Tomckayak_at_aol.com wrote: > Judgment, Skill and Luck keep you alive As I look at the last three items, Luck, I am reminded of what Dr. Hannes Lindemann said in my interview with him a half dozen years ago. He indicated that one of thing he had going for him on his trans-Atlantic voyage in a Klepper was luck. Then he went on to talk about the origin of the word luck saying it came from the chaulking added to wooden boats, gluck in German. If a boat was well chaulked it was said to have good gluck. So then Lindemann added. "So you see...you make your own luck." ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 09 1998 - 10:19:18 PST
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