Freya-Hoffmeister

Freya Hoffmeister: Race around Australia is done!!!

Congratulations Freya!!!! Freya Hoffmeister has done it: Today (15th of december 2009) the German sea kajaker finished her race around Australia. 14000 kilometers of paddling around the fifth continent. At noon she landed at Queenscliff close to Melbourne where  she has started on the 18th of January. In one of her first interviews she said: " I am happy. And I am tired. I am happy not to be paddling any more, but it was worth the risk."

Freya is supported by Aquapac-Aquman Germany with waterproof cases for the safety of all her electronic equipment for years now.

If you wanna have a look on a video of her arrival, please  click

German seakayaker Freya Hoffmeisters race around Australia in a year is finished nearly. On tuesday 15th she will land at  Queenscliff at the Victorian Seakayak-Clubs close to Melbourne where she started here race around the fifth continent on january 18th 2009. 332 days she has been on her way, 245 days of paddling. And she will be the first woman who ever made this circumnavigation. And - after Paul Caffyn New Zealand (361days/257 paddling days) - the second human who has ever done it. Freya is supported by Aquapac Germany with waterproof cases for the safety of all her electronic equipment for years now.

14000 kilometers of paddling are in the arms of Freya, a former "Miss Germany": attacked by a shark or close to the "salties";  being on sea for eight days without landing; paddling along cliffs for days withou any chance to land or  surrounding Cape Leeuwin at the west coast of Australia where waves of eight meters clashed against the rocks. Unbelievable what she has done. She has reached borders.

Nearly every australian knows her name right now. And her name is on the most important landmarks to remember who passed it. And there are not to many names on the plates!

The last days there were blowing heavy tailwinds.  She paddled around 80 kilometers a day.  For her arrival there is arranged a big party already. The media is waiting for her. And also a huge crowd of Australians who want to see the woman who surrounded their continent.

That`s what she wrote in her blog on saturday 12th of december:

"It looks like I'm having three days of padling left. My arrival day at Caffyn's Cove in Queenscliff, Melbourne will probably be Tuesday, 15th, before slack tide around noon. Everybody is very much welcome to join me to paddle to Caffyn's Cove the last few km from Point Lonsdale.

The VSKC is so kind to organize plenty of media on the spot. They organize a Q&A talk with the final Melbourne party on Wednesday, 15th.

Please check on the VSKC website for details. I'll be giving another talk in Sydney on Saturday, 19th.

Organized by Mark Sundin, Expedition Kayaks. Details on his website.

I'll be flying home on Sunday, 20th, 4.35pm from Sydney via Singapore. I'll arrive in Germany, Hamburg airport on Monday, 21st, 10.30 from London, BA 0964"

Posted under Australia, Stage 15: Victor Harbour - Queenscliff 

Which Aquapac cases are on board of Freya Hoffmeisters kayak:

All of the electronical equipment of Freya Hoffmeister like VHF,  GPS, Cellphone, camera or maps are packed in the waterproof cases of Aquapac Germany. The cases made its job very well, as Freya Hoffmeister wrote in a mail. During her trip we send her some new ones, while some get damaged during very rough landings. Here a message of Freya to pur company:

"Hallo Petra,

Aquapacs allover my luggage, vielen Dank! Und jeder bewundert, (oder bedauert?) die vielen electronics, die ich so mitführen muss, aber sie werden täglich ziemlich hard benutzt! Der large whanganui case ist meine Kartentasche, die täglich auf meinem Deck ist. Die leckt inzwischen irgendwie, ich kann nicht herausfinden, wo und wie. Ich könnte eine oder zwei neue gebrauchen! Und die large VHF classic hält mein Motorola-Satelliten Telefon, das wird auch ordentlich täglich strapaziert und hat schon mehrere reparierte Lecks. Ein oder zwei neue wäre fein!

Vielen Dank!!!

Freya

If you wanna have a look what kind of Aquapacs Freya got on board and used for which reasons, please have a Look.

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One week left and german kajaker Freya Hoffmeister finished her race around Australia. She will be the first woman who ever surrounded the fifth continent in a kajak and the second human being ever.  She ist on her final stage right now, on the 10th of december (day 326) she reached Brown Bay, just a week away from where she startet on the 18th of january 2009: Queenscliff close to Melbourne. The Australians nearly could not believe what is happening right now. The blog of freya who is supported by Aquapac Germany with dust- und waterproof cases for years, is full of comments.

Good luck on the last miles

The whole Aquapac-Team

Who wants to know what is going on: www.qajaqunderground.com

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Freya Hoffmeister is a german sea-kajaker (www.qajaqunderground.com) who made some really astonishing trips the last few years. She paddled around Iceland in June and July 2007: 1620 km in 33 days, 25 days on sea. An average of 65 km a day. That’s a new record. Three months later the extrem-kajakerin was on the other side of the world. In 47 stages and 2386 km she finished: She was the first women ever surrounding New Zealand. The third paddler how ever made this trip and only the fifth who tried it.

But not enough: Right now (november 2009) she is on her way to surround Australia. Christmas she started in Melbourne, one year later she will land in Melbourne again. If she makes it she will be the first woman who ever done this trip. And the second human being who ever done it. If you want to know how it is going  just have a look on her page. She updates it whenever it is possible. Good luck!! Aquapac is sponsoring her different trips with different cases for gps, phone, vhf-radio or waterproof cases for her personal belongings. Her comment: “It works fine. No problems!!”

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