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FOLDING Canoes & Kayaks XT-16 &XT-17


The XT-15 and XT-17 are solos that impress with great handling, good looks and compact packed size.


The XTs are high-performance touring kayaks. Get the XT-16 with both tandem deck and solo deck, and you have an efficient tandem kayak one day and a long-distance solo the next!


XT-15,


Channel16 COMMUNITY | EDITORIAL | CONTRIBUTORS | WATERLINES


RE: “EXPEDITION UPDATE: TRANS-ATLANTIC KAYAKER RIDING OUT THE WEATHER”


“YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE THE COURAGE OF A PERSON WILLING TO RISK HIS LIFE FOR AN ADVENTURE.”


Excerpted from a comment posted on Adventurekayakmag.com by ALEX COMMUNITY


Puffin


Kayaks are perfect travel companions. Great stability and pad- dling


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performance make Puffins


PakCanoes are excellent for remote wilderness trips or adventures closer to home. Light-weight, compact for easy travel and storage, yet rugged, dependable and easy paddling.


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8 ADVENTURE KAYAK | SPRING 2011


Going Alone From Andrew McAuley’s heart-wrenching journey in the film Solo featured in the 2011 Reel Paddling Film Festival (www.reelpaddling- filmfestival.com), to our continuing coverage of adventures by kayak worldwide—see “Paddling on Faith” (Early Summer 2010), “Speed Queen” (People, Spring 2010) and “Lost at Sea” (Early Summer 2007) for a hearty helping—we love daring expeditions as much as you do. Denis Dwyer deserves props for his 69-day, 1,250- mile solo expedition through Alaska’s Inside Passage; watch “Kayaking from Wrangell, AK to Juneau, AK” at www.adventurekayakmag. com/videos. Comments on Adventurekay- akmag.com ranged from the personal to the philosophical: Matthew Ross went alone around Vancouver Island and wrote, “I want to congratulate everyone who has completed that journey.” Following Aleksander Doba’s trans- Atlantic crossing odyssey, Alex wrote, “I won- der if he feels lonely out there by himself or if being out there, at one with nature, feels free?” Doba is due to finish his 3,300-kilometer jour- ney in late February; watch his progress—and that of other audacious adventurers—at www. adventurekayakmag.com.


End of an Era Readers were unanimously saddened to hear that Adventure Kayak will no longer be run-


ning the National Sea Kayak Symposium (www.adventurekayakmag.com/0006). “I am totally bummed,” wrote Beth Jones. “We tell everyone at all of our courses and clinics about your event,” wrote James Roberts and Dymp- na Hayes of Learn to Kayak. “It was such a blast, such great instruction and value.” Others mourned the lost opportunity to cut the rug: “I’ve been practicing my dance moves for the evening partehhh...where am I going to show- case them?” wrote PNW. The decision to end NaSKS was just as painful for us. But don’t stop dancing; you’ll be seeing way more of the Adventure Kayak team at other seasonal events. We’re quite excited about that.


Made with Love Conor Mihell’s feature on building your own boat inspired the crafty crowd (“Kayaks from Scratch,” Summer/Fall 2010, www.adventu- rekayakmag.com/0001). “Now to decide what style to build—skin-on-frame, stitch-and-glue or wood strip? Decisions, decisions,” wrote JackC on Adventurekayakmag.com. We for-


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