Rolling demo in the pool at Kanumesse

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I agreed with Janek Pohle from Tahe Marine Kayaks/ Estonia to do a rolling demo in the pool at the Kanumesse. They gave me a beautiful Greelander T to use which I have heard of lots, but never paddled nor rolled before, due to my OZ buisiness last year.

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The Greenlander, designed by Johan Wirsén, is probably the most sold composite Greenland style kayak on the market, with beautiful lines, solidly built for a reasonable price. It comes in different layup versions, two different volumes and three different cockpit sizes.

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As I was never rolling this beauty and felt a bit “out of shape”, I was not fully content with my rolling performance, but at least got eventually my most famous tricks, standing up with the paddle on the head plus a decent headstand which eventually made it on the cover of the 3rd day’s “KANU today” :-))

I’m very much looking forward to have eventually my own Greenlander at home! It will be a full black semi-carbon version with an ocean cockpit. A beauty in my boat shed…

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KANU-Magazin was probably so much surrounded by three of my huge almost life-size cover pics at their booth that they simply forgot to write about me before in their copies one and two 🙂

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