Re: [Paddlewise] What do you paddle

On or about 2/19/98 3:06 PM, Bearss, Steve said the following:

>I will say this and then go back to lurking:  I am not going to mention
>the generic Royalex boat I paddle in whitewater and whatever other water
>I can find.  I am extremely jealous of all the boats everyone has
>managed to accumulate and paddle!  What am I doing wrong in life?  I
>know cost is not important but I have grown accustomed to eating and
>sleeping indoors(some of the time).  How do you all do it?  I know now
>my life has been a failure!  Not when I read of all the boats that
>everyone has.  Listening to all the paddling time others seem to find
>has been impressive;  this is even more so.


I can address this...basically it took the combined incomes of me *and* 
my girlfriend over a full year to buy our Nootka. We bought from Ken Fink 
of Poseidon Kayaks and he ordered the boat for us and we paid him over 
the course of the winter while we waited for the boat to arrive. Then, a 
year later, we did the same thing with the Arluk. There's no way we could 
have paid the whole price up front....and he had very good prices.

I too am amazed at the wonderful assortment of high-end boats people 
paddle. Here on the east coast the assortment seems a tad reduced...but 
there could be any number of reasons for that. The cost of living in 
sunny manhattan could be a factor ;-)

-jspeer
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