NYCkayaker NYCKayaker Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1

[Don & Martha]

Hi Eric,
 
The history of the sea kayak symposiums in the north east might have started with the Anorak and L.L. Beans symposiun on the U. Maine site on the Darmiscotta River in Maine in 1982 then moved to Castine at the Maritime academy where it ran for a number of years, is it still going? (Anorak was a monthly sea kayaking newsletter origionaly limited to 50 subscribers because that was when the fun wore off in using the copy machine and hand addressing the things.  That started a trend for a few years of these symposiums at locations kind of near here ranging from Hampton Rodes Virginia, the upper Chesapeake in Maryland, the Jersey Shore, SUNY Purchase and Mystic Conecticut.  
The Symposiums would have most of the Sea Kayak manufacturers attending with thier boats to try  and  home builders sharing thier boats and building techniques. The first rotomolded sea kayak the "Umniak" ?  was introduced at the SUNY Symposium about 1984. Fun times, neat people, great ideas, like extruded polystyrene (the pink, blue or sometimes green insulation foam) as a core for building boats, seeing a couple with a boat one year that had a few inches to much freeboard and the next year it was floating just right, he had taken a saber saw and taken out a few inches out of the length of the middle. And Bart Hauthaway demonstrating the English Gates. 
 
Don Betts
   
 
 
 
> Hello everyone,> TAPS, the trade association of paddlesports, is hosting the 1st annual> North East Canoe & Kayak Symposium September 6,7,8 2008.? The> symposium is based on the very successful West Coast Sea Kayak> Symposium model.? See below.> > www.gopaddle.org and? http://www.wcsks.org/> > There are over 40 boat manufacturers who provide boat demos,> instruction for beginners to advanced level paddlers and presentations> from Jon Bowermaster and others.? A full, fun weekend for paddlers and> ONLY one hour away from New York City.> > The event needs a logo.? TAPS would like to use the talents of the> paddling community to create a logo for the event.? It may even become> an annual contest.? Winner gets $200!!> > Submissions should come to me at ray at gopadle.org.> > DEADLINE IS Dec.? 21st.> > Thanks,> Ray > > > > ------------------------------> > _______________________________________________> NYCKayaker mailing list> NYCKayaker at rockandwater.net> http://www.rockandwater.net/mailman/listinfo/nyckayaker> > > End of NYCKayaker Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1> *****************************************