With all this talk of ice and icebreakers opening up the Hudson for Klepper foldboats, that causes my mind to drift to warmer thoughts of summer. If you enjoy your canoe only with "the open side up", you have missed some of the more fun ways to enjoy a canoe. Swimming and playing with a canoe is most enjoyable. And surely we all realize the romantic aspects of teh canoe. Some of the more fun things in life can be accomplished with an overturned canoe also. If you have not discovered the air pocket of an overturned canoe, you have missed out on the thrills of your own, private grotto. Talk about echo trail. It is an echo chamber par excellence! Have you ever conned your sweetie to go underwater and come up in the air pocket to "see how cool it is" only to meet across the center thwart and let nature take it's course? If you have not hugged and kissed across the center thwart of an overturned canoe while your head was in the air pocket, then you have just not lived. If you are careful and balance properly, you can stay there long enough for the neighbors on the lake begin to worry about your well being unless they know about the grotto too. It is pretty dark under a wood or aluminum so braile navigation is the rule, fiberglass is a bit enlightening, but a Kevlar gives of a romantic candleglow all it's own. Anybody care to share your favorite lake for "grotto grubbing". By the way, this is NOT recommended on a flowing river! John and Susan LeBlanc P S We been going on 27 summers like this and don't see any need to stop. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Johnlebl_at_aol.com wrote: > > With all this talk of ice and icebreakers opening up the Hudson for Klepper > foldboats, that causes my mind to drift to warmer thoughts of summer. > > If you enjoy your canoe only with "the open side up", you have missed some of > the more fun ways to enjoy a canoe. Swimming and playing with a canoe is most > enjoyable. > > And surely we all realize the romantic aspects of teh canoe. > > Some of the more fun things in life can be accomplished with an overturned > canoe also. If you have not discovered the air pocket of an overturned canoe, > you have missed out on the thrills of your own, private grotto. Talk about > echo trail. It is an echo chamber par excellence! This is not solely the perogative of canoes. It's pretty standard stuff with the Kleppers et al double folders. One of the ways of righting one with minimum water staying in the cockpit is to dive under into that air pocket, get a breather and relax a bit (not too much a la the kittenish LeBlancs :-)), agree which direction you will flip the boat, and voila you have the folding double over with little water in it. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ***************************************************************************
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