On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Larry Bliven wrote: >> >>> >>>Here in the Carolinas, guys are using the Necky Looksha II (20'L, 20"W) >>for >>>informal racing. >> >> > >>Down here in Florida at the race at Captive Island, Task did not let any >>boats over 19ft race. All the people with the Looksha II were out of luck ( >>========== >>here on the eastern shore of MD, there are 3 races... April, May, June. >>which have lots of canoe and kayak classes. for kayaks, mens/ladies lengths >>under 14.5 ft, to 18, and above 18 is open to any hot kayak or surf ski you >>care to enter. rumor is that this year will also have senior's classes. >>there could be a couple of 19 ft wave XL's this year. the hot time last >>year was at the first race, where a fellow in a down river boat blew the >>field away... 8 miles in 1hr 1 min. his max stroke rate was supposedly >>something like 210/min... but that might have been his pulse... who knows? >> >> we're old, we're puggy, we paddle. >>it's fun, it's social, we hate to lose. >> >>so if you fell lucky, come on out and join in. >>and if you got races in your area, let us know. >>i've seen web sites for ww kayak racing and marathon canoe racing, but >>marathon kayak races seem to be harder to locate. Where are they and when? >> >>bye bye bliven some of the canoe [marathon type] races out here are adding a kayak class, as SKs become more popular... mark and on the non-paddling side, larry, some years ago, i picked up an expression of "st. bliven's day" meaning, "never" as in "i doubt i'll get it done before st. bliven's day" ... i picked it up from a friend, who got it from a grand parent... is there some kind of truth/history behind that, of which you are aware?? #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/cpr [Colorado Paddlers' Resource] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmskc [Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmcc [Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page] http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark [personal] -- Fortune: "You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do." *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 30 1998 - 07:16:19 PST
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