boat and carries a spare paddle and cherry-red
gear bag on the aft deck.   His main paddle is black
shafted with white blades.  He sports a nylon solid-black
outside/blue-lined paddling jacket over an ash hooded
sweatshirt, which he wears over a neoprene spray skirt.  

There is no PFD visible, though it looks like he may have
that under his paddling jacket also.  One can't help but
wonder if he always wears it that way, or if it just didn't
work with the banana colored deck.  

This started out to be informational only; but it begs
reporting that the gear bag needs to go or to have the
color picked up somewhere else.  The jacket lining would be
a natural.

Tom Dowling



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