From: CHUCK@MULTITECH.COM (Chuck Holst)
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net (baidarka)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 08:00:47 -0500
Subject: RE: [baidarka] Superior Kayak Symposium
Sorry, the symposium was last weekend at Grand Marais, Michigan. The
next one will be about the same time next year -- or one to two weeks
earlier -- providing the committee can find enough volunteers. This is
probably the largest all-volunteer, non-commercial sea kayak symposium
in North America, topping 300 members this year, and as you can imagine,
the sheer logistics of such an operation -- especially finding enough
qualified escorts for the Friday tours of Pictured Rocks -- puts quite
a strain on a volunteer organization. However, coupled as it is with BCU
training classes and assessments earlier in the same week, this
symposium may very well have the highest ratio of certified instructors
to non-instructors of any symposium in the country.
In any event, it is Linda's and my favorite symposium, and this year
was our fifth trip to it in a row. Though most of the kayaks you will
see at it are of British manufacture, Mark Rogers always has a display
of his skin boats there, and Doug Van Doren and James Loveridge give
instruction and demonstrations of Greenland style paddling every year.
A special guest this year was Sam Cook, one of the members of the famous
Nordkapp Expedition, for which the Nordkapp kayak was designed. In a
personal history of the development of sea kayaking in Britain, Sam traced
the development of British kayak designs back to Greenland, the Anas Acuta
being one of the earliest British fiberglass kayaks. It was for this
unsupported 500-mile expedition that bulkheads, hatches, and built-in
compasses and bilge pumps were first added to kayaks.
Chuck Holst
-----Original Message-----
From: baidarka [mailto:baidarka@lists.intelenet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 7:09 AM
To: baidarka
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Superior Kayak Symposium
Chuck Holst wrote:
> Next weekend I will be trying out my new Greenland paddle at the Great
Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium on Lake Superior.
Can you provide more info on the Great Lakes Kayak Symposium. Next weekend?
does that mean the weekend of Aug.1 & 2, or the weekend of the 8 & 9? As Lake
Superior is so large, where on the lake will the symposium be held?
Thanks,
Karl Kulp