Of Kayaks and Kilts

[MacMullen]

I didn't have the privilege of attending, but at the Qajaq USA Greenland kayaking event held annually at Delmarva there was a kayak wedding. What does that have to do with kilts, you ask? The musician at the wedding was piper James Hartford, who attended the event in his kilt. There is also video of him from the general kayaking event playing his pipes.

Here are some links:

James playing the pipes at Delmarva

James playing at a kayak wedding

Check out the other links in the margin. There's a very artful link of Allison, a Greenland kayaker, rolling her kayak to music, a kayak dance, if you will.

I love it when my interests intersect!



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[Mr. MacDougall]

Whoa, that's not Greenland, is it? I always thought Greenland was the one that was icy, and Iceland was the one that was green....

[James MacMillan]

Whoa, that's not Greenland, is it? I always thought Greenland was the one that was icy, and Iceland was the one that was green....

Looks pretty green to me!!!

[Moosedog]

Ummm, it's a style of kayaking and this festival is held on the Delmarva peninsula (Delaware-Maryland-Virginia.)

Moosedog

[irishrob]

My friends who kayak, also call the covers of their "holes/ports/seats/whatever they are" kilts!

Rob

[MacMullen]

Yup, it was a symposium on Greenland style kayaking. Greenland style focuses on the techniques, kayaks and paddles from the roots of kayaking, borrowed from the Inuit people. It's a traditional style, which I know everyone here can appreciate at XMarks.

There are several traditional (Greenland style) kayakers who wear kilts. Just like with kilts and all of the historical accessories that go with it, Greenland style kayakers tend to get into the historical aspects and accessories of the kayak as well as the techniques.

BTW, at the end of the piping video, there's a little bit of a discussion concerning the tune and how James got into piping. I don't know him personally, only from QajaqUSA, but if I get a chance I'll point him in this direction.

[Randy]

Things I wish I knew about sooner. My lovely wife secretly wants a kayak.

[MacMullen]

My friends who kayak, also call the covers of their "holes/ports/seats/whatever they are" kilts!

Rob

Sprayskirts. Although, one brand of sprayskirt is a Kayak Kilt. Kilt is certainly more rugged sounding than sprayskirt. Or, you could use the traditional word for the Inuit sprayskirt, akuilisaq.

Buy your wife a kayak and you can go around telling people that you fulfilled your wife's secret desire.

[James MacMillan]

Things I wish I knew about sooner. My lovely wife secretly wants a kayak.

If she "secretly wants a kayak." - How did you find out? Does she talk in her sleep, using those strange kayak terms?