Kayak for a Cause Pod Kayaking Around Manhattan
NORWALK, Conn.-(Business Wire)-September 17, 2009 - Kayak for a Cause, one of the tri-state area’s most unique and challenging charity events, is paddling for the first time around the island of Manhattan. Co-founder Miles Spencer will join the team, along with nine other paddlers for the 30-mile attempt. The trip was planned by David Manzo and Peter Rollins as a way to draw attention to this worthwhile cause and recruit new paddlers for next year’s 10th anniversary of Kayak for a Cause.
“We thought it would be fun this year to try something daring to showcase our navigational abilities and allow our more experienced paddlers a trip that is more challenging than our yearly trip across the Long Island Sound,” said Miles Spencer, co-founder of Kayak for a Cause. “It normally takes approximately 40 hours for a kayaker to paddle around a land mass as large as Manhattan. However, with careful planning and analysis of tidal patterns, our pod of kayakers will be able to complete the trip in only nine hours.”
The group of kayakers will depart from Pier 40 at 7 a.m. and will travel 20 miles to arrive at Hell’s Gate at slack tide around 11 a.m. As arriving at slack tide is key to the success of their trip, extra time is built into their trip for the first 10 miles. After departing from Hell’s Gate, the group will paddle one mile to Hallet’s Cove in Queens, before traveling to Brooklyn Bridge, Mill Rock, Spyden Dyvil, Inwood Park, and the George Washington Bridge. The team is scheduled to return to Pier 40 at approximately 4 p.m.
In addition to Norwalk’s Miles Spencer, who can paddle backward quickly and has participated in every Kayak for a Cause thus far, Connecticut paddlers include: Killingworth’s Julia McCurdy who will do anything to get wet while paddling, but not in the East River; Milford’s Erica Skirvin (KFAC VIII-IX), who says kayaks don’t fly as well as they float; Greenwich’s Rudi Elert (KFAC VI-IX), who estimates that it will take 30,000 strokes to paddle around Manhattan; Norwalk’s Judith Bacal (KFAC IV-IX) who owns three kayaks, including a skin boat that she made; as well as Sue and Jerry Wylie; Daniel Brasel; Steve North; David Manzo; and Pete Rollins.
Kayak for a Cause, which arose out of a challenge between two friends, has grown into a massive fundraising initiative which attracts hundreds of paddlers for the voyage. This past July, Kayak for a Cause reversed the direction of the trip, where registered paddlers traveled north for the 12.4-mile trip, launching from Crab Meadow in Huntington, N.Y. and landing at Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk, Conn.
Registration for KFAC X is ready today at www.kfac.com.
About Kayak for a Cause
Connecticut residents Scott Carlin and Miles Spencer founded Kayak for a Cause in the summer of 2001, when they made their maiden voyage from Rowayton, Connecticut to Long Island on a lark. The resulting charity event and Long Island Sound crossing was created as a way to blend their love of kayaking with helping those in need.
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