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On a kayak, the spraydeck is secured to a rim surrounding the cockpit with a line or elastic string called a rand. [1] The line or string often runs inside the hem along the edge of the spraydeck. Alternatively elastic cord is attached directly to the edge of the spraydeck, and is tightened around the rim of the kayak's cockpit or stretched ...
The ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships are an international event in canoe freestyle organized by the International Canoe Federation.The ICF World Championships have taken place since 2007 although there were some "unofficial" events since at least 1995.
Kayak paddlers in Pakistan snow training at Hanna Lake. A kayak is a small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle. The word kayak originates from the Inuktitut word qajaq (IPA:). In British English, the kayak is also considered to be a kind of canoe.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1948 London Gert Fredriksson (SWE) Lars Glassér (SWE) Poul Agger (DEN) 1950 Copenhagen Johan Kobberup (DEN) Lennart Klingström (SWE) Andreas Lind (DEN)
Championships Gold Silver Bronze 1949 Geneva: Werner Zimmermann Jean Engler Eduard Kunz Switzerland Hans Frühwirth Rudolf Pillwein Josef Danek Austria Bohuslav Fiala
The Recreational Craft Directive, Directive 2013/53/EU, originally Directive 94/25/EC on recreational craft [1] amended by Directive 2003/44/EC, is a European Union directive which sets out minimum technical, safety and environmental standards for boats, personal watercraft, marine engines and components in Europe.
The baidarka or Aleutian kayak (Aleut: iqyax) is a watercraft consisting of soft skin (artificial or natural) over a flexible space frame. Without primarily vertical flex, it is not an iqyax . Its initial design was created by the Aleut people (Unangan/Unangas), the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands .
The simplest form of all ancestral Austronesian boats had five parts. The bottom part consists of single piece of hollowed-out log. At the sides were two planks, and two horseshoe-shaped wood pieces formed the prow and stern. These were "sewn" together with dowels and lashings. They had no central rudders but were instead steered using an oar ...