By Vladimir Brezina
Why did so many other kayaks overtake us in the 2014 Everglades Challenge? Wind power!
Next time, we’ll have sails on our kayaks too!
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Wind.
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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Wind Against Current 
kayak sails, who knew. and stabilizers. looks like fun!
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Yes!
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That’s my idea of being on the water! I like being powered by a bedsheet on a stick.
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A little more sophisticated than that, but yes!
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Will you really? Not sure I believe you …
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Weeeeeeeelllllllllllllll…. Vlad and I are planning the BlackBeard challenge in 2016. We haven’t yet decided whether we’ll do it with sails, but it’s definitely under consideration. The races are open to all small human-powered boats… the only rules are a) no motors and b) you have to be able to push the boat off the beach at the starting launch. So sails are permitted…
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Sounds fun, look forward to finding out what you decide to do.
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Those are impressive. My son made a sail for his kayak this summer. It definitely made the paddle go quicker.
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Yes, assuming the wind is heading in the right direction….
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I recall sailing sometime ago, in a flotila between Virgin Gordo and Anegada in the BVI’s, and as the Captian, our friend, started the auxuliary (along With the trimmed sails) I asked “Isn’t that cheating?” He said…”maybe! But thats the way you get one of the few mooring balls!” Competition is competition.
M :-)
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I think motorized is going, as they say, a step too far…
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What?? Kayak with sails?!
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Yep! There are quite a few of them in the Challenge…
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I actually have a fairly sophisticated sail rig for my kayak—see here, for instance. And smaller sails (up to 1 meter square) that mount on the bow of the kayak are made by a number of companies and are fairly common.
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Yes, very impressive! My level of kayaking is rather pre-beginner in comparison!
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I have never seen kayaks with a sail! And even main and fore sail
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I know! Quite sophisticated, right?
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Like a big ship!
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It feels like it sometimes :-)
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I’ve never seen kayaks with sails either, at least not around Manhattan, which is the only place I’ve ever seen kayaks. I don’t get around very much.
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Well, if Vlad and I get sails for next summer, I guess we’ll be the first…..
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I’ve actually done quite a bit of kayak sailing in the Hudson and Long Island Sound (see here and here), and I’ve seen (albeit rarely) other kayak sailors there…
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Wonderful photos showcasing the challenge word – wind.
Great colors !!!!
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Thanks, Isadora!
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