By
Dexter Mahaffey
To take to the sea in a kayak is to know humility. To cross the sea in a kayak alone is to know God. It’s no wonder then, that sea kayak expeditioners are, by and large, a modest bunch. They’ve been there and back, and are a different sort from the rest of us. Undoubtedly that’s why so little is known about the great sea kayak expeditions: The practitioners aren’t all self-promoters. But the tales bear telling: surviving for months on cans of condensed milk or staving off starvation by eating toothpaste; crossing the ocean alone with no radio; facing a heaving slurry of sea ice in the surf zone. The greatest sea kayak expeditions brush up against the limits of human endurance and mark the frontiers of the human experience.
They are:
1. Franz Romer’s Atlantic Crossing, Portugal to Puerto Rico, 1928
2. Hannes Lindemann’s Atlantic Crossing, 1956
3. Paul Caffyn’s Australia Circumnavigation, 1981
4. Ed Gillet’s California to Hawaii Crossing, 1987
5. John MacGregor’s Rob Roy Expeditions, 1860s
6. Derek Hutchinson’s North Sea Crossings, 1975, 1976
7. Frank Goodman et al., First Circumnavigation of Cape Horn, 1977
8. Peter Bray’s North Atlantic Crossing, 2001
9. John Dowd’s Indonesian Journey, 1969
10. Jon Turk’s Japan to Alaska Expedition, 2000
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