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Merry go-arounds Tis summer, Marcus Demuth is underway on one of the season’s many circumnavigations. Te New York City–based paddler is attempt- ing the second-ever solo paddle around Iceland (2,333 km, 2.5 months; aroundiceland2008. com). Meanwhile, Patrick Stark is circum- navigating Georgian Bay to raise funds for the Georgian Bay Land Trust (1,000 km, 5 weeks;
GBLT.org). David McGratten and Karl Wil- son of Tunder Bay, Ontario, are circumnavi- gating Lake Superior (2,200 km; bigwater08. com). Greg Stamer is attempting a “fast and exciting…headland to headland” circumnaviga- tion of Newfoundland (2,500 km; gregstamer. com). Alon Ohad of Israel and Tim Starr of Canada are attempting the first ever go-around of Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago (1,700 km, 10 weeks;
ohad.info/svalbard). Also in the Svalbard, Birgit Ryningen and Anders Levoll of Norway are making a second attempt on Spitzbergen after getting iced-in in 2004 (1,500 km, 2 months;
lynvingen.org), and Ann Kristin Gjelsten and Tommy Frantzen of Norway are taking on Nordaustlandet, where a large glacier will require them to paddle 180 km nonstop (750 km, 30 days;
kajakkfrantzen.no).
Mega-symposium hits Northeast Tis year the Trade Association of Paddle Sports (TAPS) launches a Northeast version of its ever-popular West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium. Te North East Canoe and Kay- ak Symposium (NECKS) runs Sept. 5–7 in Clinton, New Jersey.
Gopaddle.org.
Plastic debris is out of land Te UN reports there are 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in every square mile of the sea, slowly poisoning or suffocating everything that moves, and the total mass of oceanborne plastic outweighs all of the world’s marine life by six to one. Tere should be a prize for the first company to make kayaks out of plastic harvested from the sea.
Algalita.org.
Guide sells ads on prosthesis Kayak guide Nate Smids, 23, is offering to sell ad space on his prosthetic leg. Smids said he usually wears shorts and his prosthesis is the first thing that 80 percent of people look at. Smids, who lost a leg after a snowboarding ac- cident, hopes to raise $15,000 to buy a single, amphibious prosthesis to replace the two he currently uses for walking and watersports.
Canadian waters threatened Paddlers are protesting a proposed, sweeping change to Canada’s Navigable Waters Protec- tion Act (NWPA) that would severely curtail navigation rights on rivers, allowing developers to alter certain water courses without an envi- ronmental assessment or public consultation. Visit
ispeakforcanadianrivers.ca.
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