When I began writing this, there was a boat standing bolt-upright on its bow, held in place by a rope wrapped around its stern and pinched in a window sash on one of my upstairs bedrooms. The boat is an 18′ kayak that belongs to my friend Freya Hoffmeister, from Husum, Germany. She’s currently paddling it around North America, not in the here-and-there sense of “around,” but as in circumnavigating the continent, some 30,000 miles of paddling. To fix a leak at the grab-loop hole, we set the kayak on end up against my house to get epoxy to settle in the bow.
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Great write up. I have recently read Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent, and I am totally inspired by Freya. She is a amazing person.