Tekið af heimasíðu Sportbúðarinnar. Klukkan hvað er atburðurinn???
Paul Caffyn er án efa einn merkasti núlifandi ræðari heims. Paul Caffyn verður gestur Sportbúðarinnar Krókhálsi 5 þriðjudagskvöldið 10. júlí næstkomandi.
Paul sem er á leið í Grænlandsleiðangur ásamt félaga sínum, Conrad Edwards, ætlar að stoppa í Sportbúðinni og sýna nokkrar myndir og segja frá leiðöngrum sínum sem flestir hverjir eru hreint ótrúlegir.
Árið 1980 réru Paul og Nigel Dennis fyrstir manna 2.200 mílur á 85 dögum hringinn um Bretlandseyjar. Árið 1981 lagði Paul upp í stærsta leiðangur sinn er hann réri hringinn um Ástralíu. Samtals 9.420 mílur á 360 dögum, takk. Þessi leiðangur hefur verið valinn þriðji merkasti kayakleiðangur sögunnar á eftir 2 leiðöngrum þvert yfir Atlantshafið árið 1928 og 1956. Sjá betur á eftirfarandi slóð http://www.paddlermagazine.com/issues/2003_4/article_221.shtml.
Við segjum nánar frá komu Paul hér á vefnum og vef Kayakklúbbsins - www.kayakklubburinn.is þegar nær dregur. Það verður opið hús í Sportbúðinni og allir velkomnir.
Kafli með Paul Caffyn er á nýjustu This is the Sea myndinni sem þú færð í Sportbúðinni en hér geta enskulesandi lesið sér meira til um afrek Paul Caffyn.
When not sea kayaking, Paul Caffyn lives on
the edge of the Tasman Sea on New Zealand's West Coast. He works as a
coal exploration and mining geologist, a job which takes him deep
underground in the local coal mines. Although Paul began canoeing at
the tender age of 9 on the Brisbane River, he only took up serious sea
kayaking in 1977. In the following 15 years he has notched up over
30,000 miles in his single Eskimo style kayaks. His Australian trip is
regarded as one of the great small boat voyages of recent history.
Paul's
first sea kayak expedition was around Fiordland with co-paddler Max
Reynolds. From Jacksons Bay, Paul carried on solo to complete the first
kayak circumnavigation of the South Island. This trip was the subject
of Paul's first book Obscured by Waves. In 1979 Paul kayaked 1700 miles
around the North Island, another first, and completed the trip with a
Cook Strait crossing. This trip was the subject of a second book
Cresting the Restless Waves. In August 1979, Paul teamed up with Max
Reynolds again to cross Foveaux Strait and complete a tough kayak
circumnavigation of Stewart Island. Dark Side of the Wave completed
Paul's New Zealand trilogy of his kayak travels around New Zealand.
In
1980 Paul teamed up with an English paddler, Nigel Dennis, to complete
the first kayak circumnavigation of Great Britain. This 2,200 mile trip
took 85 days.
In December 1981, Paul set out from Queenscliff
near Melbourne and spent the next 360 days achieving the first kayak
circumnavigation of Australia. This 9,420 mile paddle is acknowledged
as one of the most remarkable journeys ever undertaken by kayak. Paul
had to contend with a tropical cyclone which nearly swept him off a
small offshore islet in the Coral Sea, raging surf, tiger sharks which
frequently bumped into the kayak in the Gulf of Carpentaria,
crocodiles, sea snakes and three sections of sheer limestone cliffs. To
overcome the three 100+mile plus long sections of cliffs, Paul used
Nodoz tablets to stay awake and lomotil to keep his bowels dormant
during these overnight paddles. The longest stint along the awesome
Zuytdorp Cliffs in Western Australia, took 34 hours of continuous
paddling. After 10 years of trying to interest a publisher in a book
about the Australian trip, in April 1994 Paul finally self-published
his story as The Dreamtime Voyage.
In 1985 Paul completed a
4,400 mile 112 day paddle around the four main islands of Japan. With
co-paddlers, Paul has twice attempted to kayak across the Tasman Sea
from Tasmania to New Zealand but has been thwarted on both occasions by
the Tasmanian authorities and bad weather.
In August 1991,
Paul paddled into Inuvik, in the North-West Territories of Canada, to
complete the first solo kayak trip along the entire coastline of
Alaska. Commencing from Prince Rupert in British Columbia, this 4,700
mile trip took three northern summers to complete. Highlights of this
trip were: a herd of walrus swimming around the kayak, a large brown
bear ripping open Paul's tent while he was asleep, being charged by a
bull musk ox, and meeting the Eskimo villagers who are the descendents
of the Inuit people who originally evolved the skin kayaks of the
Arctic waters. Paul filmed the 1991 trip from Nome to Inuvik, not easy
when paddling solo, and Canterbury Television edited the tapes and some
Television News footage of Paul training on the West Coast, into a 30
minute documentary.
In September 1997 Paul, and Wellington
paddler Conrad Edwards, completed a 550 mile circumnavigation of New
Caledonia. 1998 - 690 mile trip along south-west coast of Greenland,
from Kangerslussuaq to Narsarsuaq with Conrad Edwards 1999 - 700 mile
paddle along the west coast of Greenland from Kangamiut to Upernarvik,
with Conrad Edwards. 2001 -2002: 610 mile trip from Kuala Lumpur,
Malaya, to and around the island of Phuket, in Thailand; with Conrad
Edwards.