>How bout all the fun us folks in Texas and Florida get to have while >yall are all shivering and hiding from the snow? And Red Snapper >season will open back up sometime in January I think... I've been >waiting for fall/winter to get here for close to 4 months. > >Richard Walker >Houston, TX > Richard, Though it definitely is colder, and wetter, with shorter days during the winter here in the Specific Northwest, the ocean never comes close to freezing. And my motto is "As long as the paddle doesn't break on the surface of the water, it's paddling season." Cheers Philip T. **************************************** Mountain Equipment Co-op 1655 West 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J 1K1 Tel: 640-732-1989 Fax: 604-731-6483 email: pid_at_mec.ca Visit our website at: http://www.mec.ca ***************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
> Though it definitely is colder, and wetter, with shorter days during the > winter here in the Specific Northwest, the ocean never comes close to > freezing. And my motto is "As long as the paddle doesn't break on the > surface of the water, it's paddling season." > > Philip T. > I haven't broken my paddle yet but I have sure made a mess of the blade edges. I need a paddle designed for crossing ice too thin & soft to walk on but too hard for a paddle to penetrate. I also need ski wax on the bottom of my boat for ice crossings. -- Lloyd Bowles The Mad Canoeist "Keep the open side up!" http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/clearstreets/358/index.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
You'll find such devices in some ww paddlers' rescue kits. They are pick/grapples which bolt onto the edge of the blade. Richard Culpeper www.geocities.com/~culpeper Lloyd Bowles wrote: > > Though it definitely is colder, and wetter, with shorter days during the > > winter here in the Specific Northwest, the ocean never comes close to > > freezing. And my motto is "As long as the paddle doesn't break on the > > surface of the water, it's paddling season." > > > > Philip T. > > > I haven't broken my paddle yet but I have sure made a mess of the blade > edges. I need a paddle designed for crossing ice too thin & soft to walk > on but too hard for a paddle to penetrate. I also need ski wax on the > bottom of my boat for ice crossings. > > -- > Lloyd Bowles > The Mad Canoeist > "Keep the open side up!" > http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/clearstreets/358/index.html > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Richard Culpeper wrote: > > > > > > I haven't broken my paddle yet but I have sure made a mess of the blade > > edges. I need a paddle designed for crossing ice too thin & soft to walk > > on but too hard for a paddle to penetrate. I also need ski wax on the > > bottom of my boat for ice crossings. > > > > -- Here in the Northern Chesapeake Bay area, I use a pair of cut-off ski poles (18ish inches). They help me in the silt when I mis-judge an outgoing tide and work perfectly for helping my flat bottomed CLC Mill Creek accross the occasional ice we get on our feeder creeks - which thousands of incoming Canada geese this weekend are reminding me is not far away :-) David Gulick > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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