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Press Release
Sea Quest Kids™ Go Paddle Crazy At Cape Hatteras Splash
For Immediate Release
Event: Cape Hatteras Splash: Canoe and Kayak Extravaganza
Presented by: GET:OUTDOORS and North Carolina Paddle Trails Association, and The Nature Conservancy
Where: The beautiful Village Of Frisco on the famed Outer Banks
When: April 30 to May 2, 2004 (1st Annual)
Why: The Splash will go beyond the usual fare offered by the typical kayak symposium, highlighting local culture and cuisine, natural history, conservation, races, kite boarding exhibitions, music, dance, and Sea Quest Kids™ boat building.
PHOTOS AFTER THE STORY
Village Of Frisco, The Outer Banks, NC: May 2, 2004 - The excitement generated by Sea Quest Kids™ was astonishing to even seasoned veterans, and the worlds leading experts on canoeing and kayaking. Said Greg Sweval, Director of The Splash, "Sea Quest Kids™ are great! You are locked into this event. Forget about being anywhere else when the Cape Hatteras Splash is taking place!"
Thanks to sponsors GET:OUTDOORS and The Home Depot about 15 kids got to be a part of Sea Quest Kids™ boat building. Two Sea Quest 100 ten-foot scow-skiffs were built and finish painted in one day. Day number two saw boater and water safety training and some extremely creative problem solving making cleats, rudder systems, and sails. Our Hatteras crew experimented by sailing with no lea boards and discovered that digging in the lee chine helped to compensate for the lack of a lee board. Sunday saw the construction of a very creative double lee boards connected by a transverse bar athwartships (across the boat side to side). Fifteen-year-old Jeff Kennedy was the chief engineer on sail cutting and building lee boards.
The smash hit of the weekend for Sea Quest 100 propulsion was the 4hp - 4stroke Mercury Outboard from corporate sponsor Mercury Marine. With the under the hood gas tank and the easy start and reliability the kids just did not want to come off the water. Motoring around, pulling their friends on the boogie board, exploring, and experiencing the freedom and adventure of being on the water, they just could not get enough! Everyone wanted to go out and get a Merc. The kids were all sad to learn that the closest Merc service and dealer is more than an hour away. Sea Quest Kids™ called their friends at Mercury to let them know!
Sunday saw the Sea Quest Kids™ 1st Annual Splash Great Paddle Race. Two boats launched for the race while the Science of Philadelphia was held in reserve. Thanks to the fantastic paint work of seven year old Alan Hamblet of Wake Forest, we had plenty of finish painted paddles to go around. Noted boat builder, owner of event sponsor GET:OUTDOORS and founder of Cape Hatteras Splash, Andy Zimmerman was on hand to help start the first ever Great Paddle Race for The Splash. Zimmerman came by periodically throughout the weekend and always commented saying, "I can't believe how much fun these kids are having! This (Sea Quest Kids™) is such a great thing!"
Winners of the 1st Annual Splash Great Paddle Race were Jeff and Wyatt Kennedy and Donald McMillan. They employed an ingenious strategy of having Wyatt man the tiller while Jeff and Donald paddled. Giving up one paddler to man the tiller, but having directional stability to keep their course gave them the winning edge in their boat named "Slow Leak". Our other team of Gerrad Otto, Eugene Clinton, and Gary Olson in the Sea Quest 100 Copy Kat put up a valiant effort, but could not overcome the strategy of Team Slow Leak.
All of the instructors of the Splash were stopping by periodically to see the excitement of the Sea Quest Kids™ boat building. Some even commented that they wished their lecture tents were oriented so that they could watch the kids building, and creating, and designing, and testing. Everyone on the water was commenting about how much fun it was to watch the Sea Quest Kids™ paddling, and sailing, and motoring around!
One of the great reactions of the weekend to Sea Quest Kids™ was seen in world famous Hall of Fame multihull pioneer and designer-builder Jim Brown. When he walked up to the boat building area and saw a recut Sailboard sail rigged on Slow Leak with rudder system built on site, he marveled, rocked backwards, stepped back and said, "WOW!!!" as his gaze traveled to the tip of the cut down sail. Brown further went on to say, "This is unbelievable! This is so fantastic! Marvelous! These guys are having so much fun aren't they?! Everyone on site could not agree more.
For more information about the annual Cape Hatteras Splash and Get: Outdoors go to www.getoutdoors.us or call 1-800-450-6819. For more information about starting a Sea Quest Kids™ little league of boating team in your area call 302-266-6655, or E-mail: sgronka@cs.com, or go to www.advanceaf.org.
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Press Release
Sea Quest Kids™ Go Paddle Crazy At Cape Hatteras Splash
For Immediate Release
Event: Cape Hatteras Splash: Canoe and Kayak Extravaganza
Presented by: GET:OUTDOORS and North Carolina Paddle Trails Association, and The Nature Conservancy
Where: The beautiful Village Of Frisco on the famed Outer Banks
When: April 30 to May 2, 2004 (1st Annual)
Why: The Splash will go beyond the usual fare offered by the typical kayak symposium, highlighting local culture and cuisine, natural history, conservation, races, kite boarding exhibitions, music, dance, and Sea Quest Kids™ boat building.
PHOTOS AFTER THE STORY
Village Of Frisco, The Outer Banks, NC: May 2, 2004 - The excitement generated by Sea Quest Kids™ was astonishing to even seasoned veterans, and the worlds leading experts on canoeing and kayaking. Said Greg Sweval, Director of The Splash, "Sea Quest Kids™ are great! You are locked into this event. Forget about being anywhere else when the Cape Hatteras Splash is taking place!"
Thanks to sponsors GET:OUTDOORS and The Home Depot about 15 kids got to be a part of Sea Quest Kids™ boat building. Two Sea Quest 100 ten-foot scow-skiffs were built and finish painted in one day. Day number two saw boater and water safety training and some extremely creative problem solving making cleats, rudder systems, and sails. Our Hatteras crew experimented by sailing with no lea boards and discovered that digging in the lee chine helped to compensate for the lack of a lee board. Sunday saw the construction of a very creative double lee boards connected by a transverse bar athwartships (across the boat side to side). Fifteen-year-old Jeff Kennedy was the chief engineer on sail cutting and building lee boards.
The smash hit of the weekend for Sea Quest 100 propulsion was the 4hp - 4stroke Mercury Outboard from corporate sponsor Mercury Marine. With the under the hood gas tank and the easy start and reliability the kids just did not want to come off the water. Motoring around, pulling their friends on the boogie board, exploring, and experiencing the freedom and adventure of being on the water, they just could not get enough! Everyone wanted to go out and get a Merc. The kids were all sad to learn that the closest Merc service and dealer is more than an hour away. Sea Quest Kids™ called their friends at Mercury to let them know!
Sunday saw the Sea Quest Kids™ 1st Annual Splash Great Paddle Race. Two boats launched for the race while the Science of Philadelphia was held in reserve. Thanks to the fantastic paint work of seven year old Alan Hamblet of Wake Forest, we had plenty of finish painted paddles to go around. Noted boat builder, owner of event sponsor GET:OUTDOORS and founder of Cape Hatteras Splash, Andy Zimmerman was on hand to help start the first ever Great Paddle Race for The Splash. Zimmerman came by periodically throughout the weekend and always commented saying, "I can't believe how much fun these kids are having! This (Sea Quest Kids™) is such a great thing!"
Winners of the 1st Annual Splash Great Paddle Race were Jeff and Wyatt Kennedy and Donald McMillan. They employed an ingenious strategy of having Wyatt man the tiller while Jeff and Donald paddled. Giving up one paddler to man the tiller, but having directional stability to keep their course gave them the winning edge in their boat named "Slow Leak". Our other team of Gerrad Otto, Eugene Clinton, and Gary Olson in the Sea Quest 100 Copy Kat put up a valiant effort, but could not overcome the strategy of Team Slow Leak.
All of the instructors of the Splash were stopping by periodically to see the excitement of the Sea Quest Kids™ boat building. Some even commented that they wished their lecture tents were oriented so that they could watch the kids building, and creating, and designing, and testing. Everyone on the water was commenting about how much fun it was to watch the Sea Quest Kids™ paddling, and sailing, and motoring around!
One of the great reactions of the weekend to Sea Quest Kids™ was seen in world famous Hall of Fame multihull pioneer and designer-builder Jim Brown. When he walked up to the boat building area and saw a recut Sailboard sail rigged on Slow Leak with rudder system built on site, he marveled, rocked backwards, stepped back and said, "WOW!!!" as his gaze traveled to the tip of the cut down sail. Brown further went on to say, "This is unbelievable! This is so fantastic! Marvelous! These guys are having so much fun aren't they?! Everyone on site could not agree more.
For more information about the annual Cape Hatteras Splash and Get: Outdoors go to www.getoutdoors.us or call 1-800-450-6819. For more information about starting a Sea Quest Kids™ little league of boating team in your area call 302-266-6655, or E-mail: sgronka@cs.com, or go to www.advanceaf.org.
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