[Paddlewise] New Sponson Discussion Web Page

Hello PaddleWise Friends,

The once-upon-a-time controversial topic of sponsons, which had been 
considered off-limits and/or a dead horse subject because of the... 
uhmmm... communication break-down....  :-)

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is now alive and well through the contributions of some very thoughtful 
dialogue of PaddleWise members.
     

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Ralph made a suggestion that it would be a good idea to gather all the
sponson messages recently contributed here on PaddleWise and include them
on a sponson web page.  This has been completed and is an informative and 
productive discussion about the pros and cons of sponsons.  All original 
comments are left intact.  However, some of the quoting of messages used 
within replies has been trimmed for redundancy.  The discussion also 
developed into some good ideas about alternative methods and additional 
contributions on safety.  The URL is:

htt://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/articles/sponson.html

Thanks to all who contributed and thanks to Dana for being the brave
soul to get the ball rolling on what used to be a taboo subject. By the 
way, I consider the page a work in progress.  :-)

Cheers!

Jackie
http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/

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