Re: [Paddlewise] Hundred Year Plus Thoughts On Canoeing

At 02:56 01-01-99 EST, Johnlebl_at_aol.com wrote:
>
>I ran across these thoughts today and thought I would share them with you.
>These are not to put down kayaks or kayaking as the kayak was not in great 
>popularity in the United States in 1878.

cool john, no need to apologize... we canoeists are used to being the brunt
of cruel jokes on this list <grin> [humor alert] but the name is _paddle_wise_ 
not _sea_kayak_wise_ ;-)  ;-) but those darned ckayakers, well, rudders and
skegs and all that complicated stuff ;-)

ducking and running fast...

mark


>The Perfect Canoe  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1878 
>
>...canoeing, the most perfect of all possible out-of-door sports...
>
>The canoeist cruises not only on the Sound and the sand-girt 
>bays of the Atlantic coast, but on the wild and rapid rivers of
>the remotest wilderness. His paddle is the key that unlocks 
>the secrets of mountain streams, and admits him to Hesperidean 
>gardens of which other men can only dream. To have lived and 
>loved was considered by a German poet to he a very satisfactory 
>thing, but the man who can say, "I have lived and paddled," has 
>alone known perfect happiness. 


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