F &Jetsam lotsam VHF BY TIM SHUFF
Paddling for Albatross Hayley Shephard began the first solo paddle around South Georgia Island in January—490 nautical miles. Shephard is the first woman to solo circumnavigate Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands.—kayakingtosaveal-
batross.com
Coloured Kayaks Are Safer A team from
Surfski.info practiced scenarios with search and rescue authorities and found that red hulls are much more visible from the air than white ones—although both are very hard to see. Tey advise paddlers to use a brightly coloured boat and bright clothing, and to carry flares and a VHF radio because “you will see your rescuers long before they see you.” Waving an emergency space blanket also helped.—
surfski.info
Serial Thriller Filmmaker Justine Curgenven released her first two-DVD set, Tis Is the Sea 4, with footage of rock gardening in Baja, expeditions around New Zealand’s South Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands, and more. “Com- mando kayaker” Dubside’s tidal-whirlpool rolling sequence will silence all Greenland- style skeptics. Quotable: “When I was born, my real name was Dubside, but my parents didn’t know that.”—
cackleTV.com
1,000 Miles in One Week Te popular 740-kilometre (460-mile) Yukon River Quest can no longer call itself the world’s longest canoe and kayak race. Te Yukon 1000 kicks off in July, starting at Whitehorse and running 1,600 kilometres down the Yukon River into Alaska. Racers will be monitored by GPS, paddle 18 hours a day and are expected to take seven or eight days.—
yukon1000.com
1,000 Miles in One Place Last fall, Dick Wheeler, 78, paddled 1,000 miles to fundraise for his local library. In 1991, Wheeler became a Time magazine “Hero of the Planet” paddling from Newfoundland to Cape Cod to raise awareness about fisheries. Tis time he started and finished each day at his home in Wareham, Massachusetts, doing laps on a river on rough days. Quotable: “What I did today was sort of like training for the Bos- ton marathon by doing laps around the dining room table!”—
warehampaddle.wordpress.com
Cold, Hard Trash A kayak shop in Sweden, Pampas Kayak, now accepts payment in garbage. If you rent a kay- ak and bring back two bags of litter, you get 50 per cent off the cost of the rental.
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TOP PHOTO: HAYLEY SHEPHARD
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