PYGMY BOATS INC

Arts Entertainment and Leisure > Amusement and Play Equipment

In 1970, Pygmy Designer, John Lockwood, took his first extended solo kayak trip--900 miles down the Yukon River. Fleeing the stuffy halls of Harvard, he loaded a collapsible Klepper on the Trans Canadian railroad and headed for Whitehorse in the Yukon. While studying computer science and anthropology in Cambridge, the nickname "Pygmy" attached itself to John due to his admiration of the peaceful Pygmy (or Mbuti) people of the African rain forest. They live as free-ranging hunter gatherers. So "Pygmy" lived mostly off of snared rabbits, and fished for pike and grayling, as he paddled his way toward Circle, Alaska. The mighty Yukon with her resident abundance of grizzly, black bear, badger, wolf, and eagles brought John the "Peace of Wild Things". A fall at a construction site destroyed his right hip in 1968 and put John on crutches for 8 years. This trip taught him that a kayak could still get him into deep wilderness, using upper body strength.

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