RE: [Paddlewise] Take-apart Kayaks : a serious question

Hi Patrick and all,
	The third person was Tom Berg of Maine Island Kayak Co.  I saw Tom's slide
show of the trip and it's absolutly awesome! As I understand it, Stan
paddled a Nordkap while Tom and Nigel were in Explorers. All three were
three-piece sectionals, very sexy!

Jed

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net
[mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net]On Behalf Of Patrick Maun
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:47 AM
Cc: paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Take-apart Kayaks : a serious question


Hey all and happy new year,

I attended a talk by Stan Chladek about his trip to the antarctic
with Niggel Dennis and a third whom I can't remember. They took take-
apart Romany Explorer's. He believed that folding boats would have
been damaged during the very rough rock,ice and surf landings they
were going to encounter (not to mention he doesn't carry them). I
believe that Valley and NDK offers a take apart option on all their
boats.

Their expedition, by the way, looked incredible.

-Patrick

At Tuesday, 8 January 2002, Rcgibbert_at_aol.com wrote:

>The takeapart option on my Valley Canoe Products boat adds something
less than 10 pounds. [SNIP]





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