As I write, all three episodes of the Canoe Boys radio programmes can be heard on-line. How long this remains the case is out of my control, and is tied up with BBC copyright issues. The links are alongside this entry.
The Canoe Boys -The Sequel
A classic of sea kayaking literature will be celebrated in a series of radio documentaries this summer. One of the paddlers, Simon Willis, outlines the plan. If you or any member of your family can remember the original Canoe Boys, or have a story relating to their trip, please get in touch. “Please don’t tell people we’re re-creating the original voyage”, I asked Cailean MacLeod as we planned this trip. “There’s no way I intend to paddle the west coast of Scotland in a canvas canoe and a string vest!” The Canoe Boys is the classic adventure story of the first epic Scottish sea journey by kayak, and I defy any modern sea kayaker to read it without clenched buttocks. The equipment they used seems so primitive I’d hesitate before taking it into a swimming pool. Yet in 1934 Alastair Dunnett and Seumas Adam paddled Scotland’s wild, west coast all the way from Glasgow to Skye. They were either exceptionally foolish or heroically brave; probably both. This summer two of us will paddle k
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