![]() Music from Rive promoted band Snake And The Chain featuring musical artists Snake Allen, Kuryakin and Bif Naked doing their song “Heavy”…nice fit! The still images for this video was shot with PRE GoPro water cameras attached to his kayak such as the Nikon Action Touch 35mm film camera provided by J.S.Edmondson and unlike Ed’s GPS unit and radio was one of the few electronic devices that did not fail on the journey! Great POV video ACTION rolling with the MUSIC here with Ed taking on some fun breaking waves off Ocean Beach San Diego California. See what Ed says kept him going and check out the shots he took along the way on his unsupported solo trip from Monterey Ca to Maui Hawaii. This video interview took place in San Diego in 2000 where Ed recalls the challenges of the grueling mile sextant guided open sea journey. Man Solo Paddles CAL to HAWAII NO SUPPORT SHIPS or RADIO COMĮd Gillet Solo Paddles CALIFORNIA to HAWAII with NO CELL GPS and NO SUPPORT SHIPS – FULL SOLO! Along the way he endured a broken rudder, among other calamities, but at last reached Maui Hawaii on his 63 rd day at sea, four days after his food had run out.Įd ate his toothpaste to get energy for the final desperate middle of the night paddle to shore before being swept past Hawaii and into a vast void in the Pacific! Still, Gillet underestimated the abuse his body would take from the relentless, pounding, swells of the Pacific, and early into his voyage he was covered with salt water sores and found that he could find no comfortable position for sitting or sleeping. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant and always knew his position within a few miles. In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. ![]() Ed Gillet and his Kayak after arriving in Maui Hawaii from California.įew have heard of a long distance sea kayak adventurer based in San Diego named Ed Gillet who in 1987 at 36 years old was the first person known on planet Earth to SOLO paddle a kayak – NO SUPPORT SHIPS or RADIO/GPS (by circumstance) – from California to Hawaii – 2400 miles a record that though challenged still holds now in 2021…Fairly hard core and fully eXtreme!Įd has been a high school teacher in San Diego.ĮD finally finished a book on his ocean adventures for release on Amazon – link below:
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