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SOUTH AMERICA CIRCUMNAVIGATION
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NEW ZEALAND NORTH TO SOUTH
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AUSTRALIA VANCOUVER ISLAND
TRANS-ATLANTIC EPIC
TIERRA DEL FUEGO Expeditions 2011
AROUND ELLESMERE ISLAND Accomplished 65-year-old sea kayaker Jon Turk will be joined by Erik Boomer— a rookie sea kayaker but top, young whitewater paddler—on a 100-day circumnavigation attempt of Ellesmere Island. The duo will start their trip in May around this High Arctic island—an estimated
1,400 miles of morph-
ing coastline formed by continuously changing ice conditions.
PADDLE TO THE OCEAN
Expedition leader and professional musician Zac Crouse will depart Ot- tawa, Ontario, this spring bound for the Atlantic Ocean at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He plans to film the trip and will be joined by various paddlers for the dif- ferent legs of his journey. Crouse and company will tackle 1,050 kilometers of rivers, including class IV whitewater, 216 kilometers of portaging and 250 kilometers of ocean, all in sea kayaks.
CIRCLING IRELAND This May, Jeff Allen and Harry Whelan— whose 2005 U.K. expedition still holds a circumnavigation record—have plans to beat the present Emerald Isle circ record of 33 days. Spectacular cliffed- out coasts, heavy surf and strong winds will make their goal of covering the 1,970 miles in 28 days a challenge.
SOUTH KOREA
Simon Osborne of England and Marin Medak of Slovenia set out in February to become the first people to kayak the coast of South Korea. They completed their 1,200-kilometer expedition suc- cessfully on March 14.
NEW ZEALAND NORTH TO SOUTH In February 2011, Kiwi photographer and paddler Jamie Sharp left Cape Reinga on the northern tip of New Zea- land for a six-leg trip down the coun- try’s east coast. Joined along the way by Canadian paddler Dave Briggs, the two hope to complete their journey in four and a half months at Stewart Island.
NEW ZEALAND SOLO CIRCUMNAVIGATION Ambitious amateur New Zealand pad- dler Tim Taylor left Tauranga on the North Island on November 27, 2010, in hopes of becoming the first solo paddler to complete the circumnavi- gation in a single season. Taylor is on track to finish the 5,300-kilometer round trip in May.
AROUND OZ Aussie Stuart Trueman began his solo expedition in Broome, Australia, a year ago, April. Trueman expects to cover the 16,000 kilometers in 16 months— he says it’s never been his intention to challenge Oz alums Freya Hoffmeister and Paul Caffyn’s times—finishing sometime this August. So far, he’s been plagued by illness, financial woes and a category 5 cyclone.
TRANS-ATLANTIC EPIC This February, Polish paddler Alexander Doba became the third person in his- tory (after Hannes Lindemann and Pe- ter Bray) to cross the Atlantic in a kay- ak. He departed Dakar, Senegal, solo on October 26, 2010, and completed the Herculean feat in Acarau, Brazil, 99 days and 5,394 kilometers later.
TIERRA DEL FUEGO Cackle TV filmmaker Justine Curgen- ven and paddling partner Barry Shaw celebrated New Years Day 2011 by embarking on a circumnavigation at- tempt of Tierra del Fuego’s elusive Isla Grande. Their effort to cover the 1,000 miles of notoriously rugged and weath- er-beaten coastline was cut short after seven weeks when Shaw suffered a repetitive strain injury, forcing them off the water.
SOUTH AMERICA CIRCUMNAVIGATION After
successfully completing a re-
cord circumnavigation of Australia in 2009, 47-year-old Freya Hoffmeister will leave Santiago, Chile, in Septem- ber 2011 on an attempt to be the first to paddle 22,000 kilometers around South America. She’ll spend 22 months on the water in three extended legs, aiming to finish in May 2014.
VANCOUVER ISLAND ANTI-EXPEDITION Body Boat Blade International owner/ operators Leon Sommé and Shawna Franklin are taking a different ap- proach to their 2011 circumnaviga- tion of Vancouver Island. Exhausted by the perpetual need to break distance, speed and time records, they are at- tempting to bust Sommé’s 1998 re- cord of 28 days (beaten in 2010 by Joe O’Blenis in 16 days) by adding 16 days for a total of 44 days out.
For more on these and other expeditions taking place in 2011 visit
www.adventurekayakmag.com/0013. —Michael Mechan
For more information, please email David (
david@stellarkayaks.com), or visit us at
www.StellarKayaksUSA.com
SURF SKIS Stellar has achieved a Surf Ski design that is
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