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Boy ‘youngest’ in kayak crossing
Author: KayakMan
from BBC News – Saturday, 23 May 2009 UK
A teenage boy from Somerset is believed to have become the youngest person to cross the English Channel in a kayak.
Christian Hosie, 13, and his 19-year-old brother Wesley from Taunton took on the challenge to raise money for the charity Children with Leukemia.
The brothers set off from Dover at 0901 BST and arrived at Sangatte near Calais in France at 1459 BST.
Speaking after his return to Dover, Christian said: “It was tiring. I didn’t think it would be so long.”
He said: “The conditions were really good, it was flat apart from when there were swells from the ferries.”
He added that he had only taken up kayaking recently, on the suggestion of his father Bill.
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