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From left to right, Nick Schade, Clark Eid, Kurt Zimmermann.
Photo taken by: Mr. Schade (Nick's dad....)

Picture at the Wooden Boat Show (not part of original article).

Guillemot Kayaks

Nick Schade displayed a full range of his creatively decorated stripper designs, featuring contrasting wood inlays on sleek high performance hulls. His inventory of eight designs ranged from the 11'x28" little Auk to the 25 1/2'x21" Guillemot Fast Double. Nick builds to order, sells buiding plans, and kits of his designs are available through Newfound Woodwords.

Guillemot Kayaks, 824 Thompson St., Glastonbury, CT 06033, (860) 659-8847, http://www.KayakPlans.com/a

Adjacent to Nick's display was a special design Nick had done, a 25' long double, the Double Helix, built by Clark Eid. Clark decorated his boat with a rose vine pattern that wound around it in the double helix pattern of a DNA strand. The boat, paddled by Clark and his partner Kurt Zimmermann, is to be entered in to The Great Mississippi River Riace for Restt Syndrome in May of 2001. Clark's daughter, Amanda, is afflicted with this devastating disease which affects thousands of little girls and young women, and so Clark is not only taking part in this fund raising effort for bio-medical research in this disease, but is also working on organizing the event. That'll be a 2,348 mile non-stop ultra marathon!

The Great Mississippi River Race for Rett Syndrome, donations c/o Rett Syndrome Research Foundation, 4600 Devitt Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45246, http://www.dreamkeeper.org