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From: John Winters <735769_at_ican.net> subject: Re: [Paddlewise] [CPAKayaker] Sea Kayaking Condition Ratings Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:59:55 -0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:32:49 PDT

Larry Bliven found my post to CPA  on condition ratings.  He now gets a
complimentary bottle of Marynissen Cabernet Franc 1995.  Send me your
address and I will try to UPS it to you.

 Keep in mind that this was a work in progress and not perfect by any
means. It was just an attempt to develop a rational and easily used way to
rate conditions.
>
>this proves that i'm nuts, that disc space is cheap and that
>over a glass of wine, just about anyting is possible.
>
>bbb
>
>----------
>From: John Winters <jwinters_at_onlink.net>
>To: cpakayaker_at_frogmorton.shire.net
>Subject: [CPAKayaker] Sea Kayaking Condition Ratings
>Date: Sunday, July 20, 1997 9:40 AM
>
>I was giving some thought to the discussion on rating conditions for
skills
>and here is a rough rating that may be useful. Under each factor (wind
>speed etc.) I have put a numerical value. When all values are summed that
>can be compared to the required skill rating for that level of paddling
conditions. There may be some fomatting problems (spacing) so it might be
best to put the whole thing in a spread sheet to see how it should look.
>
>Wind  (Beaufort)
>
> 0-2 3 4 5 6
>0 2 4 16 50
>
>Distance from shore
>
>Swimmable 30 min 30 - 60 min 1- 4 hr 4+hours
>0 2 4 16 50
>
>Current
>
>0 - 1 1 - 2 2 - 3 3 - 4 4+
>0 1 2 4 16
>
>Rescue Proximity
>
>2 min 10 min 30 min None
>0 2 4 16
>
>Temperature (sum of air and water temps)
>
>120+ 120 - 110 110 - 100
>0 4 16
>
>Fetch (Nautical miles)
>
>1 or less 5 10 20+
>0 2 4 16
>
>Hazards
>
>Power boat traffic   4
>Night 16
>Shoals and surf 8
>Fog 8
>Extreme weather envir. 50
>
>The scale for Grades (I have arbitrarily used six)  with the numerical
>values might be;
>    1  2      3              4                           5
>                                   6
>0--3--6------13------------25-------------------------50------------------
--
>
>-------------------------------100
>
>Each class is roughly twice the previous. A sum of the parameters tells
one
>what the Grade is. Obviously some individual parameters put one directly
>into Grade 5 or above which I think is appropriate. I think this kind of
>system might make it easy to assign appropriate skills to each Grade. This
>is entirely of the top of my head and I would appreciate your comments.
>
>
>
>
>Cheers
>John Winters
>Redwing Designs
>Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
>http://www.onlink.net/~jwinters
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