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Nigel Foster was born on 17 October, 1952 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, is an English kayaker (born 1952). Discover Nigel Foster's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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Nigel Foster (born 17 October 1952) is an English sea kayaker, kayak designer, instructor and author.
He is the first and youngest paddler to circle Iceland by kayak.
Foster started paddling in Brighton, England when he was 15 in a skin-on-frame kayak.
At Burwash Place Outdoor Activity Centre, Burwash, Sussex, England, Foster learned to handle whitewater, sea kayaking and surf kayaking.
From 1971 to 1972, he was employed there as a "trainee instructor".
He enjoyed the mix of Outdoor Activity instruction and Environmental Studies education and decided to pursue this as a career.
He attended a three-year teachers training course at Redland College, Bristol, and gained classroom experience with two years teaching at a school in Buckinghamshire.
In 1977, after his Iceland circumnavigation, Foster was employed by East Sussex County Council to teach as "instructor/teacher" at Burwash Place.
Later in 1977, he was promoted to deputy warden.
At the same time he continued his explorations with trips that included the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland and a voyage from the English Channel through France down to the Mediterranean.
In 1981, when the center was closed as part of regional cutbacks to education spending, he was redeployed as a schoolteacher, but resigned in summer 1981 to attempt a major kayak expedition – a solo trip from Iqaluit 63.74861°N, -68.51972°W at the SE end of Baffin Island along Frobisher Bay to Resolution Island 61.5°N, -65°W.
He had to cross the 40 mi of open water in the Hudson Strait to reach Lacy Island 60.67556°N, -64.59833°W, northernmost of the Button Islands and part of the Northern Coast of Labrador.
The tidal range in this area may exceed 40 ft while tidal streams may run at more than seven knots.
After fighting the tidal streams in the dark near the Button Islands, suffering frostbitten fingers and loss of gear, Foster eventually gave up on this expedition.
He was able to catch a ride on an oil tanker that happened to have taken shelter behind Killiniq Island 60.36667°N, -64.61667°W.
After his return to England – from 1982 to 1985 – he worked as an instructor at the Plas Menai, National Water Sports Centre, North Wales, primarily instructing kayaking, canoeing, boardsailing, mountaineering, with a little water-skiing, and sailing, gaining the following British Canoe Union (BCU) national qualifications in these fields.
He also served for many years on the BCU Sea Touring Committee, and the BCU Expeditions Sub-Committee.
In 1985, he left for Iceland for six weeks where he helped an expedition group from Cambridge with logistics and by leading the kayaking component.
He returned to start his own kayaking business.
He taught local groups in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Canada and the United States.
The design label "Foster Rowe" emerged for a while as a collaboration with two other top kayak coaches, (Andy Middleton & Ray Rowe) with products such as paddling jackets, personal flotation devices (PFDs) and tow-systems designed for leading edge performance.
Subsequently working alone, the "Nigel Foster" signature paddle blade was released by Nimbus in Canada, and Foster worked in a design/consultant capacity with companies including Liquidlogic, Bending Branches and Extrasport in USA.
(e.g., ExtraSport Tow-system).
The trip was described by the editor of the BCU Canoeing Handbook in 1989 as "arguably the most impressive of any sea kayak adventure in the world."
Late in the summer of 2004, accompanied by Kristin Nelson, he finally completed Baffin Island to Labrador expedition by paddling from Kuujjuaq 58.10667°N, -68.39861°W in Ungava Bay to Nain 56.54222°N, -61.69278°W – a distance of over 675 mi of uninhabited coastline – in which there were numerous encounters with polar bears.
Since 2007, Foster has been the head of research and development at Point65.
In addition to designing products for Point65, he also acts as a spokesperson and assists the company with PR, marketing and special events.
Nigel Foster Sea Kayaking Series six instructional sea kayaking DVDs produced by Starling Productions, Inc..
The "Legend Series" produced by Seaward Kayaks are three expedition-capable sea kayaks designed for easy and fast cruising.
The "Whisky Series" produced by Point65
In 2008, at the 6th Annual Induction Ceremony, Foster was inducted into the International Halls of Fame: Bicycling, Rowing, Canoeing, Kayaking as a Kayaker.