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For White - Water Slalom and Cruising He Hart-Sioux Kayak Gives T You Everything-Maneuver- Ability for Slalom, Bucket-Seat Comfort for Cruising, Dash And % ITE WATER TRACK! For White - Water Slalom and Cruising he Hart-Sioux Kayak gives T you everything-maneuver- ability for slalom, bucket-seat comfort for cruising, dash and. stability. for white water and surfing. Offers unique features: elevated deck seat for single- blade paddling, recessed cross- 7 - -.,.-.. , braces, and backrests and seats zLSy - which are adjustable to several 1: positions. The Adventurer (illus- trated) is supplied with all standard accessories plus pad- dle pockets and four keelstrips for one low price. Write for free Paul Kenworthy, a winner in the Brandywine folder. Slalom, 1960. Note wet suit. FOLDCRAFT KAYAK COMPANY @daytrip. thru San Juan qorpe 4day trips in upper San Juan i and Glen Canyon. Bluff to gorge. Bluff Clty to Clap Hih lhe Creek. at*. SWng datw Crossring. Starting dates May 2lst May 27th and June 15th. and June 6th. 7-day Mps-Glen Canyon of.the Colorado. HPte Ferry to Kane Creek. Utah. Start- ing dates June 28th. July 8th. August 8th, August 10day trip. Cataract Canyon of 3day Sandwave SpeciaL Ship- the Colorado. Moab. Utah to Hite rock, New Mexico to Bluff. Utah. Ferry. Starling date July 26th. Startlng date May 18th. We also run one-day trips, Bluff City to Mexican Hat. Utah, every-day through mid-ruly. Ride our boats or paddle your own kayaks and canoes with support from the boats. A postcard will bring you our complete schedule, details of our trips and prices. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY. - A- . WHITE WATER Sponsored by The American White Water AfTliation Volume VII May, 1961 Number 1 Contents ARTICLES The Kayak Surfing in the West ....................... Don Golden 5 American Canoe Surfing in the East ........................ Mike Howes 10 White Water Youghiogheny Escapade .............................. Tom Smyth 14 Affiliation Making Knee-Straps for a Canoe ............. Bob McNair 16 Wilderness Cruise by Foldboat Executive Secretary Thomas D. & M. Louise Brock 18 DAVE MORRISSEY 1663 South Lafayette The Psychology of Esquimautage ........ George Siposs 22 Denver 10, Colorado DEPARTMENTS Advisory Committee Chrm. MATRICE POSADA Letters .... 2 417 Riverside 1)rive ................................................................ York 25, hT. Y. From Your Editor 23 Editorial Chairman Conservation Comment ............................. Dan Bradley 25 PETER D. WHITNEY White-Water Camera ..................... Martin Vanderveen 28 Inverness, California Secretary's Soapbox ............................. Dave Morrissey 30 Conservation Chairman DANIEL K. BRADLEY AWA Summer Trips ............................................................. 31 312 West 92nd Street ...................................... George Siposs 33 Xew York 25, N.Y. Racing Report Safety As We See It .................................. Red Fancher 35 Safety Chairman . JOITS BOMBAY AWA Affiliates ..................................................................... 36 601 Oakland Ave. Oaklam1 11, C:alifornia Editor : Peter D. Whitney, Inverness, California illemhership Chairman Eastern Editor: Eliot DuBois, Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, Mass. HAROLD G. KIEI-IM Mih.est Editor : 2019 i\d(lison Street Sancy C. Jack, 805 Sandusky Ave., Kansas City 1, Kans. Chicago 18, Illinois Racing Editor: George Siposs, 5 McArthur Ave., Weston, Ontario Guidel ook Chairman Business Manager : Patricia Vanderveen, 5432 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago 15, Illinois WALTER KIRSCHRAUM Route 1, Box 527 Circulation Xanager : Prank Cockerline, 118 Dell1;rook Ave., San Francisco 27, Calif. >Iorrison, Colorado Eastern .4dvertising : Lil~raryChairman John Berry, 5914 Greenlawn Drive, Rethesrla 14, Maryland ROBERT bIORSE Midwest Adrertising : El Paso, Illinois Ilarry Knrshenlaum, 6719 N. Greenview Ave. Chicago 26, Illinois \Vestern .4dvertisint: : Trip Planning Chairman Douglas Simpson, 1015 Keith, Berkeley 8, Calif. OZ HALVKSLEY American WHITF, IVATER is mailed to all members of the American Routc 5 White IVater Aff~hat~onIn May. August, Noveml~er and Felxuary. IVarrenshurg, Missouri Membership is open to all who are interested in river sport, for the sum of $2.50 per year. Business Manager The magazine welcomes contril:utions of articles, photographs and drawings, i)ut assumes no responsildity for them. Address all editorial P.4TRTCIA YAKDERVEEX material to ihe Managing Editor ,or to the nearest Regional Editor. 5432 S. Woodlawn Ave. Correspondence regar+ng the Affihation or hoat~ngmformat~on should Chirago 15, Illinois I:e sent to the Execut~reSecretary, Dave Xorr~ssey,1662 So. Lafayette, Denver 10, Colo. Deadline for insertion of copy or advertising - first of month prior to month of issue. Printed in the United States of America Cover: Don Golden "Sliding" the Surf Off Santa Cruz, California Leica, 200 rnrn Kornura; Adox KB 14; f.8, 11200 March 15, 1961 rescuer, or until a good opportunity To the Editor: presents itself to swim to shore." In I am deeply bothered by the insistent other words, we want the overturned recommendation by the AWA to "hang boater to train himself to think and to onto the boat" after an upset. Our only observe. drowning occurred because the paddler Elsa B. Bailey, hung onto his boat unwisely, and was Chairman, Sierra Club perhaps motivated by the same type of Bay Chapter River emphasis in his native Poland. Touring Section Rescue procedure was initiated within a minute or so after the upset, just below the haystacks involved. A rope was thrown and caught by the February 28, 1961 man in the water at least four times, Dear Peter: but he would not let go of his boat To go over Niagara Falls in a barrel which was full of water. One rescuer's and to live thereafter is not to vanquish clear instructions to "let go of the boat" the falls. Which brings me to Walter went unheeded, and he was unable to Burmeister's piece regarding the lower pull the man and boat to shore. Eventu- Neversink River. It was I who led an ally everyone overturned during the AMC scouting group of four persons in rescue proceedings, but everyone else two open canoes, 1948. Two of the party reached shore without undue trouble. were novice to intermediate at that Everyone wore a life preserver with time. We got about half way through ample head and body flotation. The and were overtaken by that insur- rescue operations then proceeded from mountable obstacle, a combination of shore, but without success. darkness or lateness and fatigue. We After about an hour in extremely gave up and walked out. cold water, and having gone through As I recall it Chapin Jackson, who two bad rapids, the man hung up in a was with us, later wrote a "Note" on shallow rocky stretch with his head the subject for Appalachia and it may hanging down in the water. have been he who said the Neversink In another instance in Salida, during never would be run. It was not I. a slalom on the Arkansas, a girl over- In any event, some one should have turned and hung onto her boat scream- said that it never should be run; that ing for helpjust 10 to 15 feet from is, it should not be run by any run-of- shore on a fast but unimpeded flat the-mill group. I am fearful that Bur- stretch of water. The shore jutted out meister may give the impression that several hundred yards below, catching now that the KCCNY has "vanquished" some logs and snags in the back eddy. the gorge, it is open to all comers, and The girl was almost swept under these that is definitely not the case, for the logs before the surprised onlookers got version I have heard of their voyage into effective action. She had ample has no relation to a pleasure trip, as time to swim to shore several times confirmed by Burmeister where, in over. describing just one of the pitches, he For this reason, we stress "hang onto says of these experts, "It is little won- the boat until given a direction by a der that most of the foldboats capsized American WHITE WATER and the decked canoe was swamped." I March 17, 1961 cannot agree that to successfully run a Dear Friend: river means to live thereafter. In the May edition, Leo C. Lake writes about "the most powerful of all Be that as it may, I wish I had been v with them! Let all aspirants to the kayak strokes -the new Colorado Lower Neversink Gorge beware. Hook. Really, I must say, there is nothing new in this stroke. It was used Murray Spear, in Czechoslovakia and other countries 711 Valley Rd., in the first years of the development Mahwah, New Jersey of slalom, that is in 1950-55. But then we ceased to use it, and already the Ed. Note: It's alzclays difficult to salute one first edition of my book Vodni Slalom success without seeming to deprecate earlier (P. 63, stroke F10) does not recommend achiez~ements.The AMC group's feat in fight- using it. ing halfway dozun the gorge in open canoes To use it in these days in Europe was as remarkable in its way as the KCCNY's. could bring smiles to the faces of the spectators. The best result we obtain by use of the stroke which you un- Dear Peter, rightly call the Duffek stroke. That is March 16, 1961 no Duffek stroke. It is the technique The problem of navigability rights on which we Czechs translated from the our waterways is one of utmost concern Canadian canoe (our nation, just as you, to canoeists here in New England. is first of all a canoe, not kayak nation Simmonds's investigation into the legal like Germany) to the kayak. And aspects of the problem is a most wel- Duffek only gave this stroke the highest come contribution, but his proposed effectiveness and exported it to the method of assuring "free passage" by whole world. So he is not the inventor, lawsuit is disturbing. Aside from its he is exporter. being in most cases impractical and Try your Colorado stroke in really legally untenable, the unfriendly rela- difficult water-and the others must tions generated would be most unfor- hurry to pick you from the water.
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