As a rabid NPR listener and a big fan of Jon Turk we were driving home yesterday when my wife and I heard Dick Gordon from “the Story”, mention Jon Turk and his journey to Ellesmere Island. I was fortunate enough to meet Jon Turk a few years ago at WMCKA. His talk was one …
Category Archive: Adventurers
Feb
03
The Season by film maker Bryan Smith
The Season Trailer from Fitz Cahall on Vimeo. Bryan Smith formerly of Body Boat Blade, and now of Reelwater Productions in British Columbia has a new web tv series hitting the internet called simply The Season. The sponsors are impressive, (Arcteryx Outdoor Research, New Belgium Beer) for a paddling film which usually has the same …
Aug
31
New Guest Blogger, John Fleming
I’ve been paddling with John for almost a year now. John has a great sense of adventure, and comes to kayaking from a wide experience in skiing, climbing and mountain bike racing. John holds a BCU 3 star award for sea kayaking. John was also a participant in the aptly named, 2008 survival paddle in …
May
28
20th Annual WMCKA Symposium Guest Speaker Jeff Allen
Jeff Allen co-owner of Sea Kayaking Cornwall visited this year to instruct and speak. Jeff came a day early to give an instructor update for the WMCKA instructional staff. The topic this year was incident management. Jeff has written a series of articles for Ocean Paddler magazine. Jeff is also writing a book on the …
Feb
20
Jon Turk Logic vs Magic
Jon Turk Adventurer and Dreamer WMCKA was blessed to have Jon Turk give a talk at our annual symposium in 2007. Jon gave an excellent talk about why we make journeys. Are they for rational reasons, or are they based on more intangible things, like dreams. This is an oversimplification, but it is the crux …
Jan
27
Shawna Franklin and Kathy Miller Rolling Double Greenland Style
The technique to rolling a double sea kayak is no different than rolling a single kayak, with one exception. Syncopation. You have to roll together or all bets are off. The other technique is that either the front paddler tucks forward and the rear paddler rolls both up or vice-versa. Obviously Shawna and Kathy have …
Oct
31
David Goggins Ultramarathoner Video-limit of the human spirit
David Goggins Ultramarathoner I found this video on facebook of all places: Titled marathon videos. David, who is also a Navy Sealcompleted the Mcnaughton 150 mile ultra-marathon in 33 hours. In this motivational video he says quite a bit about the drive to finish things, to keep trying, and to perservere. For me this is …
May
29
WMCKA Sea Kayak Symposium 2008-My Home is The Sea
WMCKA Sea Kayak Symposium 2008 My Home is the Sea Every year I attend the WMCKA Sea Kayaking Symposium it takes me a few days to absorb the impact of what it means to me. It is easy to say this happened and that happened. It is also easy to say this is the one …
May
20
Greg Stamer Sea Kayak Circumnavigation of Newfoundland
Greg Stamer will attempt to circumnavigate Newfoundland by Sea Kayak starting June 1st 2008. He needs a little assistance getting his Nigel Dennis Greenlander Pro kayak transported there. Greg is now a veteran of an Icelandic circumnavigation with Freya Hoffmeister. Their circumnavigation set a record for the number of days (33 days). If you think …
Mar
23
Is Sea Kayaking a Commercial Sport?
Is Sea Kayaking a Commercial Sport? I was asked by my good friend of LuckyKitchen.com Aeron Bergman’s father a good number of years ago when Turtleneck.net was still in action if I felt that the internet was over-saturated with content. It was a really interesting question. I didn’t really have the context at the time …
