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Why A Kayaking Website?
I have created Yackman.com as a way to share my passion for sea kayaking and wilderness, and to tell you about some of the places I have visited. I came to sea kayaking fairly late in life, after early years as a power boater and twenty years as a Great Lakes sailor.
In 1994, my wife Lisa and I were looking for a different kind of vacation experience, when I stumbled on an advertisement for a three day, wilderness kayaking trip off the coast of Maine near Bar Harbor. Neither one of us had been in a kayak before but we gave it a try and loved it. We’ve been kayaking now for another twenty years. I don’t plan to stop until I’m no longer able to paddle!
Indian River Lagoon Spoil Island
The Adirondack Park
The Adirondack Park lies in northern New York State. It is composed of six million (that's 6,000,000) acres of public and privately owned land, regulated by the Adirondack Park Authority. It is among the biggest parks in the nation. You will find nothing else like it in our country.
See Adirondack Park in Wikipedia for more information.
Huletts Landing
Huletts Landing is a hamlet in the town of Dresden in northern Washington County, New York, United States.[1] A lakeside community on the eastern shore of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains, Huletts Landing is located entirely within the Adirondack Park. There is only one roadway access to the hamlet, County Route 6 and its suffixed routes, which head north-south. Huletts Landing is geographically located at 43°38′21″N 73°30′25″W and has approximately two centuries of written history.
The Four Person Boat Carry
It is our practice to put four people on a loaded boat to carry it out of the water, especially in conditions such as this. This is not because of weight, though that is a consideration. There are the macho few who would and could do a two person carry. The issue is that in rocky, slippery conditions, four on a boat protects haulers from injury should one person slip and go down. One carrier is placed at the bow and one at the stern, with two others on each side of the cockpit. Bow and stern paddlers lift with a hand under the bow or stern of the boat, not the lift toggles. Some folks balk at this arrangement, but it has saved my hide more than once (Thank you Scott Keller).
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