Dan Hagen wrote: > I was having too much fun. :-) > > > My land-lubbing partner & I naturally assumed you'd encountered the worst <SNIP> > You should know better. I am on great terms with all the requisite sea > nymphs. BTW, to "rescue" me you first would have to find me! It's a > good thing for me that I didn't need rescuing. (That was a nice little > gale, wasn't it?) Quite true. It seems likely that you and I were within 100 yards or less of each other, but could not see each other because of heavy swell and because we were both concentrating hard on staying afloat, without a lot of time to look around. > > If you are in need of assistance in transporting your > > gear, perhaps you could contact a ferry service? > Gee, do I detect a touch of hostility? And to think that I was just > trying to help you out with your experiment! No, no - no hostility at all! I was merely trying to suggest a possible solution. A simple observation of your obviously overloaded craft! :-) > You should add to your list of techniques for measuring volumetric > displacement the use of a computer program--this is how Sea Kayaker > magazine does it. They take some measurements, plug them into a > computer program, and out comes a volume estimate. Oh dear! Adding *that* method to my list would require some actual *research* - which is more than this cowboy bargained for when he signed onto this kayak dude ranch! Paddle on! Craig Olson Bellingham, Washington *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jan 31 1998 - 21:17:47 PST
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