Home from the first stage of our journey, we started our journal “paddlersslipstream.” With some stories and pictures we hope to entice family and friends to join us, and maybe provide a helpful tip or two for other paddlers.
The plan is to kayak the Connecticut River from Canada to the Long Island Sound, over the course of a dozen or so stages, while including excursions to points of interest along the way.
Jim: Residence: A small farming town along the MA-NH border
Interests: Kayaking, fishing, hiking, and of course coffee
Kayak: Malibu X-Factor 14′
“Well, I thought I was an experienced paddler…”
Chuck: Residing in Brooklyn, after looking into kayaks for a few weeks I bought a Wilderness Systems Tarpon-120.
I was not an experienced paddler, so, I did not participate in the reference above—his attempt to run a “rapids” named “Beecher Falls.”
A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid is moving at velocities comparable to the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving.
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