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Re: DISTANCE TO PADDLE
Posted By: BERT In Response To: Re: DISTANCE TO PADDLE (dave mcadoo)
Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2000, at 6:07 p.m.
: A couple suggestions to help the wannabe racers and leisurely paced people
: enjoy the day together. Suppose you are putting in 2 miles downstream from
: a bridge and paddling 4 miles downstream to an island. Tell the faster
: people to paddle up around the bridge and all will meet down at the
: island. Or have the 4 fast ones go on a minitrip around an island to
: really stretch it out. The main rule is to establish rules ahead of time
: as to who is leader(safety director). But kaywakers are often loners doing
: their own thing. My post about fatal attraction was a nasty tale about us
: planning a trip the weekend of 100mph race boats and we could have been
: killed. But on the subject of speed- the speed of my boats does separate
: me from other people so in the spring I might join a sprint race club. If
: you go to www.nymcra.org/ , you might see that quite a few people in
: their 40's can do a 25 mile race in 3.5 hours. It does require some
: training and effort but if I am not putting forth some effort then why
: bother? It might be inspirational to some to know it is possible to start
: paddling in your 40's and work up to a 90 mile race that is 30 miles a day
: with 5 miles of carrying. The main barrier to most is getting too fired up
: about tv to really do something in your own life. Happy paddling and may I
: please suggest you mention to those with a need for speed that there are
: 10- 15 mph kayaks out there waiting for someone to rip holes in the water
: and really blast along in the power of God Almighty!
I'd like to thank everyone for the articulate responses to my question,it certainly helps to have such a guideline when planning tours with my friends.
I recently read "Paddle to the Arctic" by Don Starkell where he tells the story of his 3000 mile kayak trip across the top of Canada.He kept accurate logs of each day,elapsed time,daily GPS readings and calculated his Mph each day and he said he averaged 5 miles per hour ,sometimes 4.6 sometimes 5.2 in fairly calm conditions.I thought this was a bit optimistic for my calculations but I'm sure Don was a very strong paddler and didn't have anything else to do but pour the coals to his twin armstrong engines.I think 3 mph is a reasonable guestimate for my crew.
Blue skies and soft landings to everyone.
Bert
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