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.
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.
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…
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 🙂
picture by Michael Neumann – www.kanumagazin.de