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From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
subject: [Paddlewise] canoeing!!??!! incident
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 08:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
wow ... it was incredible, two canoes destroyed, and a boat trailer 
damaged... i taught a class this last weekend, intro to canoeing. one of  
the students had a trailer full of boats, heading to the lake, down the   
interstate at 75mph, when the axle of a vehicle going the opposite way    
broke. when it did, the wheel of the truck flew off, across the median,   
and [luckily] hit the trailer full of boats. the first boat hit [a royalex]
had a whole bashed through it, and most of the thwarts broken. the wheel 
went up under the second boat [above the first] and ripped out both seats, 
both thwarts, and the portage yoke/thwart, ripping apart both gunwales, 
and removing the end caps...

the towing vehicle was hit in the rear quarter panel... had it hit further
forward, it would have shattered the rear side window, spraying the people
inside with broken glass. had it missed the trailer, it would have hit the
students in the car behind, in a honda civic, which probably would have 
totaled the car, and killed/seriously injured everyone inside...

someone was watching out for them...

mark

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