> folks had traveled seven and more days with little sleep before they reached > the sea kayaking leg of the challenge (59 miles of sea kayaking). There were > quite a few finishers. I hope the numerous rescues and lack of skill on > part of the participants doesn't discourage the promoters from including > sea kayaking on open water in the future. You know what struck me as wierd, this was basically a race with 20 hours of paddling, more or less. But with none of the camping, fishing, photography, whatever stuff. Seems to me they should have just crammed the boats full of floatation, leaving no open voids to be filled with water. It seemed to my beginners eye that they were having trouble re-entering because the boats had to much water in them. A question too, why doubles? Aren't singles much easier to recover in, especially for those minimally trained? The other thing that struck me as wierd, of all the teams that should have had time on the water, the Japanese team would be it. Talk about a country that is all coastline. They had lots of guts though, if that had been my nasty ankle, I'd of said no-way are you hauling me up that mountain. *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 23 1998 - 14:29:20 PDT
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