On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Gregg Bolton wrote: >> >>On 11 Mar 98, John Winters wrote: >> >>> This is also true and a good reason for people doing longish trips >>> to consider folding boats over the typical solo hard-shell or to use >>> a smallish hard-shell tandem for solo long distance paddling. In >>> either case, the need for a low CG and possibly self righting is >>> important. >> >> Last season, Necky had a promotional peicce that they had at a >>couple of the symposiums I attended. In it they features several >>"Expedition" type paddlers (of cource using necky boats). One >>feature was about a guy who paddled a Necky double - COMPLETLY >>outfitted - from somwhere on te West coast to Hawaii. I mean this >>guy had desalination units, and a list of other gadgets that I can't >>remember all of. He Made it, and it was an interesting story of a >>VERY long SOLO open water crossing. >> >> I wish I could find the brochure, but perhaps some of the >>Outfitters out there might have it around still, or someone else >>might remember the story and could better tell the story... >>Gregg Bolton would that have been ed gillette [sp??]... he's got a shop in SoCal, if i remember right [i'm newish to the SK world!!] mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/cpr [Colorado Paddlers' Resource] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmskc [Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmcc [Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page] http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark [personal] -- Fortune: Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- A. Lincoln *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Mar 11 1998 - 07:35:54 PST
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