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The Sea Canoeist Newsletter The Sea Canoeist Newsletter No. 85 February - March 2000 THE SEA CANOEIST NEWSLETTER Chris Duff with adoring fans at Rapahoe Beach, prior to launching enroute to Westport. Chris passing the editor's house at the 12 Mile, on 24 March 2000. The Journal of the Kiwi Association of Sea Kayakers (N.Z.) Inc. - KASK 1 No. 85 February - March 2000 KASK KASK BADGES SEA KAYAKING KASK, the Kiwi Association of Sea Canterbury paddler Rod Banks pro- Kayakers (N.Z.) Inc., a network of duced a badge of a paddler and sea NETWORK New Zealand sea kayakers, has the kayak from solid sterling silver, with objectives of: KASK NZ engraved. The badge can CONTACT 1. promoting and encouraging the be permanently or termporarily af- sport of sea kayaking fixed to hats T shirts, ties, evening ADDRESSES 2. promoting safety standards gowns or dress suits but not dry suits. 3. developing techniques & And the badge is appealing to the eye. Auckland Sea Kayak Network equipment Size is 23mm long by 11mm high. Vincent Maire 4. dealing with issues of coastal 7 Motuora Rd, Manly access and protection Price is $15 plus $1 P+P, and avail- Whangaparoa, 1463 5. organizing an annual sea kayak able from the KASK Secretary, Helen Ph: (09) 424 2293 forum Woodward. Fax: (09) 424 0385 6. publishing a bimonthly email: [email protected] newsletter. LRB2 - KASK webpage: nzkayak.co.nz The Sea Canoeist Newsletter is pub- HANDBOOK 2nd. Canterbury Sea Kayak Network lished bimonthly as the official news- Andy & Deirdre Sheppard letter of the Kiwi Association of Sea Ed. Ph: (03) 342 7929 Kayakers (N.Z.) Inc. For a copy of this mother of all sea Sea Kayak Operators Assoc. of NZ kayaking handbooks, contact KASK Bronwyn Duff, Admin. Officer Articles, trips reports, book reviews, Secretary Helen Woodward: PO Box 255 equipment reviews, new techniques, 82 Hutcheson St. Picton letter to the editor, and moments when Blenheim Ph: (03) 573 6505 the word 'Bugger!' was said singu- email: [email protected] Fax: (03) 573 8827 larly or often {referred to by some as COST: incidents} are sought to enliven the New members: gratis Bay of Plenty Sea Kayak Network pages of the newsletter. Existing members: $10 + $1 p&p Dusty Waddell, Ph: (07) 572 4419 Non-members: $18 + $1 p&p Send in a plain brown envelope, or via Jean Kirkham, Ph: (07) 552 5982 cybermail to: Make cheques out to KASK (NZ)Inc Wellington Sea Kayak Network Editor: P Caffyn, Trade enquiries also to Helen. RD 1, Runanga. Beverley Burnett Cellphone: (025) 249 4116 West Coast .N.Z. THE LRB2, or the Little Red Book email: [email protected] Ph/Fax: (03) 7311806 2nd. Edition, is a mammoth compila- Web site: http://home.clear.net.nz/ E Mail address: tion on all aspects of sea kayaking in pages/wellseak [email protected] New Zealand, by many of the most experienced paddlers in the Universe. Auckland Canoe Club KASK Subscriptions are: Following a brief introduction, the PO Box 3523, Auckland. $20.00 per annum & cheques handbook is divided into six sections: Newsletter Editor: Julia Thorn should be made out to: - Kayak, Paddle & Equipment Ph: 09 575 3099 K.A.S.K. (NZ) Inc. & sent to the -Techniques & Equipment KASK Secretary: - The Elements Ruahine Whitewater Club Helen Woodward, - Trips and Expeditions 71 Salisbury St., Ashhurst. 82 Hutcheson St. - Places to Go Ph: 06 326 8667 Blenheim - Resources Ph: (03) 578 5429. Fax: 06 326 8472 email: [email protected] Each section contains up to nine sepa- ROTORUA CONTACT rate chapters. The Resources section, Graeme Muir Correspondence to the Secretary: for example has chapters on: 36 Buchanan Pl, Rotorua Helen Woodward, - guide to managing a sea kayak Ph / Fax: 07 3477106 82 Hutcheson St. symposium email: [email protected] Blenheim - Paddling Literature Ph: (03) 578 5429. - Author profiles NEW PLYMOUTH CONTACT email: [email protected] - Guides and Rental Operators Mark Gardner - Network Addresses 153 Seaview Rd, - Sea Kayaks in NZ listing New Plymouth Ph/Fax: (06) 753 9881 2 The Sea Canoeist Newsletter INDEX EDITORIAL Marlborough Sounds. Chris antici- There was comment in the media some pates finishing before Easter and hopes to attend the KASK Forum at New EDITORIAL p. 3 time ago of the age of adventure hav- ing shuffled off the mortal coil. The Brighton, Christchurch. NZ TRIP REPORTS adventures are still proceeding but with little acknowledgement or cov- BUGGER FILE SOUTH ISLAND SOLO Compiler of 'Bugger!' file report, Chris Duff's Journey: erage by the media. Waikato farmer Clinton Waghorn has completed the Cathye Haddock has included a few Dunedin to Bluff p.4 learning incidents from the Welling- Riverton to Milford Sound. p.5 first stage of a remarkable solo Alaskan paddling mission. In 1999 he set off ton area. At the recent Auckland Coast- Milford to Hokitika p.9 busters, I heard related several 'Bug- Latest to Greymouth p.9 from Prince Rupert in northern Brit- ish Columbia, and paddled north ger!' moments, two of which resulted from the need to pee. Please take the New Year Paddle p.13 through South East Alaska to Skagway. Transporting the kayak time to pen any moments when the word 'Bugger!' or worse has been ut- SAFETY and equipment to the head of the Yu- kon River, he paddled downstream to tered and mail to Cathye at 1/18, Avon Wellington Network Leadership St., Island Bay, Wellington. & Safety Training Course complete the first stage at the river by Beverley Burnett p.10 mouth in the Bering Sea. And North American paddle Chris Duff is well KASK FORUM on his way to completing the second Planning is well advanced for the WEBSITES p.13 solo South Island circumnavigation. Easter 2000 KASK Forum at New Brighton, Christchurch. Paddlers need THE 'BUGGER!' FILE CHRIS DUFF to book their own accommodation at from Cathye Haddock p.14 Chris Duff has certainly experienced the South New Brighton Motor Camp. And registration is necessary for ca- OVERSEAS TRIP REPORTS his fair share of ups and downs during his South Island solo circumnaviga- tering. Please get in touch with: 'No Reason' The Roof of Scotland Peter Sullivan Expedtion (3rd. installment) tion. And this bloke writes from the by I. Wilson & S. Morley p.16 heart. His account of the stint around 7 Monowai Crescent Fiordland is riveting reading, and I’m Christchurch 9. Ph: (03) 3883 380 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR sure he has more than enough mate- rial for a sequel to ‘On Celtic Tides’. email: [email protected] Stolen Boat Register p.23 COASTBUSTERS 2000 IN THE PRESS The night that Chris’s arrival at Mil- Over the weekend 17-19 March, Rescues and trips p.23 ford featured at the tail end of the 6pm TVNZ One news, the late evening Coastbusters was held at Puriri Park, news featured breaking of a story that Orewa, on Auckland's north shore. Chris’s kayak had been smashed on a The ASKNET red team organized beach north of Milford with a helicop- superb weather for a pleasant change ter rescue. Next morning Chris rang from previous years, and I thoroughly early to enquire about having his boat enjoyed myself. Friday night's slide repaired or the possibility of borrow- sessions included the trip by David ing a boat. The full gory details plus Herrington and Max Grant around Chris’s adventures since Dunedin, Stewart Island, and the first viewing have been compiled off his website by of Donna Hammond and Ross Sandy Ferguson, with the most recent Hickey's trip around Stewart Island. update after Chris surfed into Rapahoe Beach north of Greymouth. Workshops filled next morning and early afternoon and a great swimming Re the website address, several pad- pool demonstration of paddling dlers have emailed with difficulty ac- strokes, rolls and rescues rounded off cessing the site. The original address the afternoon. No one fainted during was correct but unfortunately it has the Greenland slide show that evening, been changed to: which was followed by a great nosh. http://www.goals.com The caterers commented that although only 100 paddlers were seated, enough Once around Farewell Spit, and clear tucker had been consumed for 150! of the trauma of dealing with open West Coast surf beaches, Chris hopes On Sunday 81 paddlers took to the to spend a little time both at Abel water for a BBQ lunch on Motuora Tasman National Park and in the Island. A great weekend. 3 No. 85 February - March 2000 eight to ten-footers. I made it all the and got a double scoop of boysenberry NEW ZEALAND way to St. Kilda’s Beach, which is on ice cream, then paddled out to the TRIP REPORTS the south end of Dunedin and the Nugget Light house. Beautiful arches terminus of the Otago Peninsula. I and a low thick swell out of the south- was very tired and did not really want east. The Nuggets mark the start of the SOUTH ISLAND SOLO to run the surf, but I had no choice. As Catlins, a very rugged and beautiful Chris’s Duff’s Journey from soon as I started to come in, I realised coast of massive sea cliffs and golden Dunedin to Bluff immediately that I timed the swells beaches. I camped that night at Canni- wrong. A huge boomer was closing in bal Beach. Later I asked some locals Compiled from Chris’s website by from behind at a fast clip. I spun the about its name. They said the beach Sandy (Alex) Ferguson boat around and managed to spring got the name from the human bones over the crests of the waves.
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