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.... :-) * ) * * ( ( ( ____ ____ ) ) )) / ) // ( ( /// ||| \\\ |)) ,_ )) \,----||| (o\ (( ) \_L x\w =====^~~~~'~~~~~,,,,,,,>> is now alive and well through the contributions of some very thoughtful dialogue of PaddleWise members. (\(\s /.. \S / ) \S ______ (,,)' \S /~~~~~~ | `.___.--.//~~~~~ ' `, __\ ; ; |.--| /-----'\\ ( \/ // _\\ / // .'--// /_r `' /_r 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/ _ _ _ _ _ \\ / \0/ \ / \0/ \ \\ " " `\ ,sSSs,\, )\w/( ,sSS..)/{) <<..> sSSS_v)/ \ )<*> sSS[(\_]___\ <(_/_o_o_ 'sS[_`-+---+) \----+-------+-------'---`-----\-------------') ~~~~~~~ ~~jf ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~\~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ o \ o \\ o o \\ o o ` (\ o o >jf:-) o (/ o *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
About the URL for the new sponsons discussion web page... uhmmmm... for those of you who haven't figured out my goof-up (I'm going for a record), I left the "p" out of http: so... here it is again in its correct form... (my apologies 8-} http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/articles/sponson.html Jackie _ _ _ _ _ \\ / \0/ \ / \0/ \ \\ " " `\ ,sSSs,\, )\w/( ,sSS..)/{) <<..> sSSS_v)/ \ )<*> sSS[(\_]___\ <(_/_o_o_ 'sS[_`-+---+) \----+-------+-------'---`-----\-------------') ~~~~~~~ ~~jf ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~\~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ o \ o \\ o o \\ o o ` (\ o o >jf:-) o (/ o *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
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