ADVENTURES IN A PUFFIN.
During a bicycling journey in 2005 from Vancouver to the Arctic Circle I spent quite some time cycling beside the Yukon River and was very envious of kayakers who paddled leisurely along with the current while I battled strong headwinds, freezing rain and sleet. We camped together

Bill Longyard has made some unusual trips with his Puffin, like his adventure on the mud flats at the mouth of the Thames River that is included in this collection of Puffin stories. Here is another:

    In the summer of 2009 I set out to do something I had wanted to do for twenty years-  paddle from Helsingborg, Sweden to Helsingør, Denmark across the Öresund, a stretch of water only two miles wide at this neck between the two countries, but at times made wickedly turbulent by opposing tides, water currents, and sub-Arctic winds.

Submitted to Paddling.net  July 14, 2010
  I moved to Austin a couple of months ago and had to leave my 12 ft Perception hard shell behind due to space. I looked over my options for a smaller yak and could not find anything that would replace the feeling the 12 footer gave me. Some friends told me to look into a folding