Re: [Paddlewise] kayak sails

Ari, Dave and others that replied,

Thanks for pointing out the source of the ruckus.  I am sorry if my
posting may have seemed comercial.  I really thought I had done a decent
job of avoiding that impression.  This list is a recreational thing for
me and it did not occur to me that so many would see my business behind
the writer.  I fully understand your timophobia and did not mean to stir
the fire.

> It might be that there was something very provoking the way Mark 
> wrote about provoking ;-)  I wonder if there is now a tribe of 
> sailing kayakers, sharpening their knives after provocation by Doug 
> and me .

Ari, my comments about being non evangelistic and being provoked were a
lame attempt at some tounge in cheek humor, I was trying to lighten up
what I felt was perhaps an overly serious post.  I am sure I get too
sensitive some times as well and my weakness is people I perceive to be
saying that what I am doing can't be done.  I have spent the last 25
years or so a little outside of the mainstream and certain types of
comments have come to act as a trigger.  If my reply to Doug was too
strong, I apologize.  I will try to control my impulses.  I am certainly
not sharpening my blunt point River Shorty knife.  Someone more
articulate than myself weighed in, I think it was Mark Zen, and said
that they felt I was "defending the sailing philosophy".  I'll take that
as my defense.  Before I was a sailmaker, I was a sailor.  Hopefully
after I retire, I will be a sailor. The one who subscibes to this list
is the sailor not the sailmaker.  I really enjoy kayaking and kayak
sailing so others be fore warned, I am honor bound to defend the sailing
philosophy.  Darn, my soap box has slid out again.

I promise to do my best to keep this list non-comercial and peaceful. 
If I don't, I feel confident someone will help me back to the path.

Good kayaking and canoeing to you all

Mark
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