“COOKSON’S STRAIT”
Lone Canoe Crossing (N.Z. Press Association) BLENHEIM, November 1. “For one day, Cook Strait was Cookson’s Strait,” 55year old Mr F. Cookson, of Wellington, said on Friday afternoon on his arrival at Picton after an unusual crossing of the strait. Mr Cookson paddled across in nine hours in a fibreglass kyak, to become one of the few, and almost certainly the oldest, canoeist to cross the usually inhospitable stretch of water.
What makes Mr Cookson’s feat all the more meritorious, however, is that he travelled alone.
He was conscious, he said, that he would face some criticism for not notifying search and rescue of his intentions. Mr Cookson said he had been planning the strait crossing for several years, but only in the last few days, after he had kept careful watch on the barometer and conditions generally, was he certain that the weather would be suitable. And it could not have been better, he said, so that there was really “nothing to it.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30587, 2 November 1964, Page 10
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