Tasman thwarts kayak crossing
NZPA-AP Hobart An attempt at a Tasman Sea crossing by two New Zealand adventurers paddling a 6.2 metre kayak was abandoned only a few hours after they set off late on Saturday afternoon. Paul Caffyn, aged 40, and Ron Allnatt, aged 36, left Pirates Bay at Eaglehawk Neck in southern Tasmania to paddle 860 nautical miles to Milford Sound in the South Island of New Zealand in their specially designed two-man kayak without a support vessel and without a radio transmitter. They had been at sea
only a few hours when a gale force south-westerly wind blew up and a storm front set in. The two adventurers decided to turn around the kayak and run with the wind, but then were almost run over by a fishing boat which had failed to see them in the bad light and high seas. The boat picked up the men and took them back to Eaglehawk Neck. Caffyn said yesterday that he and Allnatt were undeterred by their experience, that it was not a do-or-die attempt, and that they would attempt the crossing again as soon as the weather settled.
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