RE: [Paddlewise] Skills: bracing, rolling.

> Ahhh, the finer semantics of paddle sports .....
> In the UK its simple, if you paddle it about then it is a canoe. 
> 
> For those who find this concept a tad difficult to grasp, here is a
> simple
> reminder of what we eccentric British might be gibbering on about:
> 
> Your kayak = canoe (although possibly 'sea canoe', depending on
> morphology)
> Your canoe = canoe  (although a few of the more enlightened might
> refer to
> this type of canoe as a 'canadian')
> Your sit on top =  hmmm, never actually seen one of those funny
> looking
> things, so I don't know what anyone would call them (certainly not
> kayak,
> that's for sure). Look like most of them would make good punts, but I
> expect they would most probably be called canoes.
> 
> Simple ?
> 
> In about an hour I will be going sea canoeing, in my kayak.
> 
	Oh, I get it.  The Alaskan Eskimos have always paddled canoes
while the Seminole Indians in Florida have always paddled Canadian
canoes.  I'm a little fuzzy though, on how the Canadian canoes got all
the way down to Florida.  That would be an interesting story.
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