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From: <Bluecanoe2_at_aol.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Of hull designs and "old river rocks"
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:59:51 EST
In a message dated 1/5/1999 8:29:05 AM EST, 735769_at_ican.net writes:

<< The practice of labelling anything with one or more of these
 characteristics as a "Greenland kayak" or "Greenland style" kayak
 exemplifies the triumph of advertising over reality.
 
 Cheers,
 John Winters
 Redwing Designs >>

Kind of like a "John Winters Design".  That is simply a kayak with a bunch of
old battered river rocks in it. <grin>

John LeBlanc
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From: John Winters <735769_at_ican.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Of hull designs and "old river rocks"
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:55:19 -0500
John wrote;

>Kind of like a "John Winters Design".  That is simply a kayak with a bunch
of
>old battered river rocks in it. <grin>

Well, yes if you call rocks hand picked from the beaches of the far north
by specially trained Inuit "old battered river rocks" . :-)

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/



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From: <Bluecanoe2_at_aol.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Of hull designs and "old river rocks"
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 23:26:33 EST
In a message dated 1/5/1999 7:30:24 PM EST, 735769_at_ican.net writes:

<< Well, yes if you call rocks hand picked from the beaches of the far north
 by specially trained Inuit "old battered river rocks" . :-)
  >>

Yep!  What they are is what they are!  It is a"new world order".  In with the
cheapies, out with the old fashioned, too costly, inflated "beach boulders".

Tiawanese ballast is here to stay!

John  LeBlanc
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From: John Winters <735769_at_ican.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Of hull designs and "old river rocks"
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 06:57:10 -0500
John wrote;

>
><< Well, yes if you call rocks hand picked from the beaches of the far
north
> by specially trained Inuit "old battered river rocks" . :-)
>  >>
>
>Yep!  What they are is what they are!  It is a"new world order".  In with
the
>cheapies, out with the old fashioned, too costly, inflated "beach
boulders".
>
>Tiawanese ballast is here to stay!

We have other methods of enforcing our patents. (ominous music in
background and fade to black BMW on street with heavily tinted windows.)


Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/




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