The possibilities are endless: Psychology: group dynamics, interpersonal skills (or lack thereof), aberrant behavior under stress. Cooking: Any fool can cook with a home range, food processor, microwave, etc. (and many do). It takes a real chef to turn out bread, pizza, and pie on a camping stove. Hydrodynamics: as reflected in and applied to kayak design Oceanography: self-evident Biology: marine and land based flora and fauna Astronomy: taught under those astonishingly clear skies, away from city light scatter. Mathematics: as used in navigation for triangulation and dead reckoning. Fournier analysis as applied to say, the interplay of standing waves with ocean swell, further complicated by clapitos. Further suggestions for the curriculum of the soon-to-be created Kayak U. are welcome. 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/ ***************************************************************************
Hi Phil T. > >Oceanography: self-evident > you are quite right. lots of possibilities. i would like to go to one for kayak cooking. anyway, the VA Marine Science Consortium offered an oceanography course last spring and probably will again next year. they also offer a biology course and i think a marine geology course. The woman who taught kayaking, ran that one also. The VA MSC is located near NASA Wallops Flight Facility, which is close to Chincoteague Island. Some of the oceanography was related to remote sensing of the ocean to measure wind and rain from space. Some 30 elders visited my rain lab at NASA. the purpose of the rain lab is to develop a method to measure winds in storms at sea where it is raining. presently we can measure either wind or rain over the ocean from space, but there is no way to measure wind where it is raining. i think that we within 5 years we will be able to measure winds in storms. bye bye bliven *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Product Information Department wrote: > > Cooking: Any fool can cook with a home range, food processor, microwave, > etc. (and many do). It takes a real chef to turn out bread, pizza, and pie > on a camping stove. I've done bread, pizza, pie & layer cake in my Outback Oven but I'm no chef. -- 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/ ***************************************************************************
<G> Kayak Cooking 101 The size of your cooking fire should be dictated by the size of the kayak Kayaks are best cooked directly on a nice bed of glowing coals Poly kayaks cook much faster than fibreglass kayaks It's always wiser to cook someone else's kayak A Happy Thanksgiving to All > -----Original Message----- > From: larry bliven [mailto:foxhill_at_shore.intercom.net] > > you are quite right. lots of possibilities. i would like to > go to one for > kayak cooking. > *************************************************************************** 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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