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a palindrome you can paddle, invented by people who really needed to spear lunch.
means A narrow, lightweight boat propelled with a double-bladed paddle, traditionally enclosed around the paddler so it could be flipped upright after capsizing.
from From the Inuit word qajaq, the sealskin-and-driftwood hunting craft of the Arctic peoples. It reached English in the 1700s by way of Danish kajak, after European contact with Greenland — meaning the word, like the boat, traveled a long cold way before arriving.
- origin
- Inuit word meaning hunter's boat
- age
- Over 4,000 years old
- build
- Originally sealskin stretched over driftwood frames
- the roll
- Flipping upright underwater is a learnable skill
- waterproofing
- Hunters sewed jackets directly to the boat
for instance
yukon river — traditional inuit kayaking region spanning 1,900 miles through alaska and canada