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Never Lose an Issue Again I am hoping you can help me. I have been read- ing Adventure Kayak for years now and keep every issue; however, I cannot find the issue that has a recipe for cheese pancakes. I am dying to try the recipe. My four-year-old may have made off with it, but he’s not helping the cause. (He reads them on the can.)
Brad Jurkovic via email
No need to worry, Brad. Anytime an issue of Adventure Kayak mysteriously disappears in the bathroom, you can find a digital version on our website. Just go to
www.adventurekayakmag. com and click on Digital Magazines. Te recipe for cheese pancakes is in Early Summer 2009,
www.adventurekayakmag.com/adventurekayak- mag_earlysummer09
Real Estate Opportunity Tank you for the “Kayaker Dream Homes” article (Spring 2010,
www.adventurekayak-
mag.com/adventurekayakmag_spring10), but for most of us dreams are what they will stay— unless you do what I did. If you are retired there are homes at $30,000 to $60,000 in Manitou- wadge, Ontario. I live about the furthest any- one can live from the local lake and that’s one kilometre. It’s not big but I paddle or sail on it alone most days in the summer and there are other lakes very close. Pukaskwa National Park is about one hour’s drive away. Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon are close and there are river routes plus lakes too numerous to mention.
John Allsop Manitouwadge, Ontario
Recipe for Satisfaction I loved your article about kayakers’ dream homes. You are 100 per cent correct in the approach you took. My wife and I live on Lewis Lake 30 min- utes north of Halifax. We kayak plus lots of other activities. We all have too much stuff
in our lives. Te more stuff you have the more time and money it takes to maintain. Some- times I feel like a Chinese acrobat with spin- ning plates on poles. You get too many going and some fall off and break. Te less you have in life, the more time you have to be creative. I noticed that the folks you highlighted all take time to be creative. I love my solitude out here on the lake and I am only 15 minutes from Sackville, N.S., for logistics, but my wife and I discuss over our morning coffee about how we can reduce our stuff. If you can reduce, then you do not need to recycle or reuse it.
Nostalgia
these guys invent a sport was fantastic. Tere were many advancements going on. Ed- dyline kayaks were being vacuum bagged, which was a revolution in lightweight kayaks. At the time I was there, we were the only guys doing it. Within two to three years it was mandatory technology. Te boats were getting super light and super strong. I worked in production graphic design between ‘84 and ‘87 and did many press dead-
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lines at Sea Kayaker magazine. During that time I came in contact with the whole cast of characters you write about. John Dowd was the most impressive character in that group and was a big driver of ideas. We were pioneering paddle routes all over the Northwest, driving out to the freshly built
logging road to Fair Harbour on the west side of Vancouver Island and doing 10-day open ocean tours along the rocky coast to areas that were almost untouched and rarely seen. I am happy to see that someone has recorded the goings-on of that creative bunch of
kayakers. I do not think that any of them were able, at the time, to stand back and see where they were going. In the end, they have built a lasting sea kayaking industry. Tey did it the old-fashioned way: by getting their hands dirty and living the sport along the way. Attached is a pic of me racing my ‘80s vintage VCP Nordkapp in some races last
summer.
Bill McGown Bellingham, Washington
Note: For our 10th anniversary we’ve republished “Te Early Years” online at
www.adventu-
rekayakmag.com/features/features-kayaks/955-new-kayak-company.html.
When it comes right down to it, if you have
your health, some good friends and family for loving, good food, a warm fireplace and a few good books then what else do you need? Te photo of me is in a Current Designs
Squall on our lake. We are the first on the lake and the last off each year. I joke to the people on the lakes with their huge 450 hp boats that we get one hour per litre of water for our fuel.
Dave and Seely Alder Mt. Uniacke, Nova Scotia
CORRECTION
In our last issue (Spring, 2010) we in- correctly credited Freya Hoffmeister with the speed record for circum- navigating New Zealand’s South Is- land. That honour in fact belongs to Justine Curgenven and Barry Shaw who completed the route in 67 days in 2008. Hoffmeister took 70 days.
enjoyed the article “Te Early Years” (Summer 2004) about the history of sea kayaking. I worked for Tom Derrer in 1982 and was amazed at what was happening. Watching
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