The Sea Canoeist Newsletter No. 124 August - September 2006 THE SEA CANOEIST NEWSLETTER Traditional West Greenland seal hunting kayak - 1950 Photo: Peter Marden The Journal of the Kiwi Association of Sea Kayakers (N.Z.) Inc. - KASK 1 No. 124 August - September 2006 KASK 4th. Ed. KASK HANDBOOK Rotorua Kayak Club Updated to July 2006 7 Mahana Place, Rotorua KASK, the Kiwi Association of Sea For a copy (or trade orders) of this Ph: (027) 292 3138 Kayakers (N.Z.) Inc., a network of mother of all sea kayaking handbooks, email: [email protected] New Zealand sea kayakers, has the contact Paul Caffyn, RD 1, Runanga, GISBORNE Sea Kayakers Club objectives of: 7873, West Coast. 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Peter was a member of an days of drizzly weather, and it was 2007 KASK Forum Details p.11 Admiral MacMillan expedition, that obvious by the number of paddlers on had voyaged north through Davis the water that the demand was there for NETWORK REPORTS Strait on the schooner Bowdoin. on the water training and instruction. Waikato by Evan Pugh p. 4 Back in 1999, at the KASK Forum Although KASK was unable to book held at Clive, south of Napier, Peter Anakiwa for Easter 2007, an over- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Marden showed a film of this 1950 night paddle is planned from midday Paddle Leashes/Night Lights expedition, and also displayed tradi- Sunday to midday Monday. If you by Mark Hutson p. 5 tional Eskimo artefacts that were used can schedule in a sickie or mental for seal hunting from kayaks. health day for the Monday, the over- SAFETY MacMillan was with Peary on the night camp at Mistletoe Bay is a grand Safety Meeting; Lights & VHF radios 1909 expedition to the North Pole, way to fraternize with other paddlers, by Paul Hayward p. 7 and since that year, MacMillan had and members of the opposite, as well Another Word on Rescue been regularly voyaging north to help as a chance to view a grand variety of by Beverley Burnett p. 8 the Eskimos. The 1950 voyage was tents, kayaks and paddling parapher- his 29th trip. nalia, not to mention sampling a wide PADDLER PROFILE range of kayak kuisine and an excel- Nigel Foster Max Grant recently emailed the lent variety of wines. Be warned how- by Susan Cade p. 8 scanned image that appears on the ever to watch out for Kevin Kililea’s cover, and Peter via fax added some extremely hot dehydrated peas! Even CALENDAR more details. Etah lies north of Thule, the local ducks could not cope with Wet West Film Fest p.10 south of Kane Basin, and on the east these. Northland Forum p.10 side of Smith Sound - one of the most northerly Inuit settlements in recent NEWSLETTER MAGAZINE REVIEW times. Two of the Eskimos who had A wretched dose of seagull or alba- Kanu Culture sledged to the North Pole with Peary, tross flu is partly to blame for the late by Paul Caffyn p.15 Utak and Harrigan, were still alive in production of the newsletter. How- 1950. Peter also noted that the kayaks ever Susan Cade said the delay al- BOOK REVIEW were about 19’ long, 19” wide, and 9” lowed for confirmation of the speaker Inshore Britain deep. Seal skin was stretched over a for the 2007 forum and preparation of by Paul Caffyn p.15 light frame of driftwood and walrus registration form. ivory, all lashed together with seal HUMOUR p.16 skin raw hide thongs and gut sinew For the next newsletter, in view of sowing thread. providing early notice of the KASK NEWSLETTER INDEX Forum, I have held over a paddler Nos. 114 - 123 On the foredeck of the kayak, a har- profile of Percy W Blandford penned December 2004 - July 2006 p.18 poon is carried, plus throwing stick, by Alan Byde, a significant Incident line from the harpoon head to a seal- Review Report, compiled by Cathye skin float, as well as a rifle case. Haddock and John Kirk-Anderson, THANKS Thanks to Peter for use of the photo. which casts a critical eye over the To the the contributors who Tory Channel incident in newsletter put time and effort into 2007 KASK FORUM No.122, ‘ Unforgettable Rescue,’ and writing articles. The 2007 forum committee have con- a note on Lendal paddles by Alan firmed that Nigel Foster will be at- Hall. tending the Anakiwa forum as guest speaker. With the help of Water Safety THE NEW HANDBOOK DEADLINE NZ funding, NZOIA and KASK are A brief email from Ruth Henderson: For next newsletter also planning regional training work- ‘Well talk about blow my socks off, 15 November 2006 shops with Nigel as instructor. As and that was just opening the enve- Nigel has not featured previously in lope. Congrats to all who worked so the KASK newsletter, Susan Cade diligently and hard to give Kiwi pad- has written a paddler profile/ book- dlers such a great kayaking bible.’ DVD promotion article. 3 No. 124 August - September 2006 sultative forums to determine what values of recreation are to New Zea- NETWORK landers, and how they should be man- REPORTS KASK aged. The 200 participants were di- vided into five major groups initially Waikato Region Back Country, Front country/Com- & Some BASK trips September 2006 mercial, Manage and Advise/ and Date: 18 Sep 2006 Education and Health.