Re: [Paddlewise] Who am I

I am a canoe nut.  I never feel I get out enough and have a hard time
permitting this to happen.

I have been canoeing since I bought my first |canoe at 17.  I now own, two
fibre glass canoes, one Current Design (since we live on Van. Isl where they
are made) and one S&G Cape Charles I built strictly from the "wooden Boat"
articles, and an other Lake type fibre glass kayak, and an pld plastic white
water boat My brother found along a river.  I recently picked up an old wood
canvass 16 foot canoe in need of a little repair and new canvass.  My main
passion is canoeing, but as I live on the Pacific coast I paddle kayaks.

I have never rolled yet.  I have paddled a little white water in a canoe.  I
am a hopless romantic about this whole thing which my poetry should
indicate.  I drove across Canada two years ago with my 13 year old on a
"Canoe" identity trip..I dipped my paddle in everyb body of water I could
enroute, and deffinately in every province.  My photos did not turn out...I
paddled the atlantic and pasemequadi, and lake supperior, and the St.
Laurence near Brockville.  I visited the Canadian Canoe Museum, where I
touched Don Starcks canoe. I drove through Fredrickton but did not think to
visit the Chestnut Pub.  I drove through Main, and past "old Town"...but did
not stop, I paddled in Algonqui park enroute. 

I completed a Flat water Canoe instructors course with Capilano College but
have only taught cub scouts and my own 
kids.  

The ocean freeks me out....but I go never the less.

I am 42 and am closing in my car port so I can build the "Orange Crate
Canoe"  Something Sterling North writes about in his book "Rascal".  I hope
to build more kayaks and canoes maybe a cedar strip??  And paddles.

I am still holding out for some big paddle trip such as up the inside
passage, or Belize, or some eco-trip???.  In the mean time I paddle smaller
areas.  We recently (summer) did the Secritary Island and camped on Wallace
after reading the book.  Blackfish sound/robson bight is high on the list of
next places right now.

I love everything canoeing.  books and vids, and mags, and talk...and touch
and feel and wood smell...and history, 

Besides that I am a Environmental Consultants, (hazardous building
materials) Self employed working Vancouver Island, my wife Penny is a
Paramedic, and my boys 12, and 14 are great, but less interested in
paddleing as dad.  
F. Bosma Consulting
Fred Bosma
1165 Briarwood Drive
Cobble Hill B.C.
V0R 1L0

Phone: 250-743-6061
Fax: 250-743-6051

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