This is a provocative topic. The issue of whether to abandon your paddling partners, and what sorts of conditions or "arrangements" might make such abandonment "ethical" is one which will probably use up a LOT of bandwidth. Maybe it would be useful to distinguish between two kinds of sea kayaking: 1. "Hair" boating: trips or crossings in which the participants are on the edge of the possible, have already committed their souls to their Maker, and are beyond the dictates of we "normal" paddlers. 2. "Normal" boating: what most of us do. Trips with our buddies or maybe with a club group, not looking for an "ultimate challenge." Sometimes we get in over our heads (ooooh, an accidental pun), and all at once we get to apply our "ethics," without having thought about them ahead of time. Some leave; some do not ... I bet 99% of the readers of this list NEVER do any hair boating. (Those who do, please stand up!) So, perhaps, we should agree to accept a ground rule: What "ethics" are apropos of "normal" boating? I'd kind of like to know just what sorts of people and conditions are likely to lead to my abandonment (aside from having eaten ALL the Oreo cookies surreptitiously -- snarf! snarf!). -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR sea kayaker -- and never a hairy one! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 03:55:48 PST
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