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Jed Hawkes
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   Topic: Impressive feat
Posted: 30 Nov 2010 at 5:15pm |
Found a blog chronicling the trans-Atlantic Kayaking passage of 66 year old Alaksander Doba from Poland. Check it out. http://transatlantic2010.blogspot.com/
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Ellingferd
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Posted: 01 Dec 2010 at 9:28am |
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If you thought that was badass, look up the dude who did the Tasman solo. Andrew Macauley. He made it to within a few miles of New Zealand and was taken out by a rogue wave. Probably one of the greatest things done in a kayak in recent years,regardless of discipline. There was a film about it in last years Banff film festival. It made class V expedition boating look easy.
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Ellingferd
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Posted: 01 Dec 2010 at 9:28am |
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The film is "Solo"
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up4air
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Posted: 01 Dec 2010 at 10:51am |
Just saw this year's Banff fest. The long feature was the story of the two young men who successfully paddled across to New Zealand in a custom kayak. They did have McAuley in there but didn't say how far he got, just that he went missing, and suggested he may have rushed his departure to beat the kids in Lot 41 http://www.crossingtheditch.com.au/ . Tragic that he left a widow and toddler. At least the two boys were unattached, but the movie focused on the stress this adventure caused their immediate families.
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More water, please.
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Ellingferd
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Posted: 01 Dec 2010 at 12:27pm |
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Interesting they are presenting this in the 2010 fest. Seems like some kind of rebuttal of sorts. There is commentary on these two in last years film "Solo" and McAuley addressed their attempt. From what I remember he didnt really see them as competittion for a few reasons. One, there are two of them and, two, the craft they paddled has a cabin of sorts allowing them to do a lot of things you cant when you are solo in a traditional kayak. McAuley only had the bubble that would cover the cockpit allowing him to slip down in his boat to sleep, but that was the only modification to his boat. It also made it impossible to roll if he was paddling it since the cover would fill with water, meaning every time he rolled he had to wet exit, roll the kayak, and then get back in. This happened to him a few times, mostly in big, big storms.
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Ellingferd
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Posted: 01 Dec 2010 at 12:33pm |
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From what I also remember the two took a different route further north from McAuley's which gave them slightly milder conditions than they could have experienced had they left from where McAuley did (Tasmania to the South Island)
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GHannam
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Posted: 02 Dec 2010 at 2:39pm |
It's becoming more common for people to do trans-Atlantic crossings, by many types of vessels, but this dude is 66 years old. Props to him!! I hope I'm in good enough shape to do something like that when I'm 66 years old...
Thanks for sharing, Jed 
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jP
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Posted: 03 Dec 2010 at 10:29am |
thanks for the link! Man, talk about perseverence! any of these trans oceanic crossings in a kayak rank higher than any other accomplishments in a kayak, IMO.
Simply due to the hardship, isolation, exposure, and the astronomical duration of such.
Nice Avatar, Jed!
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