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Systems
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– Expeditions
and Adventure Race Teams
Latest news:
Nathalie and Alain Antognelli – phototeam: “Greenland : Eye Witness Report - Listening to the people of Greenland” In September 2009, Nathalie
and Alain completed an 1100 kilometre kayak expedition around the coast of
Greenland between the towns of d’Upernavik at 72°47’ north, and Ilulisat in the
bay of Disko, at 69°13’ north.
Their aim was to photograph the daily life of the Inuit people, and to
report on their views and opinions about their environment, their lives and
their future. They are currently
working on the production of a book entitled “Temoignages” (“Eye Witness
Report”). Click here to go their
website and view stunning photographs of Greenland and her people. The team used our Pacific Action 1.5sqm
– PA_MI15 sail systems.
Link: www.phototeam-nature.com
Peter and Nathalie Schödl (Sea2Summit) paddle a 563 km
sea kayak expedition odyssey to explore the 1000 islands of the Croatian Sea
- We sponsored their Pacific
Action PA_SI10 sail systems. –
July 2009. Check out their amazing
adventure and stunning photos: http://www.sea2summit.at/sea2summit_news.htm#SeakajakCroatia
Steve Gurney (www.gurneygears.com) –
top New Zealand
multi-sport athlete and adventurer recently re-created the landmark 1889
expedition of George Park in the South Island of New Zealand, with portage of
kayaks across Harpers Pass and a 100 km paddle across Pegasus Bay. Pacific Action sponsored this expedition,
with our 1.5sqm sail system – model PA_MI15. (During
trials, Steve set the boat speed record for a Pacific Action sail – 20 kph on
Lake Hawea in a gail with our 1sqm sail system (emailed 7/1/08)).
Click here to see a video of Steve with our 1.5sqm sail on Lake Sumner
Kim Petherick & Lachie Harvey are heading out on another great adventure – see below for their Inside Passage expedition in 2006. In 2008 they are paddling around Cape Horn – and Pacific Action are providing sponsorship with our 1sqm model PA_SI10 sail systems – watch their website for progress reports: http://www.southozadventurers.com/
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It official – Pacific Action sails have been to the
North Pole! - Franz-Joseph-Land
Expedition 2007 arrives back safely after 1,500 km of hauling and kayaking from the
North Pole. Congratulations to Thomas Ulrich & Børge Ousland for their outstanding
achievement. We sponsored Thomas
and Børge with 1sqm Pacific
Action sails which they used for the open water kayaking and even to
assist with the sledging across the ice!
See: http://www.thepole.ch/en/home_en.html
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images
by Thomas Ulrich, image of Thomas and the polar bears by Børge
Ousland
Testimonial from Thomas Ulrich (14/12/07): During our expedition from the North Pole to the Franz Joseph Land archipelago, Børge Ousland and I followed the historic tracks of Fridtjof Nansen Hjalmar Johansen some 100 years ago. On our 1500 kilometre-trip, we used kayaks as sleds because we had to cross several stretches of open water around and between the islands. We brought along Sails that we could mount on our kayaks. These sails proved very helpful. They saved us a lot of energy without adding too much weight. But they also allowed us to cross long stretches of open water much safer than without sails. e.g. one of the key sections was the crossing from Hooker Island to Northbrook Island, where we had to cross 34 km of open sea. We waited several days for favourable winds and then made the crossing in 8 hours of sailing and paddling. Without sails, this crossing would have been so much more strenuous and extremely risky, too! This is even more true, when we consider, that a storm hit the area the day after that crossing. It would have been really bad, to be on the ocean still. Normally, we joined our kayaks to a catamaran when we crossed open water. This made us less vulnerable for possible Walrus attacks. The sails worked great in that configuration as well. Sometimes, we even used the sails on the ice. When we had a stiff wind from the back, the sails helped us to pull the sleds more easily. Big thanks to Pacific Action Sails for their support. Their sails worked great on our expedition! Thomas Ulrich
Ed. The kayaks were sponsored by Prijon and we
sponsored the Pacific Action sail systems – model PA_SI10 (1sqm) sails, – customized in white
2007 Ord - Negri River System Crocodile Survey: On Top Down Under sponsored the renowned outdoor
photographer Andrew Gregory and seasoned
trans-Australian trekker and author Kieran
Kelly with Pacific
Action sails for their Ord and Negri River - Lake Argyle expedition in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
– click
here to see the photos:
Congratulations to these guys for an safe expedition in
crocodile-infested waters! Click
here to go to Andrew’s
website. Reported
in “The Manly Daily” on June 30th, they said “With 50km still to go to the
dam wall, we got a brilliant day of wind, and were able to put up the sails to
finish the journey”.
images by Andrew Gregory - Ed. These
were PA_MI15 (1.5sqm) sails fitted to Necky Looksha V kayaks.
Everglades Challenge 2007: In March 2007 Dan
Lockwood
(SavannahDan) and David Wicks (PaddleMaker) competed in
the Everglades Challenge
in a Pygmy Kayak – The
Osprey Triple. They travelled from Tampa Bay to Key Largo via the wilderness
waterway in 6 days 6 hours and 55 minutes and used two of our 1sqm PA_SI10 sail
systems. Click here to read their
commentary on the performance of our sails – downwind – across wind and up
wind! http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/07/gatherings/ec/index.htm
Dawn
Stewart – Water Tribe Ultimate Florida Challenge, a 1200 mile, unsupported,
expedition adventure race, March 4 -
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Congratulations
to Kim Petherick and Lachie
Harvey for completing their
expedition from
Click here to see their photo album with our sails in
ACTION!
For more photos and stories of this and other exciting
paddling adventures by these Aussies, visit their website: southozadventurers.com.
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Adventure Race Teams:
Team AccelerateUK wins Gaelforce 12 race in
Wales with Pacific Action sails! – go team! - for details of our sponsored adventure
racing teams scroll down.
Team AccelerateUK use Pacific Action model PA_MI15
sails (1.5sqm) - Photos courtesy
of Gill Watson
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Speleo Team DEC (
2007 Summary
Team
Speleo Salomon (Agnieszka Zych, Kasia Zając, Artur Kurek, Piotr Kosmala, Remik
Nowak, Piotr Hercog, Kuba Zwoliński and Darek Bonarski)
- Bergson Winter Challenge, Poland - 1st place
- Adventure Racing World Championship, Scotland - 10th
place
- Wertepy, Poland - 1st place
- Rajd Gringo, Poland - 1st place
- KI Challenge, Croatia - 1st place
- The North Face Adventure Trophy, Poland - 2nd place
- Nawigator Race, Poland - 1st place
- Adidas Natventure Trophy, Germany - 4 miejsce
- Natventure Trophy, Austria - 1st place
- Ekstremalny Rajd Orla, Poland - 3rd place
- Wyzwanie, Poland - 1st place
- Eksploris Race, Poland - 2nd place
- Extreme Adventure Hidalgo, Mexico - 8th place
- Carpathian Adventure, Romania
- IGWA, Guadelupe – 8th place
- cykl Salomon Adventure Cup Poland – 1st place
- cykl ZHP Nonstop Adventure, Poland – 1st place
- Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge, United Arab Emirates - 13th
place
“ click here to visit Speleo Team DEC
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Team Nemo
Contact: Elizabeth Moore Competition:
Primal Quest 2006
Website: team Nemo |
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Team Sole Contact: Karen Lundgren Competition:
Primal Quest 2006 Website: team Sole |
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Team AccelerateUK Contact: Gill Watson Competition:
British Adventure Racing Series Website: Team Accelerateuk |
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Team Golite Contact: Marcel Hagener Competition:
U.S.A. , Brazil Website: Team
Golite |
Previously Sponsored Teams:
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Team Seagate.com - winners of the Subaru Primal Quest 2004 Adventure Race - San Juan Islds, WA, USA, Sept 19th - 28th.
Congratulations to Team Gerber_Legendary_Blades: - for finishing 19th in the Subaru Primal Quest 2004 - well done! Team members: Avril Copeland (captain), Scott Cole, Ben Nachtrieb, Joe Moerschbaecher
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Subaru
Primal Quest 2003 race start - team members swim to join the
rest of the Cobra Quad ® kayak crews |
Pacific Action sail system - model PA_LI22 sponsorship for Florida
USA - Team
Are We There Yet.
...... Pacific Action TM
sail rigs blitzed kayak section of 4 Winds USA Supreme adventure race..
Richard Raschdorf - team NYARA reports...
"I borrowed the 2 kayak sails from Chris
Ballou Team 911, they were a factor in us placing 1st in the
4 person category (Team NYARA) of the 4 Winds USA Supreme race in Utah (Aug
17-24) 350+ mile race. We were on a lake with 3 to 4 foot swells with
15-20 knot winds. We passed other teams as if they were standing still,
it was a great feeling. We used them on every kayak leg in the race, and
we were sailing almost straight into the wind, I did some slight
modifications."
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On Top Down
Under sponsors the
following U.S. Adventure Race teams with Pacific Action TM
sail systems. Team NYC911 Team Eco_Subaru Team NYARA |
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NZ Pat # 511552
US Pat. # 6,655,314
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