Kayaks are making a splash at seaside

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: August 3, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

NORTH HAMPTON -- The red and yellow and blue and purple vessels, low to the water and human-powered, head out to sea near Plaice Cove.

They cruise only as far as an outcropping of rocks that are being bashed by waves, and there they begin to play. One rider paddles feverishly and his small boat gets up and rides the foaming water of a soon-spent wave for several yards. Another wave crashes over the yellow boat, dumping it and rider into the ocean.

Eventually, the frolicing flotilla of kayaks breaks up.

A couple of the riders paddle back to shore and lunch. Others head north along the rocks and ...

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